The other issue could be if you're powering the receiver from your PC's USB and you're printing text. In this case if no terminal app is connected to Espruino, the PC/Mac won't receive the data printed from Espruino, and Espruino will just sit there waiting once its output buffer is full.
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The other issue could be if you're powering the receiver from your PC's USB and you're printing text. In this case if no terminal app is connected to Espruino, the PC/Mac won't receive the data printed from Espruino, and Espruino will just sit there waiting once its output buffer is full.