After playing about with direct AT commands I've opted to flash the ESP8266 module with lua. Downloaded the ESP8266 flasher.exe, clicked on flash and away it went until it closed the com port. Following a tutorial page I downloaded the ESPlorer v0.1 build 206 (
http://esp8266.ru/esplorer/). I cut and pasted the sample code that allows you to control a lED or two from a web page into the GUI and opened the com port. Having named it as init and clicked on the save to ESP it trundled away, noth the blue LED on the ESP device and the TX/RX lights on the FTDI adapter flashing away until the window in the applicatuions stated DONE. Duration 7785ms - com port closed - Success.
I closed the port and opened up a terminal window (I use Termite). However when I restart the ESP device (with or without the GND link for GPIO in place) the open I get
Code: Select allNodeMCU 0.9.5 build 20150318 powered by Lua 5.1.4
lua: cannot open init.lua
in the window.
I've reflashed the device and tried sending the Init code - each time the same results - What am I doing wrong. Obvioulsly Lua is installed as I get that message stating the build etc... but why is it that the program won't run ?