Comments on: New NewSoftSerial coming

By: Mikal

Mikal — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:29:38 +0000

@Steve,

Sorry, no. There’s no technical reason that it couldn’t be updated though.

Mikal

By: steve smith

steve smith — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:40:04 +0000

Can NewSoftSerial change the parity and stop bits…? I need E,7,2 instead of N,8,1.

Thanks,
Steve

By: Mikal

Mikal — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:10:12 +0000

sakthi -- All the software published on this website is designed for the Arduino environment.

By: sakthi

sakthi — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:37:54 +0000

in which compiler Arduiniana NewSoftSerial.h> and tinyGPS.h is working.
idont knw … could you please send the details… i m worrkibg in pic ccs c,,

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:48:21 +0000

No problems, happy to help.

By: Mikal

Mikal — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:52:52 +0000

That’s because you don’t have to link in the Print library. Hmm… Perhaps there *is* some value to making write public. I’ll think about that. Meanwhile, thanks for sharing.

Mikal

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:04:16 +0000

Thanks for the tip, worked a treat .

What I did notice though is the sketch using the Picaso library demo (available from my web site) was about 1300 bytes larger with the print method than it was with the public write method (there are a lot of different calls made to print/write in the library). Screenshots below:

http://www.thepotterproject.net/images/Write.gif
http://www.thepotterproject.net/images/Print.gif

Cheers,

Jonathan

By: Mikal

Mikal — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:35:19 +0000

Jonathan,

I assume you mean you want to send commands withOUT a carriage return? If you want to send a raw byte (with no CR), you can simply do it this way:

nss.print(b, BYTE);

I would prefer to keep the write() method private, because this is part of the internal implementation, and publicizing it (so to speak) doesn’t really gain you anything, does it?

Thanks for the kind words!

Mikal

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:11:28 +0000

Hi Mikal,

Great library, I’ve used it in a couple of projects I’m working on .

I’ve made a small change in version 9 where I’ve made the write method public so that I can send commands with a carriage return. I’ve posted a copy on my web site if you want to have a look. If there’s an easier (or better) way to accomplish this please let me know.

Jonathan

By: SAM

SAM — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:42:52 +0000

How can I activate and deactivate this “New Software Serial”?
I mean that I have a time sensitive task and I don’t want to stop it for 15 ms because there is an incoming string into software RX pin.
Any suggestion, please?