Cannot perform UART - Communication using ESP8266

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  1. My goal is: Using esp32 and selecting the UART interface 1, I can do successfully communicate with another UART device.

  2. My actions are: The Same I am not able to do it using ESP8266. Tried using UART1 and UART2 interfaces of ESP8266, My UART code is the same for both ESP32 and ESP8266, I am just building for different platforms and selecting different UART interfaces of the microcontrollers.

  3. The result I see is: My other UART enabled device is not performing as per the same UART instruction when I try to communicate using ESP8266 but the same UART device will perform as per instruction when I use ESP32 with UART interface 1.

  4. My expectation & question is: How do I achieve this using ESP8266.

side note: My UART connections are alright.

If anyone knows please let me know how to achieve it.

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Only UART0 has rx and tx on ESP8266. UART1 has only tx and UART2 does not exist.

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@nliviu Thank you for your replay, Yes I am able to do UART communication (Using UART Interface 1), but I want to know what is RXD2 (GPIO 16, on development board represented as D7) and TXD2 (GPIO 17, on development board represented as D8), because of these I thought ESP8266 has three UART interfaces.

Regards

Lokesh CJ

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Did you check your specific board datasheet for the proper definition of those names and which pin they are routed to in the board; and then the ESP8266 chip datasheet for the proper definition of those pins and the GPIO routing capabilities ?