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I bought myself this, https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/esp8266-phat.

I started with looking through this blog post, http://richardhayler.blogspot.nl/2016/02/getting-started-with-esp8266-iot-phat.html. At point number 5.

5. We need to stop the Pi using the Serial port for console messages. Edit /boot/cmdline.txt to remove 'console=ttyAMA0' from the line. You should be left with:

dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline fsck.repair=yes rootwait

Instead of console=ttyAMA0 I have this console=serial0,115200. Then, I tried with AND without console=serial0,115200 in my /boot/cmdline.txt. I am pretty sure the serial connection is disabled as well.

As the tutorial says, I tried to run my ESP8266 pHat with minicom -b 115200 -o -D /dev/ttyAMA0. But it does not working (after I pressed enter there is a delay and then the program closes). Since I do not have /dev/ttyAMA0 I tried with /dev/serial0 still does not working.

I tried to run installation from curl -sS get.pimoroni.com/iotphat | bash as well but same thing happened.

I am using latest Raspbian Jessie and Raspberry PI 3 Model B

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  • http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/45571/5538 – goldilocks Jan 23 '17 at 19:44
  • That might be related, but I am not sure what should I do after reading that :(. – notalentgeek Jan 23 '17 at 19:49
  • Added core_freq=250 in /boot/config.txt still the same result after reboot. – notalentgeek Jan 23 '17 at 19:56
  • Take away point is that by default ttyAMA0 is occupied by the bluetooth, and serial0 corresponds to a potentially less reliably timed "mini UART" -- but you can swap them back with a device tree overlay in config.txt. Minicom seems to be "fussier" than other serial interaces such as screen; I'm not sure if I ever got it to work with an ESP8266. The thing with which I've had the most success is miniterm.py, which I think you will get if you apt install python-serial. – goldilocks Jan 23 '17 at 19:57
  • Hey mate, it is working by putting these in /boot/config.txt, dtoverlay=pi3-disable-bt and enable_uart=1. Thanks. – notalentgeek Jan 23 '17 at 20:11

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it is working by putting dtoverlay=pi3-disable-bt and enable_uart=1 in /boot/config.txt.

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