Arduino Ide Serial Monitor Download
Akiko Fleischer
A major advantage with having the Serial Monitor integrated with the editor is the possibility to have multiple monitors open simultaneously. In the old editor, when changing the port/board, it changed across all windows. In addition, we were limited to one Serial Monitor window, an obstacle that the IDE 2 removes.
Hi,
I would like to copy and paste a colomn of data displayed on the serial monitor (longer than my screen), and it doesn't really work. Selecting the first lines and then scrolling down to the bottom lines makes it "forget" the first lines in the selection.
It would be much easier than using Processing or Rstudio, so I would like to do it that way.
Any idea?
Thanks
It does work well, but you have to disable auto scrolling (or be very nimble). ctrl+A ctrl+c. Make sure the focus is on the serial monitor screen. Paste into Excel or Word or whatever. I have use it a lot for getting logged data for analysis.
Hi,
On the screen of the serial monitor there is a control box
autoscroll
When checked, when the screen is "full", it automatically moves up, and when it receives a new line it actually erases the selection for copying the content.
But if you uncheck this option, you can select and keep selected the value and copy.
Pay attention, because when you reach the end of the screen, the line will not move,
but using the mouse you can make the movement if what you want to copy is already off the screen.
Is there any way to shut off the auto-scrolling feature in the serial monitor? I would like to copy the serial monitor messages but I am unable to copy (CTRL-A) the serial monitor when it is scrolling, I'm running arduino IDE version 2.02 on a Windows 10 64-bit machine.
Hi again,
I am coming back to this issue. I haven't found any way to copy-paste the serial monitor output easily.
If you select a long column of output data, and start scrolling down, your selection loses what is no longer on the screen. So it seems like you have to go little by little, making it a long and annoying process.
Disabling the Autoscroll Toggle doesn't change anything for me.
@ptillisch, the github thread doesn't seem to make progress, unfortunately...
I'm running 2.0.3 and confirm it's not working. Even ctrl-a doesn't work - that only highlights the code section even if focus was on the serial monitor originally. No matter how much I highlight with the mouse, and hit ctrl-c, I only get 32 lines.
Also, I am never able to connect to the serial monitor, which always reports
"Timeout. The IDE has not received the 'success' message from the monitor after successfully connecting to it. Could not connect to COM3 serial port."
I have tried:
uninstalling and reinstalling IDE
restarting the PC
pressing the reset button on the UNO
unplugging and plugging in the UNO - temporarily can upload but no serial monitor - as before
using a different USB cable
checking device manager in Windows. The driver is dated 2015 and Windows reports the device is working normally on COM3.
I have been unable to find any updated driver on the Web.
The UNO chip is ATMEL MEGA16U2 (printed on the chip itself)
Mostly resolved!
Searching for VCP in Process Explorer produced a long list, among which were three programmes, all of which were interfering. One was for Garmin devices, one for Spyder4 monitor colour calibration and one for UPS signalling to enable automated shutdown on power failure.
After removing all three, I am consistently able to upload sketches.
It is still only possible to upload sketches with the serial monitor closed - uploading with serial monitor displayed results in the access denied message, then I have to restart Arduino IDE before it will communicate with the Uno again.
When I open the serial monitor I obtain the image at the bottom of the post. I have triple checked that the baud matches in both the sketch and the Serial Monitor and can find no obvious problems with the installation. I am working on Windows 10 with Arduino IDE 1.6.9. This is my first experience with any kind of device like this and any insights would be greatly appreciated.
In most cases, unreadable output on a serial monitor is because the baud rate configured on the device does not match the baud rate configured on the serial monitor. They must be set to the same number, i.e. 9600, 115200, etc.
Have you disabled the external clock and set the internal one by accident?
Is there a mismatch between the baud rate you set in the Arduino and the rate that works with the serial monitor, in an integer ratio like 2:1 or 1:2?
My sensor data is measured and displayed correctly. The only problem I have is that most of the time I have to reset the Arduino for it to work. If I don't I get all kind of symbols on the serial monitor or It won't display any data at all.
"Arduino IDE has a feature that can be a great help in debugging sketches"
This feature itself is not always working and relying on it to debug a sketch is not practical, forget a bout single LED demos sketches and few line sketches and try a real few hundred line sketch, you quickly see the first bug seem to be Serial monitor freeze. Serial monitor is not a reliable software itself, trying to troubleshoot the code with it, just compound the problem.
I found a problem on the MEGA 2650 in that the serial monitor seems to the 16 MSBs when printing an unsigned long (unit32_t). I've tried various methods and always same, whereas on a ProMini the results are correct.
Greetings, I set it up as indicated in the topic, but it shows not correctly and not always ... in the end I decided to use third-party software. -serial-port.org/products/serialmonitor/ a good job with monitoring.
With arduino-cli I can also compile and upload successfully as the blinky LED can be seen, but I cannot view the serial monitor. The serial monitor is blank. I wonder if I should add certain flags or arguments to the compile command.
I am ok to keep it as Serial.begin(9600);. Wondering how can I enable the CDC USB on Boot in the arduino-cli command because in the Arduino IDE when I disable it, I also cannot view the serial monitor. Not sure, if this is the root cause.
Hi @ptillisch , I had the same issue as @sayanee , so i downloaded arduino-cli for windows , tha i had never used, compiled a ble sketch for esp32 board ( it takes lots of time as the arduino gui) , and if i compile the sketch with the suggested ```CDCOnBoot=cdc option , it works fine and i can see serial logs on a terminal .
However i wonder about this : is it possible to get the same result using the arduino ide ? WIth IDE i can compile and upload the sketch , it works exept the pitfall of usb serial interface not working. Any idea ?
Not directly related to your question, but something that might be interesting to those reading this thread: The recently released Arduino IDE 2.1.0 has a nice enhancement of printing the FQBN of the board in the verbose compilation output. Although it is not necessary to know the FQBN when using Arduino IDE by itself, it can be useful when you want to replicate the same board configuration in your Arduino CLI commands as you had when compiling in Arduino IDE. Rather than having to look through the arduino-cli board listall and arduino-cli board details output to understand how to compose the correct FQBN, you can simply copy/paste the FQBN from the Arduino IDE "Output" panel.
Funny how posting to a forum causes you to find the solution.
I was poking around the Arduino IDE and, just for grins, selected Tools > Fix Encoding & Reload.
And now the serial monitor shows the expected string.
If using different baud rate in sketch and serial monitor is needed, your board definition's speed and the actual speed the board is running at are different - in your case, likely you've got 8MHz board selected for a 16MHz board (the only one where this will happen with "standard" boards whilest still being able to upload, at least within standard AVR boards, would be thinking you have 8MHz pro mini, when you actually have a 16MHz one (it's pretty common to get the wrong one when you order pro mini's from china).
Any chance it's really opening the window "off screen"? Maybe your system has multiple monitors, or had 2+ monitors at some point and still is configured for a virtual desktop larger than your primary monitor?
In your last post, you can see two ?? square things ??... that tells me that the BAUD RATE on your Serial Monitor is not the same as your Serial.begin(9600) statement. Both should be the same. Look in the lower-right portion of your serial monitor (it is off the screen right now) for a button to click and change to 9600.
Hello, I am new to this and am trying to read data on the serial monitor. I have installed mavlink V1 and have tried different variations of this code. My teensyduino is connected to the PX4 cube through the telem2 port and then the teensyduino is connected to my laptop through the USB connection.
But when I clicked the serial monitor button, I saw no serial monitor window pop up. I knew it worked in the past when I was going through the tutorials (e.g., temperature) but that was some months past. I did try to update to latest version of the IDE.
Appears to be a multi-monitor problem / 'remembered position' issue as the other person suggested. But alas I have come to you aid. Lol jkjk probably fixed it for now but there are a few of these same posts and not all of them are answered.
2A. For Simplicity, after making the Serial Monitor the active window / process, try hitting 'WINKEY + LEFT' or 'WINKEY + RIGHT' ----------- (WIN 7 AND ABOVE) This is a neat little trick to fit the window to corners of your screen / navigate through monitors [check out WINKEY + UP/DOWN when you finish up]
IF #2A DOESN'T WORK
2B. 'ALT + TAB' release. Single press of 'm' on the keyboard then 'Enter'. Proceed to move the monitor back on screen with the arrow keys. ---- here we are selecting the alternative menu and selecting 'm'ove from the list; hence your single 'm' key press..