Serial Plotter

[nd0ut]

Hello! I sketched a simple Serial Plotter. It is based on highcharts library and react wrapper.
Please take a look.

Task list:

• Basic functionality
• Auto-start monitor if it is not started
• Optimize performance and memory usage
• Reload plot when on monitor restart
• Add controls to change refresh rate, play/pause, reset
• Add customizable regex to parse plot line
• Add command to call from Command Palette
• Add snippet or library with plot function
• Update docs
• Use another chart library

Plot function example:

void plot(String name, float value) {
    String time = String(millis());
    Serial.println("PLOT[" + time + ';' + name + "=" + value + "]");
}

You can activate Serial Plotter with button in the Status Bar.
I'll add some screenshots later.

Any suggestions or criticism?

[msftclas]

All CLA requirements met.

[ThaDaVos]

When will this be added?

Also - would be great if it was added in a way that you can have both, the plotter and monitor, open at the same time - this currently lacks in the Arduino IDE

[nd0ut]

@dvdbot
Sorry guys, my chinese arduino died and I stopped working on this PR.
It feels like a week has passed since that moment, but in fact for half a year :)
I'll order a bunch of new arduino's right now and continue working on PR.

Also - would be great if it was added in a way that you can have both, the plotter and monitor, open at the same time - this currently lacks in the Arduino IDE

Viewing of both monitor and plotter is currently available. But there are performance problems, at high refresh-rate plotter just freezes after a while.

[nd0ut]

Here is the video: http://ucarecdn.com/1abde84e-d534-4f14-9db9-d1424afdb2d4/

[ThaDaVos]

That looks amazing!

[SupinePandora43]

any updates?!

[dirkjanfaber]

Any news on this?
How to test the work so far?

[tjwieg]

Any way for outside folks to help out, or is it done and we're just waiting on main branch people to greenlight the merge?

[SupinePandora43]

i have survived time w/o internet but this PR still not merged

[romanlex]

any updates?!

[nd0ut]

Guys, I don't know why, but the maintainers definitely don't want this pull request to be merged into the master.

I could probably publish my fork with serial plotter at the vscode marketplace so you can use it easily, but I think it's a bad way to go.

So I'll ask one last time before I close this pull request and forget about it.

What do I need to do to get approve and see serial plotter in the release? Apart from resolving master conflicts and the green travis. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? Give me some feedback and don't ignore, please.

[dariosalvi78]

This would be a very desirable feature to have. Maintainers, pleaaaaaaase!

[fellnerse]

Why is this ignored?

[SupinePandora43]

@nd0ut it is possible to have Serial plotter as separate extension for vscode?

[DaVarga]

@shizn please review

[shizn]

Thanks for looping me in. But sorry guys, I'm no longer the owner or maintainer of this project for 2 years. :(
This is an amazing PR. Let me try to figure out how to make this move forward. Stay tuned.

[timebis]

any uptdate ?

[CorentinPacaud]

@timebis It seems there was a pull request made but rejected. :( But I don't see any date on the PR.
Still waiting...

[adiazulay]

I'm taking a look at this PR now. I've resolved all the merge conflicts, if everything works I'll merge this into dev shortly.

[AlexIII]

@nd0ut

I could probably publish my fork with serial plotter at the vscode marketplace so you can use it easily, but I think it's a bad way to go.

Maybe not a bad idea, especially if you're willing to review and accept other contributions too. I would gladly participate in developing more active fork. This repo have become painfully slow even on fixing major bugs, let alone adding new features.
And I think this not going to change until there's an alternative.

[CorentinPacaud]

You can use this plotter. Stillin dev (add export CSV...) It seems to be awesome :
https://github.com/nesnes/teleplot-vscode

[farr-slmn]

@nd0ut, hi, as shizn is not responsible for this project anymore, could you please set @adiazulay as a reviewer, so we can get going? 🙏

[nd0ut]

@farr-slmn Seems like I can't edit the reviewers list:

[shizn]

Is there anything I could do to unblock this? Let me know.

[farr-slmn]

Is there anything I could do to unblock this? Let me know.

Do you have any cogs available to opt out from reviewers?

If no, I think it would be great to @ someone with permission to edit reviewers. (I don't know whom to call, so i'm letting you to pick someone you knew and still available)

[lersi]

hello, I created a community fork at https://github.com/vscode-arduino/vscode-arduino.
You are more than welcome to merge your changes there.