Help with Manuals

[AbeFM]

I've been trying to do a few things I consider to be relatively striaghtforward.

I'd like to be able to get timestamps, and I'd like to monitor my chip from my PC.

I've tried the downloadable example at http://www.matrixtsl.com/wiki/index.php ... 32_(Comms)
I've messed with it some and had nothing like a response coming back, though I can see my arduino's TX light flashing as it should, and I can see a repeating message with my oscope on the line.

The timestamp thing is from another thread, but a project I could download that would run on an uno/mini/328 and could do this:

Tick a variable up and know how much time has passed.
Output some meaningful representation of that time on the screen of my PC.

None of the examples get me close to there. Please help, and I've had little luck making what seem basic functions to work.

Thank you!!!!

[AbeFM]

Er, sorry for the inadvertent tone there - I was being called away and really let my frustration come out demanding.

I'm nearing the end of my free trial, and it seems like features are skipped in the documentation, and I'm concerned about the utility of the program if I can't get a sample code that'll do something like that.

Perhaps someone could point one out to me? Something I could run and edit at home? Or if there's a walk-through I'm missing that shows how to get catch those broadcasts over the same com port I just programmed it on... I'd be very grateful. Thank you.

[EtsDriver]

Youd like to have something like this? (Tested the enter input only on Windows machine, no clue will it work on Linux).. But load this program to your Uno using flowcode, and then try playing around? I have a kinda working one right here on my screen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPYIyNb ... e=youtu.be

Could you show out your programs or tries so we could try to solve whats wrong?

<You can pm to ask for the receiving routine macro, i took dowload down>

[AbeFM]

Thanks for the awesome post. I'm able to read it over, though my trial expired so I can't run it. Still, something fleshed out goes a LONG ways towards showing how to actually do it. Unfortunately, the console doesn't show up and some of the commands are blank, so I think until I reconnect with the guy who manages the accounts I'll just have to wait.

I'll add more when I've had a chance to test it. In the meantime, some bet hedging while I go rewrite stuff in C.

Thanks again for the post. Probably fleshing out "five common examples which will actually run on real hardware, turnkey" would go pretty far to making people proficient quickly. The example looks reasonable, I look forward to trying it out!
-Abe.