itsy bitsy 32u4 SoftwareSerial ?

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AdrianPW
 
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itsy bitsy 32u4 SoftwareSerial ?

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Does anyone know if the itsy bitsy 32u4 (5V) support SoftwareSerial ports ?
If so, which pins can be used ?

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Re: itsy bitsy 32u4 SoftwareSerial ?

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The standard softwareserial library supports the atmega168 / atmega328, but. not the 32u4.

You could use hardware serial on the RX/TX pins of the 32u4 as there is an extra hardware UART on pin 0 and 1.

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Re: itsy bitsy 32u4 SoftwareSerial ?

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With Arduino, the ATmega32u4 hardware serial port on pins 0 and 1 are addressed as Serial1, e.g.

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Serial1.begin(115200);
Works MUCH better than SoftwareSerial!

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