SOLVED: Seeedstudio BT Shield

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After reading through this thread and still having big troubles with the Seeedstudio Bluetooth shield V2 I want to share some details that I found out. I got it alle more or less working now.

  • https://www.arduino.cc/en/Reference.SoftwareSerial
    If you are using the SoftwareSerial library to communicate with the shield, make sure you read about the restriction, this library has. For me this meant, I had to connect to other pins than D0-7 on my Arduino Mega. In the end I used one of the other Serial connections (Serial3 on pins 14 and 15)

  • The factory name of the shield is HMSoft (for me, at least)

  • The default pin for pairing was 1234 instead of 0000

  • The default baudrate was 9600 instead of 38400

  • As Sleuth255 already pointed out, the labels on the pin rows are correct. This means, that you have to cross-wire the serial communication lines. Tx to Rx and Rx to Tx

Good Luck!