Plot 2D graph in live to show volts change from voltameters + receive data from HC-05 bluetooth

Bugs and Other Issues
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I used HC-05 bluetooth + Arduino + Voltameter to send data to MIT inventor app to draw 2D graph in live. I followed 1 topic in this forum to modify my code at link https://groups.google.com/g/mitappinventortest/c/M3W3e-ve2-g/m/8VdNpBkFAwAJ
. But when running app, the graph can not run in live. Graph only run in 2s with a short line on monitor, then stop running. Plese help me !!!! Thank you so much.

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blocks
blocks1114×1659 140 KB

voltameterAIA.aia (4.8 KB)
Arduino code:

int in = A0;

void setup() {
// put your setup code here, to run once:
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(in, INPUT);
}

void loop() {
float val = analogRead(in);
float AcX = val / 205;
Serial.print("AcX = ");
Serial.print(AcX);
Serial.print("|");
delay(400);
}

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Here is how to deal with message delimiters the AI2 way:

Be sure to use println() at the end of each message to send from the sending device, to signal end of message.

Only use print() in the middle of a message.

Be sure not to println() in the middle of a message, or you will break it into two short messages and mess up the item count after you split the message in AI2.

Do not rely on timing for this, which is unreliable.

In the AI2 Designer, set the Delimiter attribute of the BlueTooth Client component to 10 to recognize the End of Line character.
BlueToothClient1_Properties
Also, return data is not immediately available after sending a request,
you have to start a Clock Timer repeating and watch for its arrival in the Clock Timer event. The repeat rate of the Clock Timer should be faster than the transmission rate in the sending device, to not flood the AI2 buffers.

In your Clock Timer, you should check

  Is the BlueTooth Client still Connected?
  Is Bytes Available > 0?
     IF Bytes Available > 0 THEN
       set message var  to BT.ReceiveText(-1)

This takes advantage of a special case in the ReceiveText block:

ReceiveText(numberOfBytes)
Receive text from the connected Bluetooth device. If numberOfBytes is less than 0, read until a delimiter byte value is received.

If you are sending multiple data values per message separated by | or comma, have your message split into a local or global variable for inspection before trying to select list items from it. Test if (length of list(split list result) >= expected list length) before doing any select list item operations, to avoid taking a long walk on a short pier. This bulletproofing is necessary in case your sending device sneaks in some commentary messages with the data values.

Some people send temperature and humidity in separate messages with distinctive prefixes like "t:" (for temperature) and "h:" (for humidity).
(That's YAML format.)

The AI2 Charts component can recognize these and graph them. See Bluetooth Client Polling Rate - #12 by ABG

To receive YAML format messages, test if the incoming message contains ':' . If true, split it at ':' into a list variable, and find the prefix in item 1 and the value in item 2.

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