I am working on a project to create visuals and sounds via data from a PM reader. I got it to work and connected to port COM4, and I can see that it’s working. But I get an error message when I try to connect it through DAT Serial node on TouchDesigner. What am I doing wrong? Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you. Here’s the code for Arduino:
#include <SoftwareSerial.h>
SoftwareSerial pmsSerial(2, 3);
void setup() {
// our debugging output
Serial.begin(9600);
// sensor baud rate is 9600
pmsSerial.begin(9600);
}
struct pms5003data {
uint16_t framelen;
uint16_t pm10_standard, pm25_standard, pm100_standard;
uint16_t pm10_env, pm25_env, pm100_env;
uint16_t particles_03um, particles_05um, particles_10um, particles_25um, particles_50um, particles_100um;
uint16_t unused;
uint16_t checksum;
};
struct pms5003data data;
void loop() {
if (readPMSdata(&pmsSerial)) {
// reading data was successful!
Serial.println();
Serial.println(data.particles_03um);
Serial.println(data.particles_05um);
Serial.println(data.particles_10um);
Serial.println(data.particles_25um);
Serial.println(data.particles_50um);
Serial.println(data.particles_100um);
}
}
boolean readPMSdata(Stream *s) {
if (! s->available()) {
return false;
}
// Read a byte at a time until we get to the special ‘0x42’ start-byte
if (s->peek() != 0x42) {
s->read();
return false;
}
// Now read all 32 bytes
if (s->available() < 32) {
return false;
}
uint8_t buffer[32];
uint16_t sum = 0;
s->readBytes(buffer, 32);
// get checksum ready
for (uint8_t i=0; i<30; i++) {
sum += buffer[i];
}
/* debugging
for (uint8_t i=2; i<32; i++) {
Serial.print(“0x”); Serial.print(buffer[i], HEX); Serial.print(", ");
}
Serial.println();
*/
// The data comes in endian’d, this solves it so it works on all platforms
uint16_t buffer_u16[15];
for (uint8_t i=0; i<15; i++) {
buffer_u16[i] = buffer[2 + i2 + 1];
buffer_u16[i] += (buffer[2 + i2] << 8);
}
// put it into a nice struct 
memcpy((void *)&data, (void *)buffer_u16, 30);
if (sum != data.checksum) {
Serial.println(“Checksum failure”);
return false;
}
// success!
return true;
}