SoftwareSerial Arduino

[ignaciomorac]

Hello friends, I am creating a code for a sensor that uses an Arduino as a microcontroller, I am going to make three sensors and I want all three to start sending me data, when I sent them the signal to do so from the computer.

For that I thought that simply putting:

void loop() {

  delay (500);
  if ((XBeeSerial.read()) != -1);{
    Serial.println(XBeeSerial.read());

It was going to work, but no. I printed the value to see if it gave me -1 and indeed it gave me -1 but I was very surprised. Since I put an IF conditional for it to be fulfilled. But it seems not.

The most interesting thing was to see that after the code continued running like this in a loop, I began to notice that each time it printed a different value. Which I feel is possible since it may be the transmit Status from an ACK signal sent by the xbee from the computer indicating that the message was delivered.

I don't really know why it's wrong, and I don't know why it doesn't respect the conditional.

This is the full code.

//Librerias
#include <SafeString.h>
#include <Wire.h>
#include <TimeLib.h>
#include <DS1307RTC.h>
#include <SoftwareSerial.h>
//#include <SPI.h> 
//#include <SD.h>

//DataLogeer
//const int chipSelect = 4;

//Xbee
SoftwareSerial XBeeSerial(2, 3); //(Rx, TX)

//ADC
//ADC--> const int ADC = A0;
//float voltPanel;
//TRAMAS
byte packet1[] = {0x7E, 0x00, 0x21}; //Byte delimitador y Longitud de trama // variar por el voltaje
byte packet2[] = {0x10, 0x01, 0x00, 0x13, 0xA2, 0x00, 0x40, 0xD7, 0xAE, 0xAD, 0xFF, 0xFE, 0x00, 0x00,}; //Id de trama, tipo de trama, direccion de 64bits, opciones y numero de brincos.
// 00:11:46 05/01/2021 == 19 chars
byte fullPacket[3 + 14 + 19 + 1];// (Delimitador + longitud )+ (tipo + direccion)+ voltage + fecha + checksum = 37
                                //  [3 + 14 + 4 + 19 + 1]
char buffer [25]; // 19 la fecha  +1  '\0', 25 bytes de tamaño // cambiar porque hay voltaje
#define DEBUG SafeString::Output

//Setup
void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);
  delay(100);
  XBeeSerial.begin(9600);
  delay(100);
 // if (!SD.begin(4)) {
   // Serial.println("initialization failed!");
    //while (1);
  //}
  //Serial.println("initialization done.");
  delay(2000);
  Serial.println();
  Serial.println("MACHOTE DEL CODIGO PRINCIPAL");
  Serial.println("-------------------");

  SafeString::setOutput(Serial);
  }

void loop() {
  delay (500);
  if ((XBeeSerial.read()) != -1);{
    Serial.println(XBeeSerial.read());
    
    tmElements_t tm;
    if (RTC.read(tm)) {
      sprintf(buffer, ",%02d:%02d:%02d,%02d/%02d/%04d", tm.Hour , tm.Minute, tm.Second, tm.Day, tm.Month, tmYearToCalendar(tm.Year));
      Serial.println(buffer); // con este print compruebo que la fecha y hora

    //Extraer Voltaje de ADC
    //Convertir voltaje a Valor REAL
    //voltPanel= ((float(analogRead(ADC))*5.0/1023)*3+25, 2);  //Aqui multiplico por 5 y divido por 1023, 
    //para tener el voltaje que lee el ADC y multiplo por 3 y umo 25, para dar el voltaje real.
    //convertir voltPanel a HEX 
    //Ingresar este valor a los datos, parte de la horayfecha (xx.xx,00:11:46,05/01/2021)
    
    //Actualizar length y las tramas de arriba.
    //{0x7E, 0x00, 0x27}; //0x27 19 caracteres de fecha + 4bytes del flotante + espacio

    //DATALOGGER 
    
    // build fullpacket
    size_t idx = 0;
    memmove(fullPacket + idx, packet1, sizeof(packet1));
    idx += sizeof(packet1);
    memmove(fullPacket + idx, packet2, sizeof(packet2));
    idx += sizeof(packet2);
    if ((idx + 19 + 1) > sizeof(fullPacket)) {
      // Si el tamaño es incorrecto
      Serial.println(F("fullPacket size wrong"));
    }
    
    memmove(fullPacket + idx, buffer, 19);
    idx += 19;
    // dejar un byte para el cheksum
    if ((idx + 1) != sizeof(fullPacket)) {
      // fullPacket size wrong
      Serial.println(F("fullPacket size wrong"));
    }

    int chksum = 0;
    for (size_t i = 3; i < idx; i++) { // comienza despues del tamaño dela trama
      chksum += fullPacket[i]; // comienza a sumar 
    }
    chksum = (0xff & chksum);
    chksum = (0xff) & (0xff - chksum);
    fullPacket[idx] = chksum;
    idx++; // El tamao total de la trama
    if (idx != sizeof(fullPacket)) {
      Serial.println(F("fullPacket size error"));
    }

    // Imprime el paquete
    size_t printSize = idx * 3; // ..<space>
    cSF(sfPacket, printSize);
    for (size_t i = 0; i < idx; i++) {
      //sfPacket += "0x";
      if (fullPacket[i] < 16) {
        sfPacket += '0'; 
      }
      sfPacket.print(fullPacket[i], HEX); 
      sfPacket.print(' ');
    }
    Serial.println(sfPacket);

    XBeeSerial.write (fullPacket , idx);   
    delay(5000);
    }
  }    
}
    
void print2digits(int number) {
  if (number >= 0 && number < 10) {
    Serial.write('0');
  }
  Serial.print(number);
}

[sterretje]

Once you read a byte from serial, it is gone.

Either read the character into a variable and test the variable if it's -1 or use XbeeSerial.available() to check if there is something to read.

[ignaciomorac]

Thanks Is working perfectly.

Serial.println("Espera a recibir señal");
  while (XBeeSerial.available()) {
    Rx_nextByte = XBeeSerial.read();
    if (Rx_nextByte == START_DELIMITER){
      Serial.println("Señal recibida");