ESP8266 Community Forum

- Tue Nov 29, 2016 11:27 am #58843 I haven't had the time to touch mine for ages, but to be honest.
I had to dig out my win7 laptop with its oh so slow startup to program it beyond the basic AT commands.

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I suffer from a bad case of random misfiring synapses!

- Tue Nov 29, 2016 11:50 am #58844 Not sure this will help much, but I do most of my 8266 programming from a Mac (mostly OSX 10.11 but now 10.12). Difference being I typically run a linux VM within virtualbox and use that (connecting the physical USB connection to the VM).

I have had a lot of problems with weird serial connection issues and restarts when powering and connecting to the modules over USB. I've finally narrowed it down to dodgy USB connection - either the cables I'm using (cheapos from aliexpress) don't make good connections, or my macbook air ports have worn down a bit. Since crimping a USB connector to make a tighter connection I've had no problems.

esp8266 otb-iot software - https://github.com/piersfinlayson/otb-iot
esp8266 otb-iot documentation - https://otb-iot.readthedocs.io/
esp8266 related blog - http://www.packom.net/