Tutorial Install Platformio

Atom is an opensource editor, and platformio is a plugin to program for the Arduino platform and support a huge range of hardware. (250 different types of boards including various esp8266's)

Look at http://platformio.org/boards for a overview.

You need this if you want to help us improving ESPEasy.

Install the Atom editor

• Download the Atom installer from the site https://atom.io :

• Start the installer and click through them.
• If it also installs the .NET platform you may have to reboot and restart the Atom installer.

• Start atom:

Now your Atom editor installation is complete.

Install the platformio-ide plugin

Platformio is a plugin for the Atom editor, we're going to install that next.

• In the Atom editor click on install a package.
• Click open installer:

• Search for platformio
• Install platformio-ide:

• Install python 2.7 if it asks you, it will take you to the python website:

• Click download pyton 2.7 and download the correct installer:

• Download/run the python installer, click through the installer. Default settings are fine:

• After installing python 2.7, go back to Atom and click try a again:

• Click reload now to reload now Atom. (first start takes a while):

• You should now have an Atom editor with Platformio installed and see this screen:

If atom is slughish, hanging and giving errors, then there is probably something wrong with the gcc-linter. I had to remove platformio-* and linter-gcc and reinstall platformio-ide to fix it.

• Now go to the next tutoral: Tutorial_preparing_to_work_with_github