I am not getting any output (or input) from the "Serial" device on my B-SoM module. After being unable to get it to work with my code, I dropped back to the Serial demo code from this page - peek() - Serial | Reference | Particle
// EXAMPLE USAGE
void setup()
{
Serial.begin(9600);
}
void loop()
{
Serial.write(45); // send a byte with the value 45
int bytesSent = Serial.write(“hello”); //send the string “hello” and return the length of the string.
}
I get no output from a Putty terminal, the Workbench monitor, or my RealTerm terminal emulator. I'm at a loss since I've used this feature extensively in the past.
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