Hi all,

I am new to puredata. My aim is to have my PIR (already connected with Arduino-Pduino) activating a bang in my patch.
(Please see screenshots attached)

When I click on number 2 of the board the bang is triggered, althoug my aim is to have the motion sensor activating it.
What am I missing?

Many thanks for any help you might provide

@je We cannot tell from the screenshot. Anything at all arriving at a bang will trigger it.
You can connect a [print] object to the outlets of your objects and see in the Pd console the messages that are passing.
Best practice for the forum is to put your path or patches in a .zip file and upload that. We can then test it without having to rebuild the project from a screenshot. Screenshots can also hide connection order errors, so are not always useful.
David.

@whale-av Thank you, sorry this is my first post in the forum.
Here is my patch.

PIR Arduino Puredata.pd.zip

@je Welcome to the forum...!
I have changed very little, and tidied a bit....... this.zip
I have...
Put the fader range as 0 to 1.
Added some routing so that only button 2 starts the track, and connected that to the [open...( message.

I don't have an Arduino, so will not be much help on how to "connect" the PIR to button 2....... but I think you need to use the [comport] object or the [pduino] object for Pd to communicate with the Arduino.
Also there was a long time ago a test patch for the arduino....... https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/12362/pduino-problem/3 but a lot of objects will have changed as you will see in the thread.
However, there are some real Arduino/Linux experts on the forum who will help you.... such as @alexandros
David.

Jumping in due to David's prompt. I don't use PDuino, but I checked both yours and David's version of your patch, and there's no [arduino] or [comport] object. So, how do you expect to communicate with the Arduino using Firmata, since you don't have these two? [comport] is used for serial communication with USB devices, and [arduino] takes care to translate the user-friendly messages, such as "pinMode 2 input" to bytes in the Firmata protocol. I think the [arduino] abstraction includes the [comport] object, so it takes care of that for you.
From what I understand, you have to send this "pinMode" message to the [arduino] abstraction, and you'll receive some output from it. Connect a [print] to it to see what you get.

Hi @David and @Alexandros, thank you so much for your help, it is really appreciated.

Alexandros : the arduino abstraction includes comport, here is the arduino object pd:
arduino.pd.zip

I have followed your advice and included the arduino object and print, but this still not working.
Also, when I click on print nothing happens.

Here is my patch:
PIR_Arduino_Puredata V2.pd
What am I missing?

Many thanks again for any help you might provide

@je You are missing (at least - there might be other things) the port number for [comport].

In arduino.pd you will see the object [comport $1 57600]
When an object has a dollar argument like that the $1 will become the value of the first argument of the patch that contains the object.... as that patch is opened (we say "created" as Pd builds all the connections and does such substitutions as the patch is opened).
It is not the same in a message - dollar signs behave differently in a message - https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/9774/pure-data-noob/4

So in PIR_Arduino_Puredata V2.pd you need to give the argument a value which means changing the object [arduino] to [arduino 1] if the port to open is 1..... or [arduino 7] if using port 7.
To repeat myself.... the 1 will then replace the $1 in [comport $1 57600] ..... as the patch opens it will become [comport 1 57600] ...... even though you still see the $1 on the screen.
David.

I would also help to check the help patch of the [arduino] abstraction. I'm pretty sure everything is there.