Downloading and installing the new Arduino IDE for ESP8266

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By frippe75
#33782 Hi!

Trying to install latest of everything to get to a working OTA sketch.
I might be mixing up a few things. Like there seems to be multiple OTA libraries. ArduinoOTA and the mDNS..OTA sketch both using different libraries to perform the OTA.

I've tested the mDNS one but get into trouble with being asked a password.

...So to the actual question(s).

Can I use Arduino 1.6.7 and follow the intstruction on installing via git?
ESP sketches and boards does not seem to get picked up. Ran the python get.py script.

Also there seems to be a problem running multiple versions of arduino due to the ~/.arduino15 directory structure. Some files, like preferences.txt get new key value pair ... Would be nice (to know) how to best run a multiple version setup.
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By frippe75
#33789 Ok so I got info about the portable folder under ...hardware... This cleared up the multiversion issue I think. No I only need to get that portable version using Arduino 1.6.7 with the latest ESP8266 library working.