# Simple Serial > Thanks to [@siujamo](https://github.com/siujamo)'s donation. Simple Serial reuses the configuration of Redis connections to provide am easy-to-use serial service. ## Configuration Simple Serial reused the redis configuration of Spring Boot to provide redis support for the service. Besides, **Simple Serial** provides a configuration property `onixbyte.serial.start-serial` to specify the start value of a serial, and default to `0`.