"WiFi Shield Not Present" - Help!

Hi, I had a look at the links, they all talk about standalone ESP8266. I have a shield.

  1. I know it works with my Arduino Uno R3.
  2. I can connect to my WiFi
  3. I can TX serial data characters to a remote console (port forward from my router)
  4. I can RX serial data from the remote console
  5. I can run a sketch on Uno to turn LED on/off in response to sent character.

All this works. The hardware works.

What does not work is the Blynk sketches ( all that i try) do not communicate with the shield.

As a test I left the SSID and PW as your default, this happened:

[19] Blynk v0.4.0 on Arduino Uno
[520] Connecting to YourNetworkName
[1536] Failed to disable Echo

It is not communicating with the ESP13 Shield from www.doit.am

Can I attach an image to show you what I have?

thnx