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:
NodeMCU 0.9.5 build 20150318 powered by Lua 5.1.4
lua: cannot open init.lua
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:
screen /dev/ttyUSB0
However screen just terminates with the message:
[screen is terminating]
What am I doing wrong? How can I get this to work?