The only other thing that might be happening is that the data is inverted. Fortunately, the NewSoftSerial class can un-invert the data for you, if you set the (optional) 3rd argument to true.
The only other thing that might be happening is that the data is inverted. Fortunately, the NewSoftSerial class can un-invert the data for you, if you set the (optional) 3rd argument to true.