Hi,

I'm starting with a an Arduino Decimila board,

I've connected a potentiometer to Analog 0 input and I want to receive
some numbers in PD,

So far...

• loaded Firmata into board
• opened arduino-test patch
• tried sending data from PD to board and it worked (board led blinking)

What's not working:
I can't receive data while changing the analog input from the board.
(Just to be sure I tested de analog input from the IDE environment and it worked ok).
Seems like I'm not selecting the input correctly at Pduino, but I tried setting
AnalogIn = 0 and all the others with no success,

any ideas?
thanks!

MMson

hey, although I am not an expert I have had much better luck in this way:

run Analog Read Serial in the Arduino IDE (or you own version of it, depending on what you need, the skeleton is in the Basics section of the IDE)

then make sure you are getting data in the serial monitor

close that, or it will interfere with what PD is receiving

make a new patch, create the [comport] object

give it as creation arguments the port you want to open by default, and the baud rate specified in your arduino sketch (now closed) - for example [comport 4 9600]

you can open and close ports with messages to the comport object as well, for example open 4( will open port 4

then connect whatever you need to [comport] and the same numbers that were flowing across your serial port should come out of the left outlet

this method to me is simpler than pduino, even though it lacks the nice gui