Having trouble with AT commands/serial communication using the Arduino IDE 1.0.6 & Termite terminal program - AT (send) RX light goes of on the Mega board being used but the TX does not so I do not get an OK
How to cut a 3 month story into a short post... instead of a mega post!
Found this article http://hackaday.com/2014/08/26/new-chip ... ule-its-5/ very interesting and wanted to integrate the ESP8266 into an Arduino project as I have building robots of late.
Back in October 2014 I purchased 6 of these ESP8266EX ver. 090 Soc chips (espressif) from ebay http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/ESP8266-Seri ... 2a473ef71a
Docs/pin out/setup info here http://www.electrodragon.com/w/Wi07c
& here http://bbs.espressif.com/ the above is what I have.
After many failed attempts following examples tutorial using a Freetronics Mega using digital pin 18 & 19 (which are if I read correctly hardware serial 4 ports pins 18 TX & 18 RX, also tried with 2 different EtherMega's I have, I bought the USB serial adaptor and a Logic level converter wire everything up for the thousandth time and no luck sending AT commands to the modual from any freetronics device.
Aware of the recent FDTI drama's how does this effect freetronics boards? as they have no ftdi chip? I have powered the device externally using a variable voltage reg LM317 set to 3.3 volts as well as straight off the boards.
Setups used - Mac OSX Mountain Lion, Linux debian, Windoze 8 pro, Win 7, XP / TX is going to RX and vice a versa? 3.3volt always apparently these thing release the goodness of magic smoke at 5 volt but are hungry and can consume up to 300ma, they also can get quite warm!
I have covered most of the trouble shooting steps ie. dodgy jumper wire, usb cables, ect. ect., run the continuity tester over ever exposed possible pin, everything seems good on the freetronics hardware side & the ESP8266 / setup two elevens as master and slave to talk to each other just check hardware & sanity

So I'm lost....the ESP appears as a AP after power up using the arduino hardware so it can't be dead, I assume it's showing as an AP but is actually a Station? as AT+GMR does not list any info and I haven't been able to join my AP as a result.
I could go on all day I've poured 10's of hours into this still no cigar! happy to answer any questions, any ideas, thoughts, opinions would be much appreciated.
Cheers vero
