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Manage the Espressif ESP8266 boards

Install

To install the Espressif ESP8266 boards,

  • Ensure the Arduino tools, CLI or IDE, are installed.

  • Ensure the arduino-cli.yaml configuration file for Arduino-CLI or the Additional boards manager URLs for Arduino IDE includes

https://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json
  • Open a Terminal window.

  • Run

$
arduino-cli core install esp8266:esp8266

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