ESP8266 Community Forum

- Wed Apr 20, 2016 11:47 am #45865 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

- Wed Apr 20, 2016 1:37 pm #45876 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/

- Wed Apr 20, 2016 2:26 pm #45880 Awesome! Thanks for the quick response, and glad it's as comprehensive as it is!! Definitely moving forward with my project with 8266 now!!