Thanks for the program. I'm developing a rs232 load cell interface and I was wanting to plot the output to play with filtering and your program had me plotting the live output in less than a minute.

One feature I'd love to have is a FFT of the plot as well. You've basically made the UI of an oscilloscope here, you would gain a lot by copying the math and processing functions that most oscilloscopes come with these days.

Thanks for the program; extremely useful for visualising data quickly.

Hasan kardeşim tebrik ederim. Çok güzel ve kullanışlı. Kayıt yaparken yalnız  okunan değerler kaydediliyor.  oysa okunan değerin zamanını da kaydetmeliydi diye düşünüyorum. bu özellik programı daha kullanışlı hale getirecektir. ellerine sağlık.

@burhan güler uzun süredir planladığım bir özellik. Ancak projeye fazla zaman ayıramıyorum. Geçici olarak şunu önerebilirim: "record" sekmesinden yapılan kayıtlara "timestamp" sütunu ekleyebiliyorsunuz. Zaten çok uzun süren kayıtları dosyaya sürekli olarak kaydetmenizi de öneririm.

Thank you for your program, very useful

Hi Hasan and thanks for your great, useful and powerful job.

A feature that will be very useful if added,  is the XY Plotting of a pair of channels.

Also here is some suggestions for making this tool more perfect:

- Ability to plot XY mode with selected pair of input  channels.

- Ability to making tracks thick and thin.

- Ability to move mouse to points and showing point value. 

- Ability to resize each individual graph horizontally in single graph mode. 

- Ability to navigate graphs with mouse.  Zooming in and out with wheel,  moving zoomed graph with holding down wheel and moving mouse.

- Ability to auto connect to last selected port and start plotting, at software startup.

- Ability to set graph min/max limit for each graph individually in single graph mode.

- Ability to disable/enable the graph auto scrolling. This will be very handy when user wish to check some previous part of graph while data will continue to receiving, the graph auto scrolling can be disabled and can be enabled again.

And also i found a bug that the program will crash when loading a huge recorded and saved snapshot.

@Saeid  thanks for your comments.
1. planned, I could say its in progresses

2. long term planned

3. currently in progress, check out the latest log for a GIF of it working

4. I didn't understand this one?

5. wheel zoom long term planned, you can move zoomed graph with CTRL+left mouse

6. planned

7. I think you mean "multi plot" mode?

8. I plan to implement this after the XY plotting. But it's going to be difficult.

@Saeid  can you create a bug report here with a sample file: https://bitbucket.org/hyOzd/serialplot/issues

Hey great work! That reminds me of the project I upgraded not so long ago. If you can find some inspiration you can take a look at it !!

https://github.com/Eriobis/serial_port_plotter

Thanks @Simon Benoit  I should really add the text view for data : )

Hi, good job!  You can add more channel than 32 please? 

 thanks!

Sure.

Great app, lightweight, fast and feature-rich, thank you!

Hello, @Hasan Yavuz Özderya

I'm running on Linux Mint 19 (Ubuntu Bionic based), and i cannot add your PPA. It displays the following error:

HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Cannot add PPA: ''This PPA does not support bionic''.

Thanks in advance!

PPA hasn't been updated for some time. Please use the AppImage version.

Hello, 

I am trying to use the serial plot on Windows 10 using a FTDI connector. The FTDI shows up as port 13 in the serial plot. However, the data doesn't plot. 

Any recommendations?? 

@Hasan Yavuz Özderya forgot to mention you. 

@HC It doesn't matter, notifications are shit on hackaday anyway. I have no idea why it wouldn't plot. SP works fine with USB serialports. Make sure your "data format" settings are correct. Check the "Log" tab for errors. If you continue having problems, please create an issue here https://bitbucket.org/hyOzd/serialplot/issues with your settings file (File->Save Settings).

Great tool! I use it almost every day.

I cannot complite project with qmake /mingw - there are link problems . have anyone tried in qtcreator/mingw/qmake combination ? please helpme out

Sorry, qmake project file (serialplot.pro) isn't up to date. You could use cmake which also gathers all dependencies (except Qt SDK). Building on windows is a pain. I actually use msys2 when I have to build release images. It all works like it does in linux. But installing msys2 and making it work can be difficult and time consuming to be honest.

