Various video and tutorials for the new Arduino IDE for ESP8266

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By miker
#13870 Great video! I've created a custom board that programs the -01 in windows from the IDE without using the ESP python tool that you have to use. I have to press a button that shorts GPIO_0 to GND when programming though. Is that why you need to use the ESP python tool? You didn't say why you need it in your video.
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By calumk
#13871 Ah ok, so the Arduino IDE seems to be broken in OSX which is why you need to use the python esptool

The short from GPIO_0 to GND is nessasary, but is handled by the nodemcu dev board automatically.

For the ESP-01 / any other board, you would need to manually short the GPIO_0 and (on some boards) GPIO_15