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- Thu Jan 13, 2022 5:43 am #93349 All of a sudden Arduino IDE (v1.6.12) is reporting:

Error downloading http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/packa ... index.json
and there are no ESP8266 boards available to choose in the drop-down menu.

Until now, it has been working fine for months.

Anyone else see this?

Appreciate any advise.

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- Fri Apr 08, 2022 4:35 am #94214

opening "%appdata%\local\arduino15\staging\packages\" and for each error downloading given in the arduino IDE, i downloaded the ZIP file manually, and copy to the above directory, after the fifth zip was copied. all was fine.

Hi flisterfive,

also from me the question:

Which Zip file? name? where to find?

Can you please describe in more detail what you did to make preferences work with WPS8266.

Mike Knife

- Fri Apr 08, 2022 5:07 pm #94221

All of a sudden Arduino IDE (v1.6.12) is reporting:

Error downloading http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/packa ... index.json
and there are no ESP8266 boards available to choose in the drop-down menu.

Is there some reason why are you using such an old version of the IDE? Current is 1.8.19! I understand sometimes you can't upgrade due to a library or such. There are a lot of significant changes to the way things work and it wouldn't surprise me if some new stuff is expecting a newer version of the IDE.

PLUS - It would be simple enough to test with a parallel install and see if your problem goes away. - https://docs.arduino.cc/software/ide-v1/tutorials/PortableIDE

3 lines of code = Complete IoT, App, Web Server
w/ GUI Admin Client, Drag & Drop File Manager, OTA Built-In, Access Point Manager,
Performance Metrics, Web Socket Comms, App API, All running on ESP8266...
Even usable on ESP-01S --- Please check it out!
https://inqonthat.com/inqportal-the-three-line-promise/
https://InqOnThat.com/inqportal