Serial

beginSerial(speed)

Description

Initializes the serial port. Should be called from inside setup().

Parameters

speed: the baud rate to use for the serial communication (e.g. 9600 or 19200)

Returns

None

Note

Serial Arduino boards supports speeds up to 19200 baud. USB boards support up to 115200 baud (with release 0003 and later of the Arduino software).

See also

• serialAvailable
• serialRead
• serialWrite
• printByte
• printString
• printInteger
• printHex
• printOctal
• printBinary

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