You can use the TXD and RXD pins as GPIO. Obviously they are not operational during a flash upload operation which may mean swapping wires to do uploads but if you use OTA then that doesn't matter after the first flash. Using RXD doesn't affect any serial debug print but using TXD will. Where you a...

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