Serial1, Mega 2560

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I am totally lost. I would like to use a native serial port on my mega 2560 and I am having trouble trying to figure out how.
these are the original lines,
from the sketch 'test_with_gps_device.ino' by Mikal Hart

  1. SoftwareSerial nss(3, 4); //this is the line from the sketch
  2. Serial1 nss(3, 4); // this is the change I made
  3. test_with_gps_device.ino : 'Serial1' does not name a type // this is the compilation error
    I am looking to learn how to use those extra com ports on my board and I can't so far find any code examples or other real direction
    I would be just as happy with a place I could go for a solution as an answer to this issue now as I think I will need at least one more serial port for X-10 control

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Serial1 is used exactly the same way as Serial. You don't try and tell it which pins to use, as they are hardware assigned, so just get rid of that line. Serial1.begin() is all you need.

All of the Serial reference pages show how to use the Mega's additional ports.

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Thank you I see both my errors. {Edit; and fixed them}

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