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- Sun Jan 28, 2018 12:53 pm #73536 I'm struggling to get OTA updates working in the Arduino environment.
I'm following these instructions: http://esp8266.github.io/Arduino/versio ... dates.html

But when I download and run the BasicOTA.ino example for the first time via normal COM port and I subsequently see a Network Port as per step 4 in the guide, I do not see any "Upload Using" option to be set to "OTA".

I'm using
Arduino 1.8.4
Python V2.7
ESP8266 board mgr 2.4.0
board configured to NodeMCU 1.0(ESP-12E Module)

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Last edited by ianc on Mon Jan 29, 2018 3:15 am, edited 2 times in total.

- Sun Jan 28, 2018 11:47 pm #73545 Hi, did you read the Note right at the end of step 5 ?

- Mon Jan 29, 2018 3:18 am #73552 Yes I did download the boards.txt.py file and put it in the .tools directory and restarted the Arduino IDE. No difference.
I've now also edited the initial entry here with a link to a screenshot of the menus as they look for me. As you can see they are quite different from the ones in the tutorial.

I've also noticed that the ESP runs very hot (much hotter than when just running Wemo emulation) when running the OTA code. Is this normal?

- Mon Jan 29, 2018 10:58 am #73557 I don't have that choice either, but OTA uploads fine. I use ArduinoOTA => BasicOTA example though. What happens when you try to upload like that?

No significant temp. changes when I use OTA.

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