Serial Rx Only

[capricorn one]

Wondering if it's possible to use only the Rx or Tx pin of the Serial port ( specifically on pin 8, Serial3, of Teensy 3.1/3.2 ). I'm using the Audio adapter board which remaps the SPI mosi pin to pin 7, which is the Rx pin of Serial3. I would like to be able to still use the hardware Serial3 port though at the same time, with pin 8 as Serial3 Tx pin, and pin 7 as SPI Mosi pin. Anyone ever try this? I know it would be a low level io pin remapping, but just wondering if the hardware is capable of doing this at all. Thanks in advance!

[PaulStoffregen]

I would like to be able to still use the hardware Serial3 port though at the same time, with pin 8 as Serial3 Tx pin, and pin 7 as SPI Mosi pin. Anyone ever try this?

Yes. In fact, I did this just a couple weeks ago. Here's the working code:

https://github.com/PaulStoffregen/SO...oller.ino#L176

All you need to do is use Serial3.begin(baud) before SPI.setMOSI(7) & SD.begin(pin). Pins 7 and 8 get configured for Serial3. Then SD.begin() steals pin 7 for MOSI, but pin 8 continues to work as Serial3 transmit. Obviously you can't use Serial3 to receive like this, but you can send. That project uses Serial3 to send messages to a motor controller which vibrates a 20 foot tall structure.... to add dramatic effect to sounds played on little speakers.

[capricorn one]

Awesome, thanks Paul!

After some digging and rethinking, I realized I really need the Rx as well. Was about to look for some kind of SPI->UART converter chip, which I wanted to avoid, when I realized that just like the UART pins, a lot of the core functionality of the MK20DX is able to be remapped to different IO pins. So, unless I'm wrong, I think I can move the I2S0_MCLK from pin 11 (MK20 pin 51) to pin 28 (MK20 pin 53) according to the signal multiplexing page in the datasheet. This gives me back access to pin 7 for UART2_RX. I'm guessing you didn't do this on the audio adapter board because pin 28 is on the underside connections, not the standard header pins?

Thanks for your help Paul!