I’ve attributed some weird behavior to my lack of C++ expertise. However, I decided to spend a couple of days to track down missing serial output on my USB COM3 Windows 10 port. After trying a bunch of simple tests and finding a hint in documentation about serial stuff happening in Loop(), I verif…

@Erhughes1944 , I always use Serial.begin() in setup() and never had any problems. If you can share you code, I may be able to advise.

[image] Erhughes1944: Serial.available() I think the lower bound for Serial.available() might be 0 --> https://docs.particle.io/reference/firmware/electron/#available- I usually use while(!Serial.available() Something minimal to test: int counter = 20; void setup(){ counter = -10; Ser…

retract retract Setup() s/b setup() arghh!

Serial.begin kills Setup() in Electron

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Serial.begin kills Setup() in Electron

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