Serial Monitor

The Arduino IDE comes with a serial monitor. You can use this device and submit requests to the device to pull latest time-series data from our sensors.

Example output of Serial Monitor

Python

The following instructions will demonstrate how to communicate with the device.

1. Run the following commands to setup our script which will communicate with the Arduino computer.

   $ cd ~/
   $ virtualenv -p python3.7 env
   $ source env/bin/activate
   $ pip install pyserial
   $ cat > arduino_reader.py
   

2. Copy and paste this code.

   ```python
   from serial import Serial
   from time import sleep
   
   port = "/dev/ttyACM0" # PLEASE CHANGE THIS TO WHATEVER PORT YOUR DEVICE IS ON.
   ser = Serial(port, 9600, timeout=None)
   
   sleep(2) # wait for Arduino
   
   while True:
       byte_data = ser.readline()
       sleep(2);
       print(byte_data) # LEARN https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24074914/python-to-arduino-serial-read-write
   
       string_data = byte_data.decode('UTF-8') # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6269765/what-does-the-b-character-do-in-front-of-a-string-literal#6273618
       print(string_data)
   ```
   

3. Run the script!

   $ python3 arduino_reader.py
   

4. You should get running code. For more information please visit this link for more details.