Downloading and installing the new Arduino IDE for ESP8266

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By gfvalvo
#63561 All of a sudden Arduino IDE (v1.6.12) is reporting:

Code: Select allError downloading http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json


and there are no ESP8266 boards available to choose in the drop-down menu.

Appreciate and advise.

Thanks
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By jdavies
#63575 I'm having the same problem. It has worked in the past but today, as I installed the IDE on a new machine andtried to access this URL for the ESP8266 boards, the URL now returns a 404 error.
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By jdavies
#63577
jdavies wrote:I'm having the same problem. It has worked in the past but today, as I installed the IDE on a new machine andtried to access this URL for the ESP8266 boards, the URL now returns a 404 error.

Correction, its not a 404 error. Its an ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED result.