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schufti wrote:Hi,
you are correct. Unfortunately there has been too much change for the simple solution to work.

For an easy maintainable Arduino-esp8266-ide I would do something like:

a) download .zip version of recent Arduino-ide
b) unpack it to some suitable place (e.g. d:\, keep the version info if you like to have several versions)
c) create an empty directory "portable" in this directory
d) start arduino once
e) under "portable" create following chain of directories: packages\esp8266\hardware\esp8266\2.3.0
f) proceed like from 5) in your post
g) download and copy following file into "portable" so that ide recognises esp8266 devices
http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/packa ... index.json

this gives you the freedom of the location of your Arduino-ide, simplifies backups (all in one dir) and parallel versions, keeps your settings, all sketches and additional libs in one place (portable\sketchbook)

If someone knows how to generate the .json (preferrably add it to get.py) this would be awesome.

Thanks, schufti.
This way, everything is in one place.
Works fine for me.

more versatile version over here:
viewtopic.php?p=64041#p64041

Esp8266 development definitely seems frozen, if not dead. I guess IGRR and me-no-dev are prioritizing esp32. But v2.4.0 is now almost a year in staging. Can we get an idea of the release date please?

They are getting back on ESP8266 sporadically ...
You can see that the commits number is growing recently :
https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/commits/master