serial_com_data_plotting_comparator

1. Function:

• continuously reading multiple set of data from serial com,
• plotting them to curve,
• and making camparison.
• with clean UI

2. Toolset

• Create UI and interaction functions with pyside6（QT for python）;
• Plot data with pyQtGraph
• All platform supported: MacOS(tested), Linux, Windows

3. How to use

3.1 Use case on Mac

select setting:

Full setting:

3.2 The input data(serial port data stream) format is simple like this:

// group 1(must)
$x1:-3257.31
$y1:-3257.14
$z1:-3257.14
// group 2(option)
$x2:-3257.31
$y2:-3257.14
$z2:-3257.14

4. Deploment for mac

4.1 Use PyInstaller

# Install the PyInstaller via pip:
pip install pyinstaller

# Then package the application with the following command in the root directory:
pyinstaller --name="Serial Plotter" --windowed --icon resource/icon.icns  main.py

You can find the packaged application in the dist folder.

4.2 Use pyside6-deploy

It compile pyside6 into diferent modules instead of whole package, so you can reduce the useless ones pyside6-deploy is along with pyside6, you don't need to install it separately.

pyside6-deploy -c pysidedeploy.spec 
cd src/deployment/serialPlotter.app/Contents/MacOS
rm QtPdf QtQml QtQmlModels QtQuick libcrypto.3.dylib QtNetwork

5. Thanks

• COMTool

comtool is very useful tool for serial port data reading, but it's graph plugin for mac is not working. That's why I made this clean tool.

• Qt for Python

• PyQtGraph