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Mikal Hart replied to Robert Beatty's discussion MTK GPS using NewSoftSerial.h
"Robert,
 
I'm the NewSoftSerial guy, and I do just what you're describing all the time--read GPS data through a "soft" serial port so that I can keep the "real" one available for debugging and other tasks.
 
I recommend you take a look at my sample…"
Oct 1, 2011
Mikal Hart replied to Recmaster's discussion NewSoftSerial and AP 2.7.1
"Hi Recmaster--

I think that the _vector* symbols probably refer to the interrupt vectors that NewSoftSerial harnesses to perform RX. My guess is that somewhere else in your code someone is trying to use pin change interrupts. Is that possibly true?…"
Nov 23, 2010
Mikal Hart replied to Diarmuid Wrenne's discussion Software Serial for GPS
"Diarmuid,

If you'd like to see an example of exactly such a project -- one that uses NewSoftSerial to gather information from a serial GPS module -- you might take a look at something I built called the "Reverse Geocache Puzzle".

Mikal Hart"
Oct 9, 2009