ESP8266 Community Forum

- Mon Nov 23, 2015 3:57 pm #34802 Hi,

I've some doubts about the flashing process of a NodeMCU v0.9 board. After the esptool.py module completes flashing, the miniterm python module is started automatically and prints out only meaningless characters - some problems with the encoding on my side?

After this situation, I've tried out the serial terminal from ESPlorer, but I've realized that the board needs to be restarted after the flashing process. Is this the normal behavior? The reset function of "auto programming circuit" is not working well?
Board Schematic: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nodem ... IT_SCH.png

Thank you.

- Tue Nov 24, 2015 4:45 am #34844 Hi, I do not have the board that you are refering, but anyway:

The meaningless garbage is the ESP8266 output at 76800 baud. This is normal, and can be safely ignored. If you want to see what is the output, just connect to it with this baud rate.

Regarding reset, can't be ure, but probably is normal.

- Tue Nov 24, 2015 11:18 am #34891 1) Garbage characters.. its normal.
2) After flashing, ESP need to be reset. I think esptool doesn't do that automatically.

-Venkatesh

- Tue Nov 24, 2015 3:49 pm #34916 Thanks for your replies!