Passing Data to an arduino

1

Hi there I would like to pass numeric date from a Nextion to an arduino I have created a “n0” as a keyboard fill and would like to send the resauling number to the arduino .
Can someone help please?
Bob

2

Have you installed the Nextion Library ?

If not, here the .zip file you need:
https://github.com/itead/ITEADLIB_Arduino_Nextion/archive/v0.7.0.zip

If you have installed the library, you will find some examples, like this one for Numbers:
https://github.com/itead/ITEADLIB_Arduino_Nextion/blob/master/examples/CompNumber/CompNumber_v0_32.ino#L74

Regards,
Marten

3

Thanks for that Marten
I will give it a try
Bob

4

You don’t need the library. It’s much easier to just read the serial data directly:

Nextion code in button Touch Release Event
  print "." // Ascii:46  Used in Arduino switch statement
  print pageProgram.n0.val
  printh FF // custom serial terminator

Arduino code
	// All Nextion incoming data packets are terminated with one 0xFF byte (Custom termination).
	if ((Serial1.available() > 0) || (Serial2.available() > 0)|| (Serial3.available() > 0))
	{
		incomingByte = SerialRead(serialId); // SerialRead just checks three possible serial ports for data.
    switch (incomingByte)
		{
  			case 46: // . - 
			{
				patternCount = GetSerialInteger(); // Set variable to the integer
				EEPROM.put(eePromAddress_Pattern, configPattern); // Also store in EEPROM 
				break;
			}
			...
	   }		
  
  /// <summary>
/// Parse serial input for new integer value
/// </summary>
/// <comment>
/// </comment>
/// <returns>Integer value</returns>
int GetSerialInteger()
{
	char inputHex;

	// Value will be 0 to 100
	inputHex = SerialRead(serialId);  

	int newInteger = (int)inputHex ;
	while (SerialAvailable() > 0)  //
	{
		// Discard remaining serial chars
		SerialRead(serialId);
	}

#ifdef DEBUG
	const char * int_Char = "Int:";
	Serial.print(int_Char);
	Serial.println(newInteger);
#endif // DEBUG
	return newInteger;
}
5

Thanks Elf i will give that a try
thanks
Bob