RN-XV Serial vs SoftwareSerial

Wireless & IoT
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I’m finding the software serial interface to be a bit unstable for anything over 9600. I want to use the UART interface in normal operation but without rewriting all of my code. The best solution might be to use an alias, but you can’t instantiate/alias the Serial class the way you can SoftwareSerial. I’m a hardware guy :confused:

How can I do something like the following?

#ifdef DEBUG
  #include <SoftwareSerial.h>
  SoftwareSerial wifiSerial(8,9); 
  Serial debugSerial;
#else
  Serial wifiSerial;
#endif

void setup()
{
  
#ifdef DEBUG    
    char buf[32];

    debugSerial.begin(57600);
    debugSerial.println("Starting");
    debugSerial.print("Free memory: ");
    debugSerial.println(wifly.getFreeMemory(),DEC);
etc...