I know this is an old post, hopefully it pops up somewhere. I'm trying to implement the same concept but I don't understand what I'm doing wrong.
I want to run an instance of softwareserial in the library files, the error I'm running into though is
ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'SoftwareSerial' with no type
The line it refers to is
private:
SoftwareSerial *SSerial;
in my header file.
I attempted the change mentioned by PaulS where I instantiate the softwareserial when I create the constructor
Library::Library(): SSerial(4,5)
{
}
I've looked at examples and tried to match them, my first attempt everything worked properly except when I was trying to retrieve data using SSerial.available() and SSerial.read()
My code works fine without the software serial on the standard TX/RX pins, so what I'm trying to narrow down is what exactly do I need to place into my .h and .cpp files to have the software serial functioning properly.