Python Arduino Serial Port Text Communication

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Arduino tutorial – a basic and easy to understand tutorial on programming the arduino Python port of arduino-serial.c – By John Wiseman from which I based my program. Original arduino-serial.c – by Tod E. Sparkfun – Here is a good place to purchase ardunio and other electronics parts. Try coolcomponents if your from the uk like me. Another possibility is you have Serial monitor opened in Arduino IDE on same port. Then your Python program can't use this port at same time, so you should close the Serial monitor first.

I'm trying to 'ping pong' info back and forth between some python code and arduino code.I want to send two setpoints to the arduino code periodically (for instance on the minute), read them on arduino & update variables then send status info from arduino back to python periodically (such as on the :30 second). Eventually python will be sending and pulling info from a mySQL db (later dev).

Right now I can't get the info to bounce back and forth reliably. I haven't found anything close to this in the searches and everything I've tried to modify isn't working. Closest I have is this (and it doesn't actually switch back and forth between send and receive):

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Serial Communication: To establish a serial communication between two devices, the devices should be connected as shown below. Because the data sent from the device 1 should be received in the device 2 and vice versa. So in Arduino, we shall make pin 5 as Rx and pin 6 as Tx using the SoftwareSerial library. Software Serial Example Arduino and Genuino boards have built in support for serial communication on pins 0 and 1, but what if you need more serial ports? The SoftwareSerial Library has been developed to allow serial communication to take place on the other digital pins of your boards, using software to replicate the functionality of the. This tutorial will focus on Arduino-Arduino communication through the serial ports (RX and TX). The schematic below shows how to connect the two Arduinos together. This shows two Unos, but if a Mega is used, it can be connected to any of the Serial ports on the Mega as long as that is accounted for in the code.

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All I end up getting is the same values repeated (not what was actually sent, not sure if its a string or byte issue) and nothing back to the python script. Any help or ideas are greatly appreciated. Thanks.

EDIT: Modified code to what I'm currently running as suggested below. Arduino is receiving fine and serial communication verified by minicom. But python script still prints a blank line after 'Message from arduino: '.

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You shouldn't be closing the serial port in Python between writing and reading. There is a chance that the port is still closed when the Arduino responds, in which case the data will be lost.

The Python Serial.read function only returns a single byte by default, so you need to either call it in a loop or wait for the data to be transmitted and then read the whole buffer.

On the Arduino side, you should consider what happens in your loop function when no data is available.

Instead, wait at the start of the loop function until data arrives:

EDIT 2

Here's what I get when interfacing with your Arduino app from Python:

So that seems to be working fine.

In testing your Python script, it seems the problem is that the Arduino resets when you open the serial port (at least my Uno does), so you need to wait a few seconds for it to start up. You are also only reading a single line for the response, so I've fixed that in the code below also:

Python Arduino Serial Port Text Communication

Here's the output of the above now:

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First you have to install a module call Serial. To do that go to the folder call Scripts which is located in python installed folder. If you are using Python 3 version it's normally located in location below,

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Once you open that folder right click on that folder with shift key. Then click on 'open command window here'. After that cmd will pop up. Write the below code in that cmd window,

and press enter.after that PySerial module will be installed. Remember to install the module u must have an INTERNET connection.

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after successfully installed the module open python IDLE and write down the bellow code and run it.

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