Thanks everyone, I to have confirmed that running the following commands gets the UART working.

sudo pigpiod
pigs m 14 0 m 15 0 # Set GPIO 14/15 to ALT0

rzusman wrote:You probably also need to disable the getty process, too.
Google for it.

This was done in the following command.
sudo raspi-config

dmesg | grep tty

also confirmed that the 'console [ttyAMA0] enabled' was not present.

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