Serial Plotter examples

[pierrotm777]

I see a new 'Serial Plotter' feature that arrive with the future IDE 1.6.6 .

Can you give us some examples for it use ?

Thanks

[ffissore]

There is an example sketch at #2177 (comment)
It would be nice if you could provide an example good enough to be included in the standard set

[pierrotm777]

It's fantastic new feature .
I cool option would be to add several plots possibility in same time with different colours :-)

[ffissore]

/cc @henningpohl in case he wants to jump in

[henningpohl]

I added a basic example here: henningpohl/Arduino@0f395d8

It is a bit odd though, as the example is not really showing off capabilities of the Arduino, but instead of the IDE. Would you want a PR for this anyway?

As for extension options: certainly multiple graphs, each with a different color, would be a clear way for this to move. There's a bit of a trade-off in that this could get overly complicated if not kept in check. For example, somebody might want to add spectrograms, logic analysis, or signal smoothing. I personally don't think that's what this should become. But hey, at the end that's really up to the people using this.

[ffissore]

Thank you @henningpohl, we are reviewing it

[ffissore]

@henningpohl instead of a new example, we prefer enriching AnalogReadSerial description. See d9b3a86

[ffissore]

And ReadAnalogVoltage. See 974fef1

[q2dg]

Maybe it should be noticed in these comments that Serial Plotter only works with Serial.println() -because it uses \n as value delimiter, does it?- but not with Serial.print() or Serial.write().

[q2dg]

@henningpohl The idea of showing multiple graphs...is finally discarded?