ESP8266 and softwareserial

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Re: ESP8266 and softwareserial

By matbor
- Fri Aug 14, 2015 9:20 pm #26032
plingboot wrote:I'm also using it to connect to a serial GPS module. I'm using hardware serial to receive at 9600 on GPIO1 and GPIO3 (just disconnect the programmer after the upload adn restart) and hardware Serial1 (TX only) to output debug stream of GPS sentences . Works great.


Thx all, will try that.
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Re: ESP8266 and softwareserial

By matbor
- Mon Aug 17, 2015 8:47 am #26263 For anyone else that gets stuck in the future, I just modified the TinyGPS++ example to work with it.
https://github.com/matbor/TinyGPSPlus_ESP8266

after uploading sketch these are the serial connections;
1.Disconnect console cable.
2. connect GPS (TX) -> ESP8266's (RX) - serial
3. Connect console cable (RX) to ESP8266 GPIO#2 (TX) - serial1 for debugging.
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