WIFI for all ataris over serial!

[christos]

Ok, I connected the esp01 using the usb2ttl adapter I used to program it and I opened it in arduino ide's serial monitor. I don't read anything. I don't see the blue led lighting up at all.
Many thanks for your help czietz!

[czietz]

That's weird. Even if you had flashed it wrong, you should still see the boot ROM output, i.e. some messages at 74880 bit/s. The last idea I have is to check whether the CH_PD pin is really high, i.e. connected to Vcc. Other iirc the ESP-01 module won't boot.

[christos]

OK, I was very very stupid... I connected RX to TX on the max232 but I should have connected it RX-RX.

It works now. Thank you for your help czietz and thanks for your work on the firmware and the software package.

[christos]

BTW, any idea on how I can set it to serial2 so that I can get higher speeds?

[czietz]

If you have loaded the HSMODEM driver for serial2, you should be able to select that from the STinG config in the control panel. I don't have it running right now, look for something like "ports". Probably there is a STinG howto somewhere explaining this more in detail.

[christos]

I guess it needs some searching because I wasn't able to configure it. Anyway, thanks for your help

[christos]

OK, I've had partial success in getting sting to use serial 2 by changing the route.tab to Ser.2/LAN. However when I try to open the connection I see the blue led of the esp lighting up but eventually the system ends with connection time out.
I think I am missing something since I am not that experienced with the mega. The falcon only has one serial port so things were kind of easier there..