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Q&A Forum › Category: ESP8266 › ESP8266
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batta asked 10 months ago

Recently I installed the Arduino IDE 2.3.2 in my system. I added the following line to the Preferences Additional URL’s:
http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json
When I try to load these boards I get the following message:
Failed to install platform: ‘esp8266:esp8266:2.0.0’.
Error: 2 UNKNOWN: Get “https://github.com/igrr/esptool-ck/releases/download/0.4.6/esptool-0.4.6-win32.zip”: proxyconnect tcp: dial tcp: lookup _: no such host
My question is: How can I load these boards? Has someone the same problem?
Thank you in advance

Question Tags: Arduino IDE 2.3.2
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Sara Santos Staff answered 10 months ago

Hi.
Which tutorial are you following to install the ESP8266 boards?
 
Regards,
Sara

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batta answered 10 months ago

Hi Sara,
I followed your tutorial at:
 
Installing ESP8266 in Arduino IDE (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux) | Random Nerd Tutorials
 
Best regards,
 
Enrique

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Sara Santos Staff answered 10 months ago

Hi.
At which step of the tutorial you get that message? That never happened to me before.
Regards,
Sara

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batta answered 10 months ago

Hi Sara, 
Just when in the Library Manager appear Libraries ESP8266 and I click in the button “INSTALL”

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Sara Santos Staff answered 10 months ago

You need to install it in the Boards Manager menu, not in the Libraries manager.
Please double-check the screenshots https://randomnerdtutorials.com/installing-esp8266-nodemcu-arduino-ide-2-0/

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batta answered 10 months ago

Please excuse my mistake. I really mean boards manager, not library manager. Aniway, I’ll follow your indications.
Thanks a lot.

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Sara Santos Staff answered 10 months ago

Let me know if you succeed. 
regards,
Sara

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batta answered 10 months ago

Hi, Sara
No, it didn’t work. I get the following message:
Descargando paquetes
esp8266:xtensa-lx106-elf-gcc@3.1.0-gcc10.3-e5f9fec
Failed to install platform: ‘esp8266:esp8266:3.1.2’.
Error: 2 UNKNOWN: Get “https://github.com/earlephilhower/esp-quick-toolchain/releases/download/3.1.0-gcc10.3/x86_64-w64-mingw32.xtensa-lx106-elf-e5f9fec.220621.zip”: proxyconnect tcp: dial tcp: lookup _: no such host
Regards, 
 
Enrique

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Sara Santos Staff answered 10 months ago

Hi.
I never faced that issue before.
I think it is because there was some sort of bug during copy paste. I think your URL on the “Additional Boards Manager URL” field is wrong.
Try copy it from here:

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

Regards,
Sara

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batta answered 10 months ago

Hi Sara,
My problem is over!
I was prompted by Arduino for installing IDE 3.2.3 – I did and the ESP8266 boards were loaded without problem.
Thank you very much for your advice.
Enrique Battaner

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Sara Santos Staff answered 10 months ago

Great.
I’m glad the issue is solved.
I’ll mark this issue as resolved. If you need further help, you just need to open a new question in our forum.
Regards,
Sara

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