ESP8266 Community Forum

- Tue Sep 01, 2015 12:53 am #27521 After installing any version of Arduino (1.6.1, 1.6.4, 1.6.5) on my Mac I get compiler errors because of the missing ESPtool.( Even on my PC.)
I have installed the core package for the ESP8266 (added: http://arduino.esp8266.com/package_esp8 ... index.json to the board manager URL list).
But no ESPtool (menu: tools-programmer)!
How to fix this?

- Thu Sep 03, 2015 10:29 am #27715 It's normal, you don't need to choose EPSTool from Arduino IDE, you use the standard programmer. And be sure to select GenericESP in the board selection menu.

- Sun Nov 01, 2015 2:51 pm #32773 @Touliloup : What is the " standard programmer"?

- Mon Nov 02, 2015 1:05 am #32813 AVRisp
generally it doesn't matter as the isp option often is ignored.
I thought

Code: Select allhttp://arduino.esp8266.com/staging/package_esp8266com_index.json

was the correct json?

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