Hi,I think I have over googled this and ended up confused on what should be easy question!
So apologize in advance
I am almost finished with my school prelim exams project, as well as various micro's and chips it has a Raspberry Pi on it to do a certain task. I noticed that it has RS232 pins on the GPIO and this would be handy for communicating with one of the modules on the project, the other modules use the SPI bus but one in particular would be better separated and on serial.
Now having googled and googled I am unsure if the serial pins are reserved for connecting to the PI or if you can use them for communicating to other micro's or a mix?
Does anyone know if these can be used for general serial coms or are they purely for SSH etc? This is my first project with a PI and its been a bit of steep curve! I am ok with most other micro's but this has kind of stumped me
So apologize in advance
I am almost finished with my school prelim exams project, as well as various micro's and chips it has a Raspberry Pi on it to do a certain task. I noticed that it has RS232 pins on the GPIO and this would be handy for communicating with one of the modules on the project, the other modules use the SPI bus but one in particular would be better separated and on serial.
Now having googled and googled I am unsure if the serial pins are reserved for connecting to the PI or if you can use them for communicating to other micro's or a mix?
Does anyone know if these can be used for general serial coms or are they purely for SSH etc? This is my first project with a PI and its been a bit of steep curve! I am ok with most other micro's but this has kind of stumped me