Weird issue with serial monitor using servos with an Arduino Uno

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I've been playing with the servo/leds controller example from https://learn.adafruit.com/multi-tasking-the-arduino-part-1?view=all

In the Update function for the Servo, I added the following for debug purposes:

Serial.print("Position: ");
Serial.println(pos);

producing

Position: 180
Position: 90
Position: 0
Position: 90
Position: 180
Position: 90
Position: 0

as an output in the Serial Monitor during the execution.

Then I changed those two lines to:

Serial.print("Position: " + pos);

which produced this output

Position: 



Position:

(seems to print 'Position' whenever the value is 0.)

From the logic point of view, both should be the same so I've trying other things suspecting some kind of interference between the servo and the serial communication withouth success like:

a)Different baud rates (1200, 2400, 9600 up to 115200), keeping the code in sync with the Serial Monitor. b)Powering the Arduino with an external power source instead of the USB connection to my laptop. Same by powering the servo independently c)Disconnecting the servo direcly

I would really appreciate if anyone has a clue of what is happening here. Cheers!

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1 Answers

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I assume pos is an int. You can cast pos to String to solve the problem. Try this.

Serial.println("Position: " + (String)pos);

Or, cast your entire output to String like this.

Serial.println((String)"Position: " + pos);