ESP8266 Community Forum

- Wed May 24, 2017 2:45 pm #66264 I am unable to get nay meaningful response from esp8266 12e on UART. I am getting garbage data (screenshot enclosed). I have tried many baud rates inlcuding 9600, 57600, 115200 etc. but no luck. I have made the connections as I found them on internet and manual of esp8266. I am trying to connect esp8266 on RaspberryPi 3 using onboard UART and cutecom terminal. I also tried on remote terminal but I am getting the same garbage. Please guide.

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- Wed May 24, 2017 10:22 pm #66268 It is important with the ESP8266 to have a 3.3V power supply capable of supply the current the ESP8266 needs.

Also, before connecting up to your Raspberry Pi or whatever, connect it up to a PC to verify it.

Communicating with the ESP8266 module in AT mode requires carriage return and line feed to be appended to each command.

- Thu May 25, 2017 4:57 am #66283 When most esp modules start up then their initial serial communication is done at 74880 baud. This is because the boot firmware assumes a 40MHz crystal but most use 26MHz.

A short while into the sequence then the module detects that is a 26MHz crystal and adjusts the baud rate to 115200. You should then be getting the rest of the message in plain text if the terminal is set to 115200. For a raw module with AT firmware this will have a reference to AT firmware and a ready message and should then accept AT commands.

Things that might be going wrong include:

1) Bad power as suggested.

2) Pins not configured to boot into normal run mode. GPIO15 should be pulled down to 0V via say a 1K resistor. EN (Enable should be connected to 3.3V. GPIO0 and GPIO2 should be at logic level 3.3V. Normally they will float high with internal pull ups but you can externally pull them up.

3) TXD0 and RXD0 connected wrong way round.

Many people use a USB serial adaptor to connect a PC to the TXD and RXD. These work well but you should not use the 3.3V offered by these modules as it can't supply enough current. I actually cut the 3.3V connection and put a 1117-3.3 regulator (fed from the 5V on to feed the pin instead. This gives a convenient way to power the esp.