Tutorial Arduino Firmware Upload

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Download and installing the Arduino IDE

Download and install Arduino 1.6.5. from https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software

Launch arduino.exe and select preferences

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Enter the URL for additional boards. Currently we use the staging version so you should enter:

http://arduino.esp8266.com/staging/package_esp8266com_index.json

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Now navigate to the board manager

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You should see the ESP option

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Click install (this will take some time, be patient, it should download approx. 450 MB)

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Download ESP Easy Firmware

Download the latest version from sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/espeasy/files

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The zipfile contains two folders. Unpack the zipfile to some folder of your own choice

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The libraries folder has 3 libraries. These folder should be copied to the Arduino libraries folder

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This is the folder structure for Arduino IDE. You can see the libraries folder in here.

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Once the additional libraries are copied, it should look like this:

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Compile and upload

Launch Arduino IDE and navigatie to the ESPEasy folder. Open ESPEasy.ino

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It's important the select the right ESP board. In our case we use the NodeMCU V1.0 board:

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And select the right COM port:

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Finally, upload the sketch to your ESP board:

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If all went well, the result in your status window should look like this:

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