Arduino Micro and UART serial

In Arduino UNO it’s very easy to debug a sensor (say GPS). Just connect to pins RX and TX, open a Serial monitor and off you go.

This is not the case with Arduino Micro, as it shares Serial with USB.

Hardware serial

So here is a solution:

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(115200); //This pipes to the serial monitor
  while(!Serial);
  Serial1.begin(9600); //This is the UART, pipes to sensors attached to board
  while(!Serial1);
}

void loop() {
  if ( Serial.available() ) {
    int inByte = Serial.read();
    Serial1.write( inByte );
  }
  if ( Serial1.available() ) {
    int inByte = Serial1.read();
    Serial.write( inByte );  
  }
}

Now connect your GPS RX to Micro’s TX and GPS TX to RX on Micro, open the Serial monitor and see the data coming in!

Software serial

If you want to use Software serial, here’s example:

#include <SoftwareSerial.h>

SoftwareSerial mySerial(10, 11); // RX, TX

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(115200); //This pipes to the serial monitor
  while(!Serial);

  mySerial.begin(9600);   
}

void loop() {
  if (mySerial.available()) {
    Serial.write(mySerial.read());
  }
  if (Serial.available()) {
    mySerial.write(Serial.read());
  }
}

Now conect sensor RX to pin 11 (TX) and sensor TX to pin 10 (RX)