Description

Write data to a serial port for arduino.

Syntax

 serialWrite iPort, iByte

 serialWrite iPort, kByte

 serialWrite iPort, SBytes

Performance

iPort -- port number optained from a serialBegin opcode.

iByte -- a byte of data to write.

Examples

Here is an example of the serialWrite opcode. It uses the file serialWrite.csd.

<CsoundSynthesizer>
<CsOptions>
; Select audio/midi flags here according to platform
-n  ;;;no output
;-iadc    ;;;uncomment -iadc if realtime audio input is needed too
; For Non-realtime ouput leave only the line below:
; -o serialWrite.wav -W ;;; for file output any platform
</CsOptions>
<CsInstruments>

sr  = 44100
ksmps = 500 ; the default krate can be too fast for the arduino to handle
nchnls = 2
0dbfs  = 1

instr 1

iPort serialBegin "/dev/cu.usbmodemfa131", 9600			;connect to the arduino with baudrate = 9600

kGain init 16							;read our knob value
kVal serialRead iPort
if (kVal != -1) then
    kGain = kVal/128
endif

aSig in								;get our audio input and get its rms
kRms rms aSig*kGain

kRms = kRms*kRms*255						;scale the rms to a good value for the LED and send it out
serialWrite iPort, (kRms < 255 ? kRms : 255)			;must be in range: 0-255

endin
</CsInstruments>
<CsScore>
f 1 0 1024 10 1 1 1 1 1 1

i 1 0 200
e
</CsScore>
</CsoundSynthesizer>

This is the matching Arduino code :

void setup() {
  // enable serial communication
  Serial.begin(9600);

  // declare pin 9 to be an output:
  pinMode(9, OUTPUT);
}

void loop() {
  // only do something if we received something (this should be at csound's k-rate)
  if (Serial.available()) {
    // set the brightness of LED (connected to pin 9) to our input value
    int brightness = Serial.read();
    analogWrite(9, brightness);

    // while we are here, get our knob value and send it to csound
    int sensorValue = analogRead(A0);
    Serial.write(sensorValue/4); // scale to 1-byte range (0-255)
  }     
}
.....

See Also

serialBegin, serialEnd, serialWrite_i, serialRead, serialPrint, serialFlush.

Credits

New in version 5.14