Arduino Serial Communication Between 2 Uno

Question

I'm trying to get two arduino uno to communicate. The slave reads a temp sensor as an analog value, then converts it to degrees C, then sends that value to the master, the master then prints the value to the serial monitor. This is the code I have thus far.

for the slave

const int tempPin = A0;

void setup(){
  Serial.begin(9600);
  delay(2000);
 }

  void loop() {

   //read sensor data to a variable 
   float volt = analogRead(tempPin) * 0.004882814;
   float degC = (volt - 0.5) * 100.0; 
   Serial.println(degC);

   delay(2000); //Not to flood serial port
  }

this is the code for the master

float tempC; 
void setup(){
  Serial.begin(9600);
  delay(2000);
 }

  void loop() {
 /**  check if data has been sent from the computer: */
 while (Serial.available()) {
 /* read the most recent byte */
    tempC = Serial.read();     //now byteRead will have latest sensor 
                              // data sent from Arduino1

    Serial.println(tempC);
  }
}

My issue is that I am reading on the serial monitor 4 different 2 integer values

Answer 1

Your slave is sending an array of characters and your master is reading the ASCII values of those characters.

If you send 25.43, Serial.println will send 7 characters 2, 5, ., 4, 3, carriage return and a newline.

The master will read them as 50, 53, 46, 52, 51, 13 and 10. Your code then prints:

50.00
53.00
46.00
52.00
51.00
13.00
10.00

On your master, the loop() should look like:

void loop() {
  if (Serial.available()) {
    char c = Serial.peek(); // just look at the next character on the serial buffer
    if (c == '\r' || c == '\n') // ignore the carriage return and newline characters
      Serial.read(); // remove the character from serial buffer by reading it
    else {
      tempC = Serial.parseFloat(); // read and parse the string representing the float value
      Serial.println(tempC);
    }
  }
}