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The setup() does have Serial.begin(9600).
The RFID tag is the RDM6300.

I've had some success.
Seems the repo I was using may have been old.
After updating to: https://github.com/rogerclarkmelbourne/arduino-esp8266/
the code builds and runs however, I cannot get VisualMicro to upload.
Using:
Visual Studio 2013 Professional
VisualMicro Latest beta for Arduino 1.6.3
And the above mentioned repo placed in the sketch folder/hardware directory
Compiles/builds with no errors
but the following output is generated when trying to upload:

Uploader will use programmer name: esptool
Error - Uploader was unable to find the required programmer: esptool on platform esp8266
Upload failed. Did you select the correct upload method for this board?
System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException: The given key was not present in the dictionary.
at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2.get_Item(TKey key)
at processing.app.debug.AvrdudeUploader.uploadUsingPreferences(String buildPath, String className, Boolean verbose, Boolean ProgrammerUploadUsing, String mcuProgrammerOverrideName)
at processing.app.SketchEditor.Upload(Boolean verbose)


Anybody have and Idea about why MicroVisual can't find the esptool?
Thanks team for the help.

No but esptool is found and used to create the two bin files ..._00000.bin and ...10000.bin

russmathis wrote:The setup() does have Serial.begin(9600).
The RFID tag is the RDM6300.

I've had some success.
Seems the repo I was using may have been old.
After updating to: https://github.com/rogerclarkmelbourne/arduino-esp8266/
the code builds and runs however, I cannot get VisualMicro to upload.
Using:
Visual Studio 2013 Professional
VisualMicro Latest beta for Arduino 1.6.3
And the above mentioned repo placed in the sketch folder/hardware directory
Compiles/builds with no errors
but the following output is generated when trying to upload:

Uploader will use programmer name: esptool
Error - Uploader was unable to find the required programmer: esptool on platform esp8266
Upload failed. Did you select the correct upload method for this board?
System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException: The given key was not present in the dictionary.
at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2.get_Item(TKey key)
at processing.app.debug.AvrdudeUploader.uploadUsingPreferences(String buildPath, String className, Boolean verbose, Boolean ProgrammerUploadUsing, String mcuProgrammerOverrideName)
at processing.app.SketchEditor.Upload(Boolean verbose)


Anybody have and Idea about why MicroVisual can't find the esptool?
Thanks team for the help.

I think I've found the problem at least with the Generic ESP8266 uploader and Visual Micro

The first thing I did was to make sure the file programmers.txt (C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\esp8266com\esp8266\programmers.txt) contains


Which I got from an earlier release

next platform.txt in the same directory needs an extra line at the end:



Don't forget in AtmelStudio to press Tools->Visual Micro->Reload Toolchains

Best of luck

Nigel.

Hey, thanks, that worked for me!