B4R Question Arduino Serial Port

[iCAB]

Hi All

If I understood properly from what I have been reading in this forum, we are unable to use the main serial port on the arduino (for example Arduino Nano) in a real application, instead it is recommended to use SoftwareSerial.

Can someone comment please.
if the above is true ,why can't we compile the final program to use the actual hardware serial port?

 

[Peter Simpson]

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[iCAB]

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Thanks Peter for your reply.
I clearly understand that. But what i am wondering about, is how to use the Hardware UART (on boards with a single UART) as I see all examples start with

 Serial1.Initialize(115200)

which I am assuming it takes over the UART.
I know I can use the software serial ports, but I think they come with extra overhead, so I would rather avoid that if possible

Am I missing something?
Thanks in advance

 

[Erel]

we are unable to use the main serial port on the arduino

Not true. You can use it.

Example: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/arduino-raspberry-pi.65820/#content

Make sure not to call Log as it will send the text to the serial port.