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Hands-On Internet of Things with MQTT

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Product type Book
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789341782
Pages 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Tim Pulver Tim Pulver
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters close

Title Page
Copyright and Credits About Packt Contributors Preface 1. The Internet of Things in a Nutshell 2. Basic Architecture of an IoT Prototype 3. Getting Started with MQTT 4. Setting Up a Lab Environment 5. Building Your Own Automatic Pet Food Dispenser 6. Building a Smart E-Ink To-Do List 7. Building a Smart Productivity Cube, Part 1 8. Building a Smart Productivity Cube, Part 2 9. Presenting Your Own Prototype 1. Assessments 2. Other Books You May Enjoy

Making your e-paper device accessible via serial

The next thing we want to do is make the text on the screen dynamic by adding serial communication. At the beginning, the text was static and defined as the HelloWorld variable. Now we have changed it to be a dynamic parameter of our setText function, but the way we use it is still static, because we just pass the "Hello display" static text to it via setText("Hello display");.

To make use of the serial port, let's find an example first that reads in a string from the serial port. We will then integrate it into our sketch. All the serial port examples can be found under File | Examples | 04.Communication.

Sadly, there is none that receives an input string and then does something with it.

We can have a look at the Arduino serial reference (https://www.arduino.cc/reference/en/language/functions...

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