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Getting Garbage value in serial monitor

Prithvi Shetty last edited by

I am currently working with mysensors along with Arduino Uno , somehow my node gives value that is LDR analog op but while viewing in the serial monitor the values are garbage. How can I rectify the error?
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mfalkvidd Mod last edited by @Prithvi Shetty

Hi @prithvi-shetty, welcome to the forum.
Could you post your sketch and a screen shot from the entire serial monitor window? That would make troubleshooting a bit easier.
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mfalkvidd Mod last edited by

By the way, the default baud rate used by MySensors is 115200 so try that if you haven't already.
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