ESP8266 Community Forum

- Thu Nov 09, 2017 8:59 am #71685 Dear forum members,

I am a complete noob on the MCU topic. I have an old raspberry pi type A with one usb port where I have put my wireless dongle into.
The esp8266 is connected following this schema from instructables.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Connect-an-ESP8266-to-your-RaspberryPi/.
A red led is burning on the esp8266.
On the Pi I have esptool.py and screen installed as well as esptools.
I can see a wireless signal named AI-THINKER_someNumber on my smart phone.
Think I have serial contact with the esp8266

Code: Select allpi@kamer-bv2:~/.local/bin $ ./esptool.py --port /dev/serial0 --baud 74880 version
esptool.py v2.1
2.1

Any other communication is answered with:

Code: Select allA fatal error occurred: Failed to connect to Espressif device: Timed out waiting for packet header


. While it is connecting and showing morse code like info the blue led blinks.

The question is how can I change the name and ip address of the wireless?

Please advise,
pablok