Hi everyone,

I'm trying to use Processing to make a conection to the propellor chip(parallax). Now, the propellor-object i use is expecting an "enter" signal after a number. This signal would be 13 as a string. well, that's at least what i thought. The Serial answer to it is something like: "$r 1§$!& §
I guess that's kind of a swearing. It's not the baudrate and the programming of the chip, as everything is working with the terminal.
This is the Processing code i'm using for the testing:

import processing.serial.*;

Serial myPort;  // Create object from Serial class
int val;      // Data received from the serial port

void setup()
{
 size(200, 200);

 String portName = Serial.list()[2];
 myPort = new Serial(this, portName, 9600);
 println(Serial.list());
 delay(1000);
 
}

void draw()
{
 String enter = "13";
   while (myPort.available() > 0) {
     
     myPort.write(100);
     myPort.write(enter);
     println("did send it"+ enter);
     
     String inBuffer = myPort.readString();  
     if (inBuffer != null) {
       println(inBuffer);
     }
     delay(1000);
   }
}

so the code starts writing (after lots of delays to make shure that everything is ready). The spin code on the other side is just listening and, when getting something, writing back what it gets. as i said it's working on the terminal, and i guess i just kind of don't send the enter signel correctly.

anybody got ann idea?

cheers

I just figured out that it's not the sending, but seems to be the opening of the port...

if i just simply say:

if (myPort.available() > 0){
  println("gogogo!");
}

it doesn't do anything at the first time. in case i disconnect and connect again i just get just bad things from the chip like:

œ4m”¶h”œ<m”¶h”œ4m”¶h”œ4m”¶h”œ4m”–h”œ<m”–h”œ4m”–h”œ4m”–h”œ4m”–h”¶h”–h”œ4m”–h”œÚ”–
h”œÚ”–

but constantly! (sounds like klingonian)

any idea?
cheers