ESP8266 Community Forum

- Sun Apr 12, 2015 4:46 pm #14316

That's an interesting thought, but I'm afraid it did not fix it. I'm going to need to understand how the Arduino IDE populates the programmer menu, I fear.

Richaerd

1.6.1 basically worked like 1.5.x, then with 1.6.2 they just went totally mental changing paths to hardware, libraries and boards.txt, 1.6.3 they've reverted a few bits and made it actually run on linux, but its still quite a mess, and the documentation hasn't been updated.

essentially the default answer to anyone having problems should be "use 1.6.1"

- Sun Apr 12, 2015 4:48 pm #14317 I have a very similar issue with windows 8.1. Two different machines, same problem; can't see esptool.

- Sun Apr 12, 2015 11:33 pm #14333 Same problem

Mac OS 10.10.3
Arduino IDE 1.6.1

Can't see esptool

Any advice?

Thanks in advance.

- Mon Apr 13, 2015 2:33 am #14338 Thanks, all.

I've installed the esp-specific 1.6.1 and (crucially) removed the esp8266com directory from Documents/Arduino/hardware (as installed from https://github.com/sandeepmistry/esp8266-Arduino).

And now I can see esptool !

Still can't program my module, but that's a different problem.