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Serial / Software serial on 8266

PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 11:47 am
by Steve Jones
I think it's great that there's arduino IDE support for the 8266, but I'm having trouble finding a comprehensive list of features that carry from the original Arduino over to the 8266.. I can't imagine EVERY feature is available, since it's different hardware, and I've seen references to pin16 being "not quite the same" as a normal GPIO pin, but nothing that shows a list of potential gotchas or differences to keep in mind. Specifically right now, I'm interested to find out if there are limitations on using softwareserial on any of the GPIO ports, but it would be great to know if there's a list of confirmed working, or non-working modules.. Does such a thing exist?

Thanks!
Steve

Re: Serial / Software serial on 8266

PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 1:37 pm
by martinayotte
Although the list is maybe not exhaustive, here it is :

http://esp8266.github.io/Arduino/versio ... th-the-ide

About SoftwareSerial, it is been part of the distro :

.arduino15/packages/esp8266/hardware/esp8266/2.2.0/libraries/SoftwareSerial/

Re: Serial / Software serial on 8266

PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 2:26 pm
by Steve Jones
Awesome! Thanks for the quick response, and glad it's as comprehensive as it is!! Definitely moving forward with my project with 8266 now!!