Esp8266 Beginner tutorial
Today, Esp8266 NODEMCU module arrived and I was working on it. The first issue was about getting the driver and then I ran into installing board manager issue. I search around the web and it was little pain when no solutions worked. I tried going to preferences>boardmanagerURL and pasting different URLs but all were showing error. There are couple of solutions that may work. 1. You can download zip files for all the errors that is shown in the IDE and then again restart the arduino. Go to tools ->Board. You will find that all the ESP8266 drivers has arrived. 2.The second solution works best and you need to only follow the steps. Step 1: Installing the driver for Node MCU 8266 Go to Silicon Labs website and download driver written on Node MCU module. Mine is CP210X. You can go to this link: https://www.silabs.com/products/development-tools/software/usb-to-uart-bridge-vcp-drivers Go to "Download for Windows 7/8/8.1" tab and click download VCP (5.3MB) default ...