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By coshio
#193273
Hello everyone!
Confused student here trying to figure all of this stuff out.

The problem is that my wifi shield either remains in a state of looping forever or I have to restart both the Arduino and the esp8266 shield at precisely the right time for it to properly communicate, connect, and create a server as curtailed in the demo shield code. I have tried two Arduino boards both an official and an Elegoo copy, and the problem seems to persist. It is like the only part of the sent communication gets through and then the connection seems to drop.

I can either get something that looks like this as my serial output
https://i.gyazo.com/thumb/1200/_db0d795 ... e4-png.jpg (most rate)
or
https://i.gyazo.com/dbd53b71df9f65cc44b ... 93b1b7.png (second most rare)
or
https://i.gyazo.com/c18054726be40431993 ... 9e31b8.png (least rare)

Any ideas and is it just worth it to just treat this thing as a standalone device?

My other question is about the firmware for the device found here.
https://github.com/sparkfun/ESP8266_WiFi_Shield
Now, I see two bin files but which ones should I be flashing, and if I have to flash both, which order should I flash them in?

I would appreciate any help. I did have the same kind of wifi shield working a few days prior, but I got greedy and burnt out its EEPROM by pushing to much stuff too rapidly to it. I am not sure if this one might be defective or if I have a garbage solder joint somewhere. Please and thank you for any suggestions or input!
By Mars
#194486
Sounds like a problem I was having. Read my post and replies regarding can't flash the esp8266 thing (which led me to both flashing problems but importantly, needing to change my Uno code.

Mars