Timestamps splitting up string on data capture

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ejpretty
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Timestamps splitting up string on data capture

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Hi,

I'm currently setting up a myoware sensor attached to an arduino, and I require millisecond timestamp data alongside the voltage data for my research.

I've set everything up and everything seems to be find, however I am having trouble with the timestamps splitting up the strings I'm trying to print alongside them.

This is a sample of what it looks like:

11:35:34.676
V: 180
11:35:34.692 3.52


11:35:34.692 V: 1813.
11:35:34.708 29

V:
11:35:34.708 1798.63


11:35:34.727 V: 1793.
11:35:34.743 74

V: 180
11:35:34.743 8.41


11:35:34.758
V: 1808.41

11:35:34.774

V: 1793.7
11:35:34.774 4


Should I be printing the timestamps in the arduino code instead? or is there something else I need to be doing in coolterm. I'm very new to this so any help is much appreciated!

Thanks!
Emma
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Re: Timestamps splitting up string on data capture

Post by roger »

Hi Emma,

I recommend turning on the option to wait for line endings. That way CoolTerm won’t prefix the received data with a time until a line ending is received. That, of course, requires the received data to be terminated with line endings (CR, LF, or CR+LF) after each line of data.

I hope this helps.

Roger
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Re: Timestamps splitting up string on data capture

Post by ejpretty »

Hi Roger,

Thanks for that and my apologies for the late reply.

I've done your recommended steps and changed a couple of other settings and now the timestamps are not breaking the string (yay), however the timestamps + data that are being printed to the text file do not match the data in the coolterm interface.

I cannot work out how to attach an image to the forum post, otherwise I would show, but it is off by one and some timestamps are printing multiple times.

Regards,
Emma
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Re: Timestamps splitting up string on data capture

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Hi Emma,

you can go to "About CoolTerm" in the menu and it will show my e-mail address. You can use that to send me screenshots, etc. Please also send my your settings files, and I'll take a look at your settings.

Roger
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