Please help: PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API (application.lua:1: unexpected symbol near ''ï'') #10
Description
Please forgive me if this is an easy issue that I am just to much newb to know about it or figure it out. I have googled the "unexpected symbol" error and found it suggested that it could be an issue with hidden characters due to encoding. I copied your raw application.lua file and pasted it into visual basic and saved it encoded with UTF-8 without signature as application.lua. Sadly, this made no difference... About the 3rd time formatting and re-loading the .lua files it I got a the same error but with a "?" instead of the 'ï'. Please help. I'd really like to get this working.
Please see error in action below.
NodeMCU custom build by frightanic.com
branch: 1.5.4.1-final
commit: 1885a30bd99aec3384**********************
SSL: true
modules: cjson,file,gpio,http,net,node,tmr,uart,wifi,tls
build built on: 2017-03-23 20:41
powered by Lua 5.1.4 on SDK 1.5.4.1(39cb9a32)
Connecting to WiFi access point...
Waiting for IP address...
Waiting for IP address...
Waiting for IP address...
WiFi connection established, IP address: 192.168.1.23
You have 3 seconds to abort
Waiting...
Running application...
PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API (application.lua:1: unexpected symbol near '?')
ets Jan 8 2013,rst cause:2, boot mode:(3,6)
load 0x40100000, len 24580, room 16
tail 4
chksum 0xaf
load 0x3ffe8000, len 2260, room 4
tail 0
chksum 0xce
load 0x3ffe88d4, len 136, room 8
tail 0
chksum 0x52
csum 0x52
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