xorbit / LiFePO4wered-Pi

Access library, command line tool and daemon for the LiFePO4wered/Pi module
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How to use the RPI UART with LiFePO 4 wered/Pi™ connected #2

Closed biank88 closed 8 years ago

biank88 commented 8 years ago

I think that it's not mentioned in the documentation if it would be possible to use the UART module and the lifepo4weredPi at the same time.

xorbit commented 8 years ago

It mostly is an issue of getting the UART physically connected. If you can connect to it by extending the pins or soldering a wire to it, you can use the UART. The LiFePO4wered/Pi only uses the UART TX pin to detect shutdown.

biank88 commented 8 years ago

That's nice! Thank you very much. BTW I'm asking these questions here on Github, instead of asking them privately, so that they might be useful for somebody else. I hope this is not a problem for you.