Arduino-compatible IDE with ESP8266 support

This project brings support for ESP8266 chip to the Arduino environment. ESP8266WiFi library bundled with this project has the same interface as the WiFi Shield library, making it easy to re-use existing code and libraries.

Installing with Boards Manager

Starting with 1.6.4, Arduino allows installation of third-party platform packages using Boards Manager. We have packages available for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux (32 and 64 bit).

• Install Arduino 1.6.5 from the Arduino website.
• Start Arduino and open Perferences window.
• Enter http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json into Additional Board Manager URLs field. You can add multiple URLs, separating them with commas.
• Open Boards Manager from Tools > Board menu and install esp8266 platform (and don't forget to select your ESP8266 board from Tools > Board menu after installation).

Available versions

Stable version

Boards manager link: http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json

Documentation: Reference

Staging version

Boards manager link: http://arduino.esp8266.com/staging/package_esp8266com_index.json

Documentation: Reference

Building latest version from source

$ git clone https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino.git
$ cd Arduino/build
$ ant dist

Documentation

Latest development version:

• Reference
• Supported boards
• Change log

Issues and support

Forum: http://www.esp8266.com/arduino

Submit issues on Github: https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/issues

Contributing

For minor fixes of code and documentation, go ahead and submit a pull request.

Larger changes (rewriting parts of existing code from scratch, adding new functions to the core, adding new libraries) should generally be discussed in the chat first.

Feature branches with lots of small commits (especially titled "oops", "fix typo", "forgot to add file", etc.) should be squashed before opening a pull request. