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SoftwareSerial: begin(speed)

Description

Sets the speed (baud rate) for the serial communication. Supported baud rates are 300, 600, 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600, 14400, 19200, 28800, 31250, 38400, 57600, and 115200.

Parameters

speed: the baud rate (long)

Returns

none

Example

// include the SoftwareSerial library so you can use its functions:
#include <SoftwareSerial.h> #define rxPin 10
#define txPin 11 // set up a new serial port
SoftwareSerial mySerial =  SoftwareSerial(rxPin, txPin) ; void setup ( )  {
  // define pin modes for tx, rx:
  pinMode (rxPin, INPUT ) ;
  pinMode (txPin, OUTPUT ) ;
  // set the data rate for the SoftwareSerial port
  mySerial.begin ( 9600 ) ;
} void loop ( ) {
  // ...
}

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