Python Arduino Serial Port Text Communication App

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Here i am going to show you 3 working examples on how to read Arduino serial ports with windows. You are going to need following programs / tools:

  • Arduino UNO
  • Windows 7
  • Python + Pyserial

Installing Python + Pyserial to Windows

Apps

First you have ton install Python on your computer. This is just typical install with no big deal. When you have installed Python you may want to restart your computer. If you are not sure if your install was succesfull you can open your command prompt and type python or go to location where you installed python and run Python.exe. If everything works correctly your command prompt should look something like this:

After installing Python you can download Pyserial. Unzip pyserial to folder where you installed python and says lib. For me example to location was:

c:Python27Libpyserial-2.6

After you have unzipped pyserial, you should start command prompt and go to location above. In there you can find setup.py named file, which you cn run by typing:

python setup.py install

Now you have installed Python + Pyserial

Reading Arduino serial ports with Pyserial

First code is basic ”Hello world” with arduino and python
Code for Arduino:

Hello world with serial ports

Arduino code:

To determine what serial port your Arduino is connected to look at the bottom right corner of your Arduino sketch. Whatever that is should be what is in quotes in line 3 of the Python program. You can also change the baud rate in line 3 of the Python program and line 2 of the Arduino program as long as they stay the same. Simply look in the bottom right corner of your Arduino IDE, and you will see some text containing the COM Port number. We will use this to initiate our Python serial connection, like so: arduino = serial.Serial('COM1', 115200, timeout=.1).

Arduino Serial Port Monitor Software

Next code for python: (Note that WordPress might break Pythons code blocks)

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Python with Arduino LESSON 17: Sending and Receiving Data Over Ethernet April 6, 2015 admin 24 Comments This circuit contains an Arduino Nano and Pressure Sensor Communicating over Ethernet. I am testing this simple arduino code in python but it works in arduino serial not in python. User defines the number of blinks on the led. Arduino Sketch works with Serial Monitor but not with pyserial. In your python script when you open serial port to arduino, this will surely reset arduino board; that will last less than 2s. Everytime the serial port is opened the Arduino will reset so the PC code must open the serial port and keep it open until it is completely finished with the Arduino. This Python - Arduino demo illustrates the idea and should be easily implemented in C++.

Arduino read data from Python

Arduino read data when user type something and prints it out byte by byte.

Arduino code:

Python code:

Arduino control led

Controlling 1 led light with arduino and pyserial by typing 0 or 1 to turn led on and off

Code for arduino:

Code for python:

Reading data from sensor and printing that to computer

In this code we are going to use unknown light sensor for arduino. You can basically use any type of sensor you want since the principle is the same.

Code for arduino:

Code for python:

Sources:

  • Tero karvinen – HAAGA-HELIA teacher (http://terokarvinen.com/)
Mainokset
Active7 months ago

I am having some trouble writing serial data to an Arduino Uno using pyserial on a 64 bit Windows 10 machine with Python 3.7.

Here is the stripped down version of the code I am testing:

SerialEcho.ino

SerialEcho.py

The issue I have when I run the above code is that I don't get an echo back from the Arduino. I do see the Connected print statement as well as the characters of erial connected come through (as expected) but no 5s or 6s and the built in LED does not turn on.

I know there isn't an issue with the Arduino or its connection to the computer because it works just fine using the Arduino Serial monitor (all characters echo back just fine and the built in led turns on after receiving the first character).

If I use a non-zero value for writeTimeout I get the following traceback as soon as the com.write runs (even if I set writeTimeout to 1000):

I also get the same traceback if I attempt to send a character to the arduino program using miniterm.

I have commented in SerialEcho.py a couple of other changes I have tried which haven't solved the issue.

I have come across some posts suggesting issues with different versions of pyserial on windows. I have tried the above on most combinations of Python 3.7 32bit and 64bit along with pyserial 3.4, 2.7 and 2.6 but none work for me.

I have come across many different posts here on Stack Overflow as well as on the Arduino forums while trying to solve this issue but either there is no answer or the answer doesn't work for me. I have tried my best to cover all the answers I have found.

Thanks

Edit

I have modified the above test code to include more changes that haven't fixed the issue.

JamesStewy
JamesStewyJamesStewy

1 Answer

I had issue with arduino and python too, I just give you some tips, first add a delay after arduino connection, So:

This is my send function which will send with a new line character:

Pyserial To Arduino

and These are my read and read line functions:

Python Arduino Serial Port Text Communication App Download

And this is my loop:

Hope this will help.

Pourya Pourya
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