ESP8266 Community Forum

- Wed May 27, 2015 2:15 pm #18638 I don't believe that the board manager automatically updates, and you have to do it manually through board manager, but I haven't tried this yet.

- Wed May 27, 2015 2:36 pm #18643 Hi,

I tried a complete reinstall of the arduino IDE without success getting the latest Version from Github. I'm also intressting to Know how to do to get the latest version.
KurtB

- Wed May 27, 2015 3:15 pm #18654

Hi,

I tried a complete reinstall of the arduino IDE without success getting the latest Version from Github. I'm also intressting to Know how to do to get the latest version.
KurtB

Another "me too i don't know how to get it to pick up changes but would like to know", but from what i can work out, the 1.6.4 IDE puts preferneces and board manager download stuff into a directory. If you reinstall the IDE and that directory is still there it will still use that old stuff and not reinstall. By default that directory is (in Wndows) C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Arduino15, so all the IDE installs will share that. If you don't want to share that and instead have multiple IDE installs with different board versions of ESP then you can create a directory named "portable" in the IDE root directory, and then that is where the IDE preferences and baord manager dowloads will go. Eg i have \Arduino\arduino-1.6.4 and so put a portable directory in there and so end up with C:\Arduino\arduino-1.6.4\portable\packages\esp8266...

- Wed May 27, 2015 3:27 pm #18659 Hi,
many thanks for your Information.
I deleted the whole Directory you mentioned before reinstall. Therefore 150MB was downloadet again.
I never got the latest Version which includes SDK 1.1.0
KurtB