ESP8266 Community Forum

- Fri Apr 13, 2018 9:41 pm #75356 Hi, I just bought the esp8266 12e on ebay.. But while waiting to receive it. I'm having trouble installing the board into the boards menu of the Arduino IDE on my Raspberry pi.

I've looked on this site and github, but I can't find any clear instructions on how to do it.

- Mon Apr 16, 2018 4:25 am #75409 The install instructions are quite clear as they are described on the GitHub page.
They are, however, written for Windows, Mac OS and Linux use, but I guess for the Raspberry Pi should be similar (not familiar with the Pi's myself).

What installing options have you tried already?

Please remember that, for the boards-manager option, you first have to enter the ESP8266-json URL into the preferences of the Arduino IDE, close and restart the Arduino IDE and then go to the boards-manager option (under "Tools"->"Board"-menu) to download and install the ESP-core.

Assumption is the mother of all f*ckups; I should know: I've been assuming a lot.
When you're new, don't begin with a separate ESP (ESP-01 to ESP-14) module.
Get yourself a proper development board: NodeMCU - WeMos D1 - Witty Board - ESP Thumbdrive
ESP power requirements are 3.3V±10%@500mA: HLK-PM03 (AC mains to 3.3V@1A)

- Mon Apr 16, 2018 4:52 am #75410 @developer27 why you didn't try google search?
https://medium.com/@ronm333/installing- ... 301ab381b9
https://medium.com/@ronm333/introdution ... 0a80afa6fd

- Mon Apr 16, 2018 5:47 pm #75426

The install instructions are quite clear as they are described on the GitHub page.
They are, however, written for Windows, Mac OS and Linux use, but I guess for the Raspberry Pi should be similar (not familiar with the Pi's myself).

What installing options have you tried already?

Please remember that, for the boards-manager option, you first have to enter the ESP8266-json URL into the preferences of the Arduino IDE, close and restart the Arduino IDE and then go to the boards-manager option (under "Tools"->"Board"-menu) to download and install the ESP-core.

I already have the Arduino IDE working, but no listing for the esp8266 board.

How do I do your last step?
then go to the boards-manager option (under "Tools"->"Board"-menu) to download and install the ESP-core.


I tried everything I saw in YouTube videos, but not even the boards manager has a dialog box to enter the json url. So I opened the url in the web browser, copied the text and saved it as a text file with the same name and put it in the same dir as the preferences.txt file.

Then I downloaded and extracted the esp8266-2.0.0.zip

The Readme file tells me to do stuff that doesn't exist in the terminal.

Here are the files found inside the esp8266-2.0.0 dir
bootloaders
cores
doc
libraries
tools
variants
boards.txt
LICENSE
platform.txt
programmers.txt
README.MD

I'm willing to use a mouse and drag/drop everything, if someone can tell me what goes where...

Im very shakey at installing things from the terminal, but It would be nice if there was a
Sudo apt-get install esp8266.12e
That does the whole process

I just tried that sudo, but no luck..

Ps: I just got the board delivered today. It shows up on my WiFi network as
AI-THINKER_08.......

I hope this tells you my experience level, and how lost I am..