Serial Plotter?

[FoamyGuy]

Is there interest in having a serial plotter similar to the one inside of Mu?

[makermelissa]

Possibly. I believe I did one in another project (https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_WebSerial_Plotter) that could possibly be ported here.

[FoamyGuy]

Nice, thank you for the link, I hadn't seen that before.

I started tinkering with this idea a bit this morning, I've gotten as far as making a spot in the layout for it, and a button that reveals/hides it but no actual plotting functionality yet. I'm planning initially on putting it in the lighter grey box within the serial-page portion of the layout, but am open to feedback or other suggestions if you have different ideas about how or where to integrate it into the UI.

I've used Apex Charts (https://apexcharts.com/) for a few things recently and was thinking of using it for this plotter. But I have also used Chart.js in the past which it looks like the older serial plotter you worked on uses. I may opt for Chart.js instead and see how much of that older version I can re-use.

I'm assuming that the XT and XY plot types are like "value over time" vs. "value over other value". I hadn't considered that option before but it does seem like nice functionality.

The buffer size is nice as well, I thought about it some but hadn't settled on any solution beyond having the clear button also clear out the chart data in addition to the terminal output.