When the installation is complete, close the board manager and open the Tools menu again. The installation lasts only a few minutes. If the board do not appear, check in the preferences that the URL is correct. In the search field, type esp8266 to find the new board to install. Now go to the Tools menu and then boards Type and finally board Manager This will indicate to the Arduino IDE that it must go to the site in order to recover other compatible development boards. In the input field, paste the following internet address and validate On macOS, go to the Arduino menu then Preferences … Click on the icon indicated by the red arrow on the photo below.
Launch the Arduino IDE and open the preferences from the File menu. Install boards and libraries for ESP8266 modules on the Arduino IDE We will discover in this tutorial how to install the necessary libraries on the Arduino IDE, and discover through simple examples the basics of the programming of the ESP8266. Today it is as easy to program an ESP8266 module as an Arduino in C++. Quickly, the vast majority of Arduino libraries have been adapted to run on the ESP8266.
