I was under the assumption that the arduino 1.0 softwareserial is a rewritten NewSoftSerial authored by Mike Hart but was I so wrong! For a whole morning I was puzzled by it. Why didn't I get anything from my serial LCD keypad?! The not New SoftwareSerial must be very different under the hood from M…

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liuzengqiang February 3, 2013, 2:23pm 8

Apparently drjiohnsmith met the same problem as I did. Could this be the source of his problem?

The example had pins 2 and 3, which are not on the selection of supported pins.

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