Using serial monitor in PlatformIO

[krambriw]

I just have a question related to testing with PlatformIO. I have the OpenMQTTGateway running fine on a esp32, connected to my windows pc via usb. I want to monitor the serial to see in real time what is happening. Is it the right way to use the serial monitor in PlatformIO? I mean when I start the serial monitor I see the actions happening but are they coming from the uploaded code running in the esp32? Or is it platformIO that runs a separate task on the esp32?

[1technophile]

@krambriw

I see the actions happening but are they coming from the uploaded code running in the esp32?

From what I see in the screenshot yes they are.

[krambriw]

OK, thanks, good to know. I anyway just tried a normal terminal application and it seems to do well enough if you just need serial monitoring

I have seen that after a while the “name” and “txpower” property is lost in the response like in this example

“id”:“d9:77:b9:4c:b8:5b”,“manufacturerdata”:“L”,“rssi”:-77,“distance”:7.119795}

When it works correctly, mostly in the beginning of the scan, it looks like this:

{“id”:“d9:77:b9:4c:b8:5b”,“name”:“MiniBeacon_10754”,“manufacturerdata”:“L”,“rssi”:-76,“txpower”:0,“distance”:6.44788}

[1technophile]

@krambriw

I anyway just tried a normal terminal application and it seems to do well enough if you just need serial monitoring

You’re right and sometimes it could be more convenient to have a separate windows for the serial monitoring

@krambriw

I have seen that after a while the “name” and “txpower” property is lost in the response like in this example

If the properties are not found during the ESP32 scan indeed I don’t publish them, we do a function call to see if it have the expected value:

1technophile/OpenMQTTGateway/blob/aeb00c4a7a5b55fc04d41e2b0444d13c61085450/main/ZgatewayBT.ino#L438