QuickFix wrote: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..