I also tried to  build a win32 version using msys2, but I'm not able to pass QCW-build:

-- Build files have been written to: /home/d.ziglioli/serialplot/build/qcw/src/QCW-build
[  6%] Performing build step for 'QCW'
[  1%] Generating ui_color_palette_widget.h
[  3%] Generating qrc_color_widgets.cpp
[  5%] Generating include/moc_color_palette_model.cpp
moc: /home/d.ziglioli/serialplot/build/qcw/src/QCW/include/color_palette_model.hpp: No such file
make[5]: *** [CMakeFiles/ColorWidgets-qt5.dir/build.make:67: include/moc_color_palette_model.cpp] Error 1
make[4]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:72: CMakeFiles/ColorWidgets-qt5.dir/all] Error 2
make[3]: *** [Makefile:84: all] Error 2
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/QCW.dir/build.make:112: qcw/src/QCW-stamp/QCW-build] Error 2
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:73: CMakeFiles/QCW.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:152: all] Error 2

are you able tu build it ? could you eventually release an updated win32 version ?

thanks.

PS: 

anyway thanks for the tool

@Daniele Ziglioli  which version are you trying to build? Did you get it from the bitbucket repository? qt color widget library recently moved their repository, if you have an older version of the source code that might be the problem.

>@Daniele Ziglioli  which version are you trying to build? Did you get it from the bitbucket repository? qt >color widget library recently moved their repository, if you have an older version of the source code that >might be the problem.

Yes I've follow your instruction for mercurial download from bitbucket.

For the QT i've follow this: https://wiki.qt.io/MSYS2

Hi there. First of all, thank you very much, Serial Plot is a very useful tool for me. I have some wishes for the application.
1) It could be helpful to see in real time (as log tab does) the list or table generated for Recording (The same text).
2) An option for adding system Date and/or system Time at the begining of each line in Record file.
3) In the Plot tab, a simple linear math opperation will help with calibrations, y=mx+b where Y is the output (plotted and recorded) data, x is the input data, and m and b constants configured in the channel list.

Well, may be I'm asking too much. But if it can be added would be great!
Anyway, congratulations for this nice project, and thanks again.

@Marcelo Pino Thanks for your comment. All 3 items are planned. #2 and #3 is going to take some time though. :)

Great! I look forward to see it! I can test it if you want. Regards.

Hullo everybody,

Could I make a suggestion to add detail to the install instructions to help out idiots like me?

If the instructions said if you distro has ... set BUILD_QWT to false "in the CMakelists file it would help a lot :)

This may sound silly or obvious but it's not! (if you aren't familiar with the config files for Cmake :) )

Good news it is quick to build on Raspberry Pi 3 under stretch and Ubuntu Mate for RPI once libqwt-qt5-dev is installed along with other dependencies.

Excited to try it out now!

Jamie

Jamie thanks for your comment. BUILD_QWT option is already mentioned in the README. Were you looking at the instructions here: https://bitbucket.org/hyOzd/serialplot ?

Hi

Thanks for the reple

Yes I did follow the instructions at this link https://bitbucket.org/hyOzd/serialplot, I should have been more clear.

My suggestion was to change the instructions from

"set BUILD_QWT cmake option to false."

to

"set BUILD_QWT cmake option in the CMakelists file to false."

Not everyone knows which file to look for the change the flag, does that make sense? :)

P.s. the software is great.

Jamie

Well, you are right, I should write more detailed instructions. For the record you don't have to change the CMakeLists.txt file. Usual method is to set the options from the command line like this:

"cmake -DBUILD_QWT=false .."

Or you can start the cmake gui and do it from there:

"cmake-gui .."

Haha, I did not know those options either, simpler than editing the text file!

I don't mean criticism, the instructions are good :)

Anyone with basic knowledge like me can complete them, just that one line explaining the usage of this option that may confuse people.

With VNC it makes a perfect remote data logger

All the best,

p.s. do you have a donation page somewhere?

Jamie

Jamie, if you are on linux, you can use a utility called "socat" to redirect serial port over tcp, that way you don't have run serialplot on the remote device. Now thinking about it, it would be nice to add this to serialplot...

No I don't have a donation page. I couldn't find an alternative to paypal since its banned in my country.

Morning,

Thanks for the suggestion, I have not used socat.

I should say the remote device is sitting in my desk, it is just a box with usb oscilloscope, diy meters and small LCD. It has WiFi so I use it.

That's a shame about American money company being banned. In Cuba they use the friends in Europe but it makes things less simple.

Jamie

Hi! I love SerialPlot. Its the best free prog that i found. But i have a problem: In Version 0.9 i had wrong values printed on high data rate. I tried it with version 0.10 and then i only have chunks of serial values coming in. Also with arduino Serial Monitor and the 0.9 version. I uninstalled 0.10, and the problem still exists. Before all that, it was a steady flow of the serialplot which i want back ;-( any help is much appreciated.

SOLVED:

I just changed the buffer of the com port, and now it works again. Does the software changes this???

That sounds like a serious problem. Are you saying that 0.8 version doesn't have this problem but later versions have? I would be glad if you can create an issue in the bug tracker: https://bitbucket.org/hyOzd/serialplot/issues/ with more details such as data format you use and baud rate, and actual sample rate etc.

I've been searching for such an intelligent tool for a long time. I would like to see in future updates the ability to produce simple mathematical / trigonometric operations on input data arrays. Excellent application, success for developers!

Math operations are already in my todo :D Thanks for kind comment!

Hi @lysergicenemy! Just wondering if you found something like that out there. Cheers!

Great tool.

I would like to add a feature request to display the live data in a histogram format, ideally with configurable 'bucket' sizes, but even displaying a tally for each count value received would be really useful. This would be useful for characterising measurements from a stable source.

Additionally, statistical metrics, such as min, max, mean would be useful.

That has been requested. And I have already started implementing the histogram feature but got in to some difficulties related to code quality. I'm in the middle of a small refactoring. After that it should be easy to implement. Please hold on tight.

Hi, and Thank You.

You wrote a very nice and useful tool. Again, many thanks.

May I suggest a few feature requests, please? It's nothing critical, but I think it will be nice to have them in the future versions. These requests are coming from using SerialPlot to visualize the humidity and temperature coming from the serial port in CSV format, one line with humidity and temperature at each second. The 2 channels are displayed on a big monitor (desktop).

https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/6309021518173007112.png

Here are the feature requests:

1. Put the Y axis values on the right side of the screen, too, not only on the left side. This feature will come in very handy when plotting on a wide screen.
2. Possibility to edit the channel's name. It would be nice to have names, especially when plotting more than one signal.
3. A window with text (like a scrolling table), so the exact numerical value can be monitored, too.
4. If 3. will be implemented, then please add a timestamp column, too.
5. Possibility to put date/time on X axis.
6. Possibility to subsample (like e.g. the device is generating a CSV line each second, but plotting only 1 sample each minute, so a few hours or days can be fitted in one plot.
7. Possibility to set manual Y axis ranges for each individual plot in 'Multi Plot' mode.
8. Similar with DTR, RTS, etc. indicators, an Rx and Tx indicator, too.

Just discovered request #2, channel renaming, is already implemented. Sorry for not RTFM first.
:o)

SerialPlot is running for a few hours now (Win10/I7), no bugs so far.

The ability to change the plot settings on the fly is gold, I love that feature.
Thank you.

"on the fly settings" has been one of my design goals. It's getting harder to abide by with every new feature but still I'm determined to stick to it! Thank's for kind comments.

I will consider #1, others has already been in my todo. Except #6. In the long term I want it to be possible to show very long data but how it is going to be represented is still a question in my mind.

Hello Hasan,

Great project truly, but I realized a small bug kind of thing I think:

When I first took a couple of screenshots it was working without any problem but now when I take a screenshot it just shows me the line between 2 data points even though the screenshot setting is 1000 data points to show.

(I am using the program to see the data coming from STM32F4 Discovery Board connected to the PC via FTDI.)

Except for this it is a great program, nice effort !!!

Please help

Do you mean the "snapshots"? Because taking a screenshot usually has nothing to do with the applications but it's a functionality provided by the OS. You should get what you see.

Which version of serialplot are you using? There used to be some bugs with the snapshot viewer but I've fixed those in the 0.10 version.

Yes I mean snapshots, sorry couldn't remember the name so wrote screenshot by mistake.

I am currently using 0.9 and now that I saw your comment I couldn't figure out how to download 0.10 version from here.

Could you please help me 

I am a noobie on hackaday.io

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Never mind I found it

I will try this one and if problem is no longer I will be so thankful.

Thank you so much

I'm pretty sure v0.10 will work for you. Because I fixed that specific bug. For the record all downloads can be accessed from this page: https://bitbucket.org/hyOzd/serialplot/downloads/ Latest versions are usually linked in the sidebar of this project page.

Hi Hasan,
Thank you for the time and effort you put into Serialplot. It worked flawlessly for a 3-phase metering project where I needed to display in real-time 3 channels of raw 16-bit signed ADC data. My ADC sampling rate was 3.9ksps and UART was running at 500kbaud. Being able to set up custom frames separates your software from most others. Very nice work, thanks again!

I'm happy to be helpful. Thanks for your nice comment. Also thanks for providing information. Such data is important when I'm thinking about design and optimization of the SerialPlot.