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Step 1 Design rack in Rack Designer, or you may download example archive which contains this rack :
Controls' names in this rack are :
Analog meter : ameter1
Numeric display : num1
Power button : pbutton1
and two borders, border1 and border2.
Step 2 Code your microcontroller to do these easy jobs:
1) wait to receive on its serial input pin string "go"
2) read voltage value from one of its AD chanel
3) send on its serial output pin value read from AD, as a string, example a 123 value to be serout as "123"
4) send on its serial output pin crlf (ascii 13, ascii 10)
5) jump to 1)
Step 3 Easy Control code :
#open port and rack
myport="com4"
openrack (volt.res)
openport (myport,9600,8,n,1)
again:
#check if power button (pause here) is pressed, and stay here until is depressed
repeat
until (pbutton1==0)
#send query to microcontroller
send (myport,"go1")
#wait to receive data, ended with crlf
repeat
rec=receive (myport)
posofcrlf=pos (chr(13)&chr(10),rec)
until (posofcrlf<>0)
#cut crlf from string received
lun=len(rec)-2
result=mid(rec,1,lun)
#calculate real value of voltage
volt=(result*5000)/255
#check if is a integer or has decimal point
posofp=pos (".",volt)
#and set analog meter and numeric display
if (posofp<>0)
#has decimal point, cut string
num1=mid (volt,1,posofp-1)
ameter1=mid (volt,1,posofp-1)
else
#has not, leave it as is
num1=volt
ameter1=volt
endif
#flush port
flush (myport)
#and again, and again, until you stop script
goto again
On a AMD K6-II/300 Mhz and with a 4 Mhz PIC 16C711 it reads more than 10 times per second.
Further improvements: implementing software filtering, detecting in script on which port device is, timeouts, file logging, etc....
Download this project : Voltmeter.
Enjoy !
maintained by Cosmin Buhu