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Serial Communication

To communicate with serial deices like Arduinos right click in the project browser in the place where you want to create the new script. Then click on Create > SmartifyOS > Serial Communication Script. This will create a serial communication script for you.

Now you need to create a new empty object in your hierarchy (eg. right click on Arduinos and click on Create Empty) then you can just drag your script onto this object

Manage existing Serial Communication Objects​

To manage existing Serial Communication Objects and their scripts in your scene you can open the setting (Ctrl + . or SmartifyOS > Settings). Then you can click on the tab Communication. There you can select the existing Serial Communication Objects in your scene and also remove them together with their script files.

Base class: BaseSerialCommunication​

Init​

portName = "COM1";
Init();

In Start() you have to call Init(), before calling it you can also set the serial port.

ReadMessage​

private void Update()
{
    ReadMessage();
}

In Update() you need to call ReadMessage().

Received​

public override void Received(string message)
{
    
}

Called every time the serial device sends a message

Send​

Send("Hello World");

Send a message to the serial device