[PD] comport input

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

We welcome updates to help patches. Just submit them to the patch  
tracker.  I think the comport patch could defintitely be improved and  
exmaples are always useful.  I think you are getting confused by what  
ASCII text is on the underlying level.  ASCII is a way of  
interpretting byte values (0-255) as letters/characters.  serial ports  
work with byte values (0-255), then you decide how they should be  
interpreted (numeric values, ASCII, UTF-8, etc).

.hc

On Oct 15, 2010, at 8:21 AM, Felix Obée wrote:

> hi together,
>
> first of all: thanks for the help so far! i find this list extremely  
> useful and patient with noobieness which is very motivating.
>
> i want to communicate with my arduino via [comport] which has worked  
> out as far as sending him something and getting it back. the  
> arduinopuredatamessagesystem [1] was very helpful with that. maybe  
> it could be integrated in some helpfile.
> by the way: i don't understand how [makefile] converts numbers into  
> their ascii character.
>
> the [comport] help suggests that you can send bytes from 0-255  
> directly when sending a number into its inlet but it appears in my  
> case the numbers were sent as ascii text, letting the interpret a  
> three digit number as three different digits. writing this, i found  
> that i have to convert the number into a message (arduino then  
> accepts -128 to 127). is that something specific about the arduino  
> or should the helpfile be updated?
>
>
> grz
> ff
>
> [1] http://kiilo.org/tiki/tiki-download_wiki_attachment.php?attId=76&download=y 
> , http://kiilo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Arduino-PureData-MessageSystem
>
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