diff --git a/nodes/core/io/25-serial.html b/nodes/core/io/25-serial.html
index aad37dce8..225e4dc3b 100644
--- a/nodes/core/io/25-serial.html
+++ b/nodes/core/io/25-serial.html
@@ -27,10 +27,9 @@
 
 <script type="text/x-red" data-help-name="serial in">
     <p>Reads data from a local serial port.</p>
-    <p>Can either <ul><li>wait for a "split" character (default \n)</li>
+    <p>Can either <ul><li>wait for a "split" character (default \n). Also accepts hex notation (0x0a).</li>
     <li>Wait for a timeout in milliseconds for the first character received</li>
-    <li>Wait to fill a fixed sized buffer</li>
-    </ul>
+    <li>Wait to fill a fixed sized buffer</li></ul></p>
     <p>It then outputs <b>msg.payload</b> as either a UTF8 ascii string or a binary Buffer object.</p>
     <p>If no split character is specified, or a timeout or buffer size of 0, then a stream of single characters is sent - again either as ascii chars or size 1 binary buffers.</p>
 </script>
diff --git a/nodes/core/io/25-serial.js b/nodes/core/io/25-serial.js
index a24dcdf03..5a3f92d1d 100644
--- a/nodes/core/io/25-serial.js
+++ b/nodes/core/io/25-serial.js
@@ -114,7 +114,13 @@ module.exports = function(RED) {
                 this.serialConfig.stopbits,
                 this.serialConfig.newline
             );
-            var splitc = new Buffer(node.serialConfig.newline.replace("\\n","\n").replace("\\r","\r").replace("\\t","\t").replace("\\e","\e").replace("\\f","\f").replace("\\0","\0"));
+
+            if (node.serialConfig.newline.substr(0,2) == "0x") {
+                var splitc = new Buffer([parseInt(node.serialConfig.newline)]);
+            } else {
+                var splitc = new Buffer(node.serialConfig.newline.replace("\\n","\n").replace("\\r","\r").replace("\\t","\t").replace("\\e","\e").replace("\\f","\f").replace("\\0","\0"));
+            }
+
             this.port.on('data', function(msg) {
                 // single char buffer
                 if ((node.serialConfig.newline == 0)||(node.serialConfig.newline == "")) {
@@ -145,9 +151,9 @@ module.exports = function(RED) {
                     else if (node.serialConfig.out === "count") {
                         buf[i] = msg;
                         i += 1;
-                        if ( i >= Number(node.serialConfig.newline)) {
+                        if ( i >= parseInt(node.serialConfig.newline)) {
                             var m = new Buffer(i);
-                            buf.copy(m,0,0,i-1);
+                            buf.copy(m,0,0,i);
                             if (node.serialConfig.bin !== "bin") { m = m.toString(); }
                             node.send({"payload":m});
                             m = null;