Flashing ESP8266 with Arduino Uno

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Esp-01 + Mega... Can't get hard serial working / newb esp questions

So I have an esp-01. I HAVE been able to get the standalone Blynk working well on it (after pulling the chip on an old Uno and using the board for comm), but I am at wits end trying to get it to work as a shield for my Mega. I will also admit that there is just an absurd amount of conflicting and old information out there on the topic. So ultimately, I just can’t get it to work: Here what I see in serial: [19] Blynk v0.3.1 [520] Connecting to NETGEAR21 [1530] Failed to disable Echo My new…