this did not work. 11 stays low and 12 stays high even if I comment out all of the serial1 references from the ino

Serial1.begin(115200);

I figured out that there has to be a second delay between the 2 begins and now the board does not lockup but I still can't get anything to appear using Serial1.println("123"); Serial0 works

I looked through that entire thread and I have all of the correct settings. Even just calling Serial1.begin(115200); causes the board to stop.

I did try that by sending data to Serial1 but even calling begin on serial1 causes the board to crash.Serial1 must be not setup correctly somehow?

do I need to do anything in the ino to setup the pins to be serial1 or will just referring to it automatically set it up?

The Serial1 is mappable to the following pins

If I could just get the pickup points that would give me a serial stream I could tie into that would be great. I believe that two fo the D# points on the board would be accessible as serial1 or are th