Using the Serial Monitor for sending commands

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I am trying to use the Serial Monitor to send commands via my RF Link (Ciseco SRF). The RF seems to work great.

My problem is that the Serial Monitor assumes ASCII, and I want to use binary, or at least utilize ASCII characters to simulate the binary portion of my message.

For example, I want to send a binary 00000100, so the ASCII EOT character is 00000100 (or HEX 04). But how do I send an EOT character using the Serial Monitor?

Thanks,

Dean

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My problem is that the Serial Monitor assumes ASCII, and I want to use binary

You are not required to use that particular application. If you choose to, you need to accept that fact that it ONLY deals with ASCII data.

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Try:
realterm or anything else you can google up.

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The below test code might do something close to what you are trying to do.

//zoomkat serial echo test 7-31-2011

char c; // incoming serial data

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);	// set serial port at desired value
  Serial.println("serial echo test 0021"); // echo test
  Serial.println();
}

void loop() {

  if (Serial.available() > 0) { // check for serial buffer input
    c = Serial.read(); // read the incoming byte:

    Serial.println(c); // print the input
    //select an output format
    Serial.println(c, DEC);  // print as an ASCII-encoded decimal
    Serial.println(c, HEX);  // print as an ASCII-encoded hexadecimal
    Serial.println(c, OCT);  // print as an ASCII-encoded octal
    Serial.println(c, BIN);  // print as an ASCII-encoded binary
    Serial.println();
    //Serial.println(); // print new line for better reading
  }
}
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Farmboy:
I am trying to use the Serial Monitor to send commands

I want to use binary, or at least utilize ASCII characters to simulate the binary portion of my message.

Why send the commands in binary?

I'm not against sending binary data but if I wanted to do that I would write a PC program using Python, for example.

If you just want to send different commands the upper and lower case characters provide 52 options. The Arduino can easily use a look-up table to figure out the binary value associated with a character.

...R

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I want to use binary

Are you a robot?

or at least utilize ASCII characters to simulate the binary portion of my message.

Now you've lost me.