Hello World failing in Processing

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Hi there, I am having trouble with my Arduino communicating through processing. I ever dumbed down the code far enough to a hello world program and all it is doing is returning null so I know for sure there is some issue. Can anyone help please?

import processing.serial.*;

Serial myPort;  // Create object from Serial class
String val;     // Data received from the serial port

void setup()
{
  // Open whatever port is the one you're using.
  String portName = Serial.list()[19]; //change to match your port
  myPort = new Serial(this, portName, 9600);
  println(myPort);
}


void draw()
{
  if ( myPort.available() > 0) 
  {  // If data is available,
  val = myPort.readStringUntil('\n');         // read it and store it in val
  } 
println(val); //print it out in the console
}
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rbayne:
Hi there, I am having trouble with my Arduino communicating through processing. I ever dumbed down the code far enough to a hello world program and all it is doing is returning null so I know for sure there is some issue. Can anyone help please?

import processing.serial.*;

Serial myPort; // Create object from Serial class
String val; // Data received from the serial port

void setup()
{
// Open whatever port is the one you’re using.
String portName = Serial.list()[19]; //change to match your port
myPort = new Serial(this, portName, 9600);
println(myPort);
}

void draw()
{
if ( myPort.available() > 0)
{ // If data is available,
val = myPort.readStringUntil(‘\n’); // read it and store it in val
}
println(val); //print it out in the console
}

Hi,

Well on processing end if you want to receive the data from the Arduino then you need to define a separate Serial listener instead of reading Serial input inside draw method. See the code below:

import processing.serial.*; //import the Serial library
 Serial myPort;  //the Serial port object
 String val;
// since we're doing serial handshaking, 
// we need to check if we've heard from the microcontroller
boolean firstContact = false;

void setup() {
  size(200, 200); //make our canvas 200 x 200 pixels big
  //  initialize your serial port and set the baud rate to 9600
  myPort = new Serial(this, Serial.list()[4], 9600);
  myPort.bufferUntil('\n'); 
}

void draw() {
  //we can leave the draw method empty, 
  //because all our programming happens in the serialEvent (see below)
}

void serialEvent( Serial myPort) {
//put the incoming data into a String - 
//the '\n' is our end delimiter indicating the end of a complete packet
val = myPort.readStringUntil('\n');
//make sure our data isn't empty before continuing
if (val != null) {
  //trim whitespace and formatting characters (like carriage return)
  val = trim(val);
  println(val);

  //look for our 'A' string to start the handshake
  //if it's there, clear the buffer, and send a request for data
  if (firstContact == false) {
    if (val.equals("A")) {
      myPort.clear();
      firstContact = true;
      myPort.write("A");
      println("contact");
    }
  }
  else { //if we've already established contact, keep getting and parsing data
    println(val);

    if (mousePressed == true) 
    {                           //if we clicked in the window
      myPort.write('1');        //send a 1
      println("1");
    }

    // when you've parsed the data you have, ask for more:
    myPort.write("A");
    }
  }
}

I hope it will help you.