ESP8266 Community Forum

Hey guys, I'm new to this Forum and have an installation problem which seemingly is not yet covered here.

After installing ESP8266 ver 2.4.1 using http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/packa ... index.json under Windows 8.1, my Arduino IDE (1.8.5) hangs (freezes) whenever I call save as to save a new sketch or file open to open some existing sketch. In order to continue the session at least I can kill the Java save as task in the taskmanager.
I tried to reinstall the IDE, but this didn't help.
Since file save is possible some workaround seems to be to manually create a project folder and an ino file and open the IDE using a double click on the ino file. It is possible to compile the project then, and to save changes ...

1. Anyone else having this problem?
2. Haven't found a way to uninstall ESP8266 yet? Is there one?

Thanks for any hints.

a) if you go into the board manager and klick on the esp8266 package there shold appear the "update" and "remove" buttons.

b) try installing the arduino IDE in "portable" mode:
don't use installer, use zip version. extract to some convenient place ("installation directory") and create subdir "portable" into "installation directory".
this also makes it easier to have various esp core versions (also IDE versions) in parallel and save/move your "installation"

Thanx. I'll try that after my holidays ...

schufti wrote:a) if you go into the board manager and klick on the esp8266 package there shold appear the "update" and "remove" buttons.

Thanks for your valuable hints. I finally got it sorted out following your "make it portable" instructions. Also the deinstall worked (but didn't help).

For others: The problem persisted when installing other Arduino versions including the latest beta and other JRE versions. To me the cause seems to be some wrong path somewhere in the configuration.