Setting up ESP8266

2024-12-12

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esp8266 Diagram

  1. In your Arduino IDE, go to File> Preferences

  2. Enter the following into the “Additional Board Manager URLs” field:

CODE 
 http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json

click the “OK” button:

Note:if you already have the ESP8266 boards URL, you can separate the URLs with a comma as follows

txt 
https://dl.espressif.com/dl/package_esp32_index.json, http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json

  1. Open the Boards Manager. Go to Tools > Board > Boards Manager…

  2. Search for ESP8266 and press install button for the “ESP32 by Espressif Systems“:

  3. That’s it. It should be installed after a few seconds.

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