ESP8266 Community Forum

Hi,
First time user and first time poster here. I am using Ubuntu 16.04.
My ESP8266 arrived in the mail yesterday. I found the ESP8266 as /dev/ttyUSB0 using the Arduino Serial Monitor. I pressed the Reset button on the ESP8266 and received in the Arduino Serial Monitor the message:

which is what I understand I am supposed to be geting.

I realise that I cannot use the Arduino Serial Monitor to send commands to the ESP8266 as the CRLF is not correct (or non-existent I believe).

So I opened a terminal and typed in:
However screen just terminates with the message:

What am I doing wrong? How can I get this to work?

Can't confirm but better try with sudo

in Ubuntu a user must be a member of the group 'dialout' to access serial ports. Using 'sudo' just bypasses security, and is not good practice. Add yourself to the dialout group like:



You will have to logout and back in for the group change to be used.

Also, you might find 'minicom' to be a more user-friendly terminal program.

I double checked, my username is already a member of dialout.

Also checking out minicom now.