Connecting Arduino to ARC
Customizing Firmware
The firmware can be modified and optimized for additional features. When the firmware is modified, the new capabilities must be registered with Synthiam website.
I should add a disclaimer that this tutorial is not complete. You can customize the EZ-Arduino firmware with new features (called capabilities) that ARC will recognize, although that part of this tutorial hasn't been completed yet.
How are builders communicating between ARC and the supported platforms? When using an EZB you have WiFi connectivity from your computer running ARC. I have never touched an Arduino but I do know you can buy shields for them. Would I connect through one of these?
Dave, My thoughts as well, at the moment I have it hardwired through the USB cable connected to the PC, but this is just to try things out. Thinking about a Bluetooth connection via Arduino Bluetooth shields boards to make it remote??
Cem, then maybe you didn’t select the correct baudrate? Follow each step of the tutorial and you should be good
DJ, After loading the Beta version I can connect the ARC to the Arduino Uno+ and all works fine, and have the baudrate at 57600. Have a servo on D3 and working OK.
You might of misunderstood what I was trying to say above, regarding having to have the USB lead hardwired from the Arduino to the PC/Laptop. Where I think Dave was asking can you use it wireless like with the EZ-B V4 or IoTiny using wifi, without the USB lead. That's why I mentioned about may be this can to done via the Arduino Bluetooth shields board??
Yah - that's the good and bad with arduino. You can use it wirelessly if you know how to do it. There's no standard with Arduino so there's nothing i can directly support. You'll have to modify the code to use a different UART interface for wireless shields. Take a look at the most recent firmware sourcecode that i updated today (Feb 4, 2019). I put comments in the code header so you can see what i mean. Just change the COMMUNICATION_PORT from Serial to Serial1 or Serial2, where ever the shield is connected
Why wouldn't connecting a Bluetooth to I/O pins 0 and 1 that are replicas of the USB serial pins and then pairing the Bluetooth with your PC Bluetooth to get the virtual serial port work without modifications to the firmware?
FYI It works fine over bluetooth... You have to modify the arduino source code to use 9600 baud not 57600
That's not bad RichardR, Cool! I'm surprised the Bluetooth virtual serial port won't run higher on the PC, bummer.