direction pin

[Michal He2]

Hi, could you implement direction control pin to begin? I have a max485 board installed, but I don't have hardware control of the data direction, I need to add the direction control pin attribute to the begin function, which is mapped to the physical port of the microprocessor.

[Alexander Emelianov]

This is already have implemented:

bool begin(SoftwareSerial* port, int16_t txPin=-1, bool direct=true);
bool begin(HardwareSerial* port, int16_t txPin=-1, bool direct=true);
bool begin(Stream* port, int16_t txPin=-1, bool direct=true);

Assing Serial port. txPin controls transmit enable for MAX-485. Pass direct=false if txPin uses inverse logic.

[rob040]

For "txPin", a better name would be "txEnablePin" to describe its function. The TX pin is normally the UART transmit data pin, not an enable pin.
For "direct", a better name would be "txEnableInvert" to describe its function.

[Alexander Emelianov]

Naming changed in 0bc538d. Just txEnableDirect used as using Invert notation will break API.

[rob040]

Agree about "txEnableInvert" would break the API, however, "Direct" is a non-descript name.
The logic alternative would be "txEnableNoninvert"