PC programming for Micro connection ?

Hi,

We currenty use Pics, Arduinos and ESP32 but have only done simple serial comms using things like Putty /Terraterm and importing the data into Excel.

It would be nice if we could have our own screen layout for exchanging data, and now have the esp32 with its wifi and bt abilities, as yet little used.

Would appreciate any guidance as to the best language to learn to achive this as there seem so many out there to choose from.

No different than using Terraterm etc.

You simply need to write a program on the PC that does what you want visually, and communicates via a serial interface - doesn't matter what is on the other end, you simply write the software there to work over the same serial interface.

As for what language you use?, it's entirely up to you - but if you like Pascal then Lazurus is a good choice, and is a free program similar to Delphi. Visual Basic would work as well, or C, C++, C#, Java - pretty well anything you care to name - but one with good visual aspects (such as Lazurus) makes life much easier.

Thanks Nigel,

Never looked at Pascal, but there as some ytube tutorials so will have a good look.

I recently wrote a Visual Basic program (in the free version) that synchronized the time on an Arduino. From it you can easily send and receive anything you want. It may be a good starting point. See this thread.

Mike.

Thanks Pommie,

Missed your thread even though it was in front of my eyes !