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Bort-Plate opened this issue Feb 5, 2016 · 8 comments
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Request for Fixed Y scale #26

Bort-Plate opened this issue Feb 5, 2016 · 8 comments
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topic: code Related to content of the project itself type: enhancement Proposed improvement

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@Bort-Plate
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With values that constantly change, the range of the plot will shrink and expand, making it incredibly difficult to judge the amplitude of a plot without constantly re-checking the Y-axis (of which is too small to read on my 4K screen anyway). A 3 inch peak may have a max value of 500, and 10 seconds later, another 3 inch peak will have a value of 25!

By having a selectable minimum and maximum, each peak on the plot can be visually compared properly.

@cousteaulecommandant
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I agree that this is annoying; if not a selectable range (which I think would be best), at least an option to disable auto-scaling.

Also a horizontal grid would help.

@karlTH
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karlTH commented Feb 11, 2016

serial plotter is an awesone tools
a csv export will be really good.
thanks a lot for the work.
i m also agree with cousteaulecommandant

@andreashove
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A quick fix to this is to print your desired scale every time you print a value.

If your values are between 0 and 1000 you can do:

String withScale = "0 ";
withScale += value;
withScale += " 1000";

Serial.println(withScale);

@MickMad
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MickMad commented Feb 20, 2017

I totally agree. Autorange is no good for me. I am currently sending a value between 0.0 and 1.0 to the serial plotter and it autoranges to -6.0 to +6.0 ... Why?

@andreashove we should not include a lot of overhead in memory and time of execution to our codes because a basic feature is missing.

@phoenixperry
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I am going to agree that this is really difficult to work with and could use a fix.

@alecokas
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I agree with @MickMad. Has any progress been made on this issue? I think it would be a useful addition.

@steeley
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steeley commented Mar 16, 2019

yep, 3 years on and still no option....
Plotter is very useful, but on/off autoscale should have been a fundamental feature.
I had to hack together my own plotter as part of a desktop app, but would be easier
in Arduino IDE.

@per1234 per1234 transferred this issue from arduino/Arduino Nov 18, 2022
@per1234 per1234 changed the title Request for Fixed Y scale on serial plotter Request for Fixed Y scale Nov 18, 2022
@per1234 per1234 added type: enhancement Proposed improvement topic: code Related to content of the project itself labels Nov 18, 2022
@gohai
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gohai commented Feb 11, 2023

The ability to have a fixed scaling on the Y-axis is direly needed, and should be the default. Workarounds such as this one are possible but add unneeded complexity in a learning situation.

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