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I setup the ardunio ide, https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software the boards manager and after a good amount of effort was able to upload some sketches and life was good.

Now this stopped working and I am feeling that I am pending more effort getting the ardunio ide to work with my esp8266 e12. I get an error message "can not communicate on com 3 "

is there a simpler way to upload sketches ( something that supports the esp8266 out of the box ) ?

Regards;
timfox123

if you buy a car with combustion engine and don't come to terms with the concept of gas stations ... how many sensible alternatives are there?

What is your prospect of "out of the box"?

Since you were so elaborate on everything except your setup maybe try to go for more "simple" to comprehend: windows instead of linux or mac-os, NodeMCU board instead of bare ESP-xx

But basically it breaks down to: you at least need to know via wich (virtual) serial port you want/need to communicate. Or in other terms: which "opening" to shove the fuel pistol into ...