ESP8266 Community Forum

- Sat Nov 14, 2015 3:14 am #33942 I am having trouble sending commands to my ESP8266 using putty. If I use Arduino serial monitor I can send commands with no problem, however when I send commands in putty I get no response at all. I see that many other users are using putty and would like to know what settings are needed to send commands.

Thank you
Rob

- Sat Nov 14, 2015 5:58 pm #34006 The AT firmware wants to see "\r\n" after every command. You have to enter these control characters manually in PuTTY; see PuTTY docs re control characters.

I like PuTTY, but for interfacing with the AT firmware I recommend Termite. You can configure Termite to automatically add the \r\n when you hit enter.

- Sat Nov 14, 2015 10:32 pm #34021 Thank you for your response, I will look into termite, I am familiar with putty which is why it was my go to.

- Wed Nov 18, 2015 10:52 am #34421 PUTTY does CR+LF !!!
I keep seeing those that can't read tell those that won't read that PUTTY can't do CR+LF line termination:
Start PUTTY, create a 'session' name it and save it, in the left hand panel Category -> Terminal -> Options controlling the terminal emulation -> CHECK the box to the left of: Implicit CR in every LF
In the left Category panel CLICK Session -> then Save the session with the new configuration.
You can add user name to the session, change the screen size and color, poke around, there is a lot to PUTTY.
FYI: I too am guilty of not RTM actions