I have no had this setup work at all → which is why I think something is probably off but not sure how to track it down. I’m on my Mac - running a parallels Ubuntu …
I get a lot of activity on the TX light - nothing ever on the RX light. I may pull another 8266 or esp32 from the house and see if I can flash one of those - but I’m not sure if the usb ones can work with a serial adapter.
For some reason on my linux box the device doesn’t seem to get recognized when I plug in the USB
So my assumption is the FT232 device is working correctly - because when cross wired it shows it can receive data and when correctly wired the lights seem to show it can send data… but other than that I’m at a loss.
I believe the Sonoff is correctly in flash-mode because if I dont hold the button long enough when I plug it in - the little blue pairing light starts flashing (I’ve never set these up before)…
Just very confused … maybe I’ll try to solder some wires