What is Orion board's port 5 used for?

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I notice that none of the Blocks which sense or control the Orion board include Port 5 as an option. That seems wasteful - I could use the port.

Looking through some related topics, I see that Port 5 is a serial port, not digital. That seems to be limited to Bluetooth/wifi signals. The blocks that control LEDs, sense distance and light intensity, and read IR codes are all digital - correct?

There seems to be a way to reprogram Orion.Me header, but that seems a bit complicated. Beyond not using Port 5, any advice?

I have mBlock 5.4.3 on Mac PC, if that helps.

Thanks!

#2

@celderkin As you can see in the photo, the Orion board has no digital or analog pins running to port 5.

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It has only the GND on 5V (positive and negative), NC and DTR (No connection [not used] and Digital Transceiver Reset, which resets the input and output data), and TX and RX (input and output pins, for uploading data, etc.).
So 1, 2, 3, and 4 have digital pins (1 and 2 are PWM digital pins, so it can output different amounts of power [pulse-width modulation]),
6, 7, and 8 are Analog, and 5 would be used for resetting the board or internal communications, most likely. (Perhaps integration with other boards like Raspberry Pi?):

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I hope this helps! Let me know if this solved the issue @celderkin, and be sure to mention me as @Best_codes, so I can respond faster. Good luck!

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