Arduino/BlueSmirf Bluetooth Connection issues

Hey guys,

not sure if this is the right place for this question, but it involves an example code so maybe it is.

for a project of mine, of i have an older arduino mega 1280 connected to a blue smirf gold from sparkfun: http://www.sparkfun.com/products/158

however, with the example code provided with arduino 1.0, i can’t get anything to show up in the bluetooth serial port(using putty for the bluetooth port)

does anybody have an idea as to why the bluetooth would be seemingly not working? I have the hardware connections exactly as they say in the sample code:

RX(bluesmirf)–>TX(pin 3)(arduino)

TX(bluesmirf)–>RX(pin 2)(arduino)

VCC(bluesmirf)–>3.3v arduino mega

ground–>ground

Code:

/*

Software serial multple serial test

Receives from the hardware serial, sends to software serial.

Receives from software serial, sends to hardware serial.

The circuit:

  • RX is digital pin 2 (connect to TX of other device)

  • TX is digital pin 3 (connect to RX of other device)

created back in the mists of time

modified 9 Apr 2012

by Tom Igoe

based on Mikal Hart’s example

This example code is in the public domain.

*/

#include <SoftwareSerial.h>

SoftwareSerial mySerial(2, 3); // RX, TX

void setup()

{

// Open serial communications and wait for port to open:

Serial.begin(57600);

while (!Serial) {

; // wait for serial port to connect. Needed for Leonardo only

}

Serial.println(“Goodnight moon!”);

// set the data rate for the SoftwareSerial port

mySerial.begin(4800);

mySerial.println(“Hello, world?”);

}

void loop() // run over and over

{

if (mySerial.available())

Serial.write(mySerial.read());

if (Serial.available())

mySerial.write(Serial.read());

}

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