Finally trying to do some serial- Won't compile :(

[ScaleRobotics]

Well I heard back from Melab. They confirmed the 2nd Usart has been overlooked in the 16F devices.

Or, to throw a really big wrench in, sounds like you could change to a PIC18F6722 or similar PIC18 device, and have two serial ports.

[cncmachineguy]

@ steve, somewhere I missed the part about designing hardware around the UNKNOWN compiler limitations instead of the hardware requirements.

@walter, I will look at those chips and see if I want to change.

Now don't get me wrong, this is no show stopper by any means. Simply a matter of (in)convience

[mister_e]

It's a hidden free feature not much

I feel your pain, I think we all hit one of those feature once in a while. At least Melabs are aware and they have it listed, so it's all good. Just need to wait a lil bit.

Fortunately, in your case, "this is no show stopper by any means".