Serial Arduino sample

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Shows how to use the Windows.Devices.SerialCommunication APIs to communicate with an Arduino device.

Note: This sample is part of a large collection of UWP feature samples. You can download this sample as a standalone ZIP file from docs.microsoft.com, or you can download the entire collection as a single ZIP file, but be sure to unzip everything to access shared dependencies. For more info on working with the ZIP file, the samples collection, and GitHub, see Get the UWP samples from GitHub. For more samples, see the Samples portal on the Windows Dev Center.

This sample allows the user to configure and communicate with an Arduino board that has simple wired circuitry consisting of 4 LEDs and a temperature sensor. This sample demonstrates the following

  • Connect/Disconnect using Device Selection list
  • Communicating with the Arduino board and toggle the LEDs and get readings from the temperature sensor.

Connect/Disconnect using Device Selection list

When the application starts, a list of available matching Arduino devices is displayed along with options to Connect/Disconnect to/from a selected device.

LED/Temperature

This scenario demonstrates the use of Input and Output streams on the SerialDevice object in order to communicate with the Serial device specifically to toggle the four LEDs and get temperature readings from the temperature sensor.

Hardware requirements

Any Arduino board with a header that can be used to wire up the simple circuit of LEDs and the temperature sensor. The Arduino uses a custom sketch that goes along with the sample and is included in the sketch folder as SerialCommand.ino.

The wiring diagram is also provided as SerialCommand.fzz can be opened with Fritzing application. (Download at http://Fritzing.org)

Operating system requirements

Client: Windows 10

Server: Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview

Phone: Windows 10

Build and Deploy the sketch

  1. Install the Arduino IDE.
  2. Open the SerialCommand.ino sketch.
  3. Compile and deploy the sketch to the Arduino device.

Build the sample

  1. If you download the samples ZIP, be sure to unzip the entire archive, not just the folder with the sample you want to build.
  2. Start Microsoft Visual Studio and select File > Open > Project/Solution.
  3. Starting in the folder where you unzipped the samples, go to the Samples subfolder, then the subfolder for this specific sample, then the subfolder for your preferred language (C++, C#, or JavaScript). Double-click the Visual Studio Solution (.sln) file.
  4. Press Ctrl+Shift+B, or select Build > Build Solution.

Run the sample

To run this sample after building it, press F5 (run with debugging enabled) or Ctrl+F5 (run without debugging enabled) from Visual Studio. (Or select the corresponding options from the Debug menu.)