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- Thu Apr 16, 2015 8:55 am #14705 oh nice! Retried with 1.6.1, updated the hardware folder with the one from arduino-1.6.1-p1-windows.zip, and done

- Thu Apr 16, 2015 10:20 am #14713 As all else seems to have failed you could try the nightly builds of V1.6.4 http://www.arduino.cc/en/main/software

- Thu Apr 16, 2015 10:55 pm #14762 just tried https://github.com/sandeepmistry/esp8266-Arduino with 1.6.1 and 1.6.3 on linux (default arduino distribution, not esp8266 fork) and i can compile just fine but can't see esptool in the programmer list.

why are we using esptool anyway, i thought that was deprecated in favour of esptool.py ?

my directory structure is:

Code: Select all~/arduino16/hardware/esp8266com
└── esp8266
    ├── boards.txt
    ├── cores
    ├── libraries
    ├── platform.txt
    ├── programmers.txt
    ├── sdk
    ├── tools
    └── variants


that's inside my "sketchbook" directory, not inside the arduino ide itself, although i've tried that also.

1.6.4 nightly is completely screwed up:

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- Sat Apr 18, 2015 7:48 am #14903 You don't need to have it listed as programmer, just follow the install instructions and test, if you can see the board and ports, then that's all you need with 1.6.3. If you are having other issues it is some other cause, for example, when i installed it wouldn't compile for me and i got misled down this rabbit hole, but in fact it is not the problem, i was getting compiler error but after downloading a missing dll it is now resolved for me.

Hope this helps.