I have often found the standard Arduino serial viewer to be frustrating. Quite often I will be sending a stream of data over the serial port for various purposes such as de-bugging or minitoring. If these values change quite a lot it can be a real pain watching the numbers stream up the screen, so I decided to have a crack at writing some simple serial software in c#. I have never written an app from scratch before so please be paitent.
The premis is simple. If you output the data from your Arduino delimited by, say, a comma and line by line then the serial viewer will display those delimited values in an easier to read format.
Just add a couple of fields (time and loops, in my screen shot) and set the delimiter. Connect to the Arduino then click Run.
Here is the program. Please let me know what you think.
The Arduino is an open-source platform. You should, in that context, share your source, not just the executable.
The logical next step is to be able to plot the data, not just see how the values change. Without the source code, no one else can help with adding that option/feature.
Send each value with Serial.print(<your value here>); followed by sending a comma as a delimiter with Serial.print(",");
When you have sent all the values you want to send during a loop then finish by sending a new line character with Serial.println();
The following should work
int loop = 0;
void setup()
{
Serial.begin(9600); //start the serial connection
}
void loop()
{
Serial.print(millis()); //output the time in milliseconds since boot
Serial.print(","); //output a comma as a delimiter
Serial.println(loop); //output the value of 'loop'
loop++; //increment the value of 'loop'
}
