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I am using a ESP8266-01 connected to an FTDI interface to the Win 10 USB port. I have successfully flashed the ESP8266 and am using the LuaLoader 0.91 program.
I cannot interact with Lua on the ESP8266 and it does not show show the > prompt or respond to commands such as heap but I get a response from httpbin.org/net which continually repeats itself and no keyboard action or command can stop this so that I can obtain a >prompt.
I also got a similar response using the Arduino IDE for the ESP8266 so the problem is common to both.

Can anyone offer a suggestion of how to gain control of this device so that I can input commands.

Thanks in anticipation of a reply.

Don


Further to my original post, I am able to get a response from httpbin.org/net but this continually repeats itself ( not sure why this changed but I did beef up the 3V supply with a 2200uF cap). However I cannot interact with Lua on the ESP8266 and it does not show show the > prompt or respond to commands such as heap.

Not sure where to go from here but I will continue trying different ideas until I can interact with commands. I also got a similar response using the Arduino IDE for the ESP8266 so the problem is common to both.

All is well and works as it should using the LuaLoader 0.91 environment.

I must have got something out of sequence before but unsure what it was.

I have the same issue but in LuaLoader 0.91 environment.:


And no prompt pop up

And I tried all varities of bauds.

Which firmware version have you flashed?
How did you flash it?
Which ESP module?

Recent versions of the firmware use 115200 baud by default.

What do you receive at this baud rate when the ESP is starting from power?