Using UART Tx pin for other task

Hardware
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I need 3 UART’s to receive data from 3 devices. No handshaking or transmitting.
imp have 3 UART’s - all 6 pins are occupied. Can UART Tx pins be used as digital pins to write just 0 or 1 if all 3 UARTS are configured. Or at least one pin.

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Yes, you can. You should specify NO_TX in the uart configuration, but it will probably work just fine if you just configure the TX pins as GPIO.

https://electricimp.com/docs/api/hardware/uart/configure/

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@jwehr thanks! I will try.

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I did something similar with my garage Imp, where I only needed Rx, and wanted a digital out, so used pins 1 & 2. The code looked like this:

`
DistanceSensor <- hardware.uart12;
DoorController <- hardware.pin1;

DistanceSensor.configure (9600,8,PARITY_NONE,1,NO_TX,DistanceSensorEvent);
DoorController.configure (DIGITAL_OUT);`