ESP8266 Community Forum

- Tue Apr 21, 2015 11:20 am #15205 Hey, thanks for your reply!
No, I still can't upload any sketch to an Esp board from Atmel Studio
I tried a couple of things, and esptool finally showed up in the programmers list, and there's no other programmer available now. But if I tick the option 'Upload Using Programmer', Atmel Studio reports:

Code: Select allThe uploader returned an error

...and if I untick that menu item, as suggested in the status bar, then I get:

Code: Select allavrdude: Can't find programmer id "-P\\.\COM5"

So, I guess I'll have to keep using the Arduino IDE, at least for uploading.

- Tue Apr 28, 2015 7:07 am #15903 Hi,

Visual Micro was recently tested with the 8266 and found to work (see the release notes). A new entry has been added to the applications list called Esp8266 just in case you want to install both the esp8266 version of the Arduino Ide and also a separate Arduino Ide that might not have the esp8266.

If you encounter any issues feel free to use our dedicated forum where we can help you http://www.visualmicro.com/forums/

Thanks

Tim Leek (Visual Micro)

ps: The Visual Micro debugger will be off if you have the "Release" configuration selected on the tool bar

- Sun May 03, 2015 8:55 am #16349 Hi,

I've found out how to get esp8266 + atmel-studio + visual-micro to program using esptool.

To start with make sure that Programmers->esptool and Upload Using Programmer are selected.

Then you'll need to edit "C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\esp8266com\esp8266\platform.txt"

Look for the line starting:
tools.esptool.program.pattern="{path}/{cmd}" {program.verbose} -cd .....

Just delete the "{program.verbose}"

Then it should program when you press F5

- Sun May 03, 2015 7:02 pm #16410 You nailed it, nigelbe! Now it finally works for me Thanks!