Terminal Gibberish?

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  • I'm getting a bunch of gibberish when connecting that seems to be blocking any actual usage. Wondering where I went wrong.

    I'm using a HiLetgo ESP8266 ESP-12E with my Macbook Pro M1. I am able to successfully run example sketches via Arduino IDE so I don't think it's a hardware issue.

    Here's the flash command and output:

    [~/Projects/rr-buttons/esp8266-firmware]­ $ esptool.py \
    >   --port /dev/tty.usbserial-0001            \
    >   write_flash                               \
    >   --erase-all                               \
    >   --flash_freq 80m                          \
    >   --flash_size 4MB-c1                       \
    >   --flash_mode qio                          \
    >   0x00000                                   \
    >   espruino_2v11_esp8266_4mb_combined_4096.­bin
    esptool.py v3.2
    Serial port /dev/tty.usbserial-0001
    Connecting....
    Detecting chip type... Unsupported detection protocol, switching and trying again...
    Connecting....
    Detecting chip type... ESP8266
    Chip is ESP8266EX
    Features: WiFi
    Crystal is 26MHz
    MAC: 58:bf:25:d7:3c:99
    Uploading stub...
    Running stub...
    Stub running...
    Configuring flash size...
    Erasing flash (this may take a while)...
    Chip erase completed successfully in 16.0s
    Flash params set to 0x006f
    Compressed 4194304 bytes to 369756...
    Wrote 4194304 bytes (369756 compressed) at 0x00000000 in 52.3 seconds (effective 641.7 kbit/s)...
    Hash of data verified.
    
    Leaving...
    Hard resetting via RTS pin...
    

    But when I go to connect via screen I get gibberish before the Espruino prompt and the terminal becomes unresponsive to any keyboard input.

    �d�b�{l{l$ܞ|�$�|�$�c|���2�r�c�B��oN�$on�­��#p��${lr$p�o��lco�|��#��on�$��$`�2n$`n­{�ےoےd`p�N�s�ܜ��#N�|�ߌ�b��no�l �od`N{�ےo�{lp�N�r�ܜ����co�|����b��oo�$`�­nNl or���N���o쒜p��n|�l$$l`B�����2r��l�o��N�l­`�N�$���
     ____                 _
    |  __|___ ___ ___ _ _|_|___ ___
    |  __|_ -| . |  _| | | |   | . |
    |____|___|  _|_| |___|_|_|_|___|
             |_| espruino.com
     2v11 (c) 2021 G.Williams
    
    Espruino is Open Source. Our work is supported
    only by sales of official boards and donations:
    http://espruino.com/Donate
    Flash map 4MB:1024/1024, manuf 0x20 chip 0x4016
    
    >
    

    The gibberish varies but I haven't figured out any way to decode it other than thinking "that looks a lot like control characters...":

    rll��|�$�|��l�#|���p�r�b�#�p~�o�$oN���bp­��l{l{lp�o��lbn�|��#�|~�o�d��l �no$`Ns���Nےl`p�o�{�ܜ��bn�|�߄�p��oN�l �nl ���n�r��n|�$ldl b��|r�l�n��n�d`��r�$�$�
    
    s$l����$�|�d�b|���2�{�#�B��no�$no���cp��­l{l{lp�o��$bn�|���B��no�$��l �nl`Ns���o��$`p�o�s�����bn�|䏞��c��on�l`�­oo$`or�����dp�o�r������$bN�|���b��oN�$`�­2Nol n{���n����o�|2s��o|�$$l$`#��|r�$�N��n�$`­��r�d���
    

    Any ideas what I screwed up?

  • Don’t worry about that. This is because the boot baud rate is 74880. In WebIDE use 115200 to communicate with the esp8266.

  • those are boot rom messages that would be correct if device had 40Mhz external crystal fitted, with widely used 26MHz crystal the baud rate is not 115200 but 115200/40*26=74880

  • So using screen /dev/tty.usbserial-0001 115200 the terminal is unresponsive to any keystrokes.

    Using espruino -p /dev/tty.usbserial-0001 --ide I get

    Espruino Command-line Tool 0.1.40
    -----------------------------------
    
    Connecting to '/dev/tty.usbserial-0001'
    Abort trap: 6
    

    Using the web ide I get the attached images.

    Where do I go next?


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  • Ok, explicitly changing the Web IDE baud rate to 115200 got the web ide working and I'm currently poking around how to access hardware, etc...

    Any ideas why I would be running into the other issues with CLI and local IDE?

    Both espruino -p /dev/tty.usbserial-0001 -b 115200 --ide and espruino -p /dev/cu.usbserial-0001 -b 115200 --ide still fail with Abort Trap: 6, even if I leave off the --ide option.

    Uploading a file fails as well in the same way.

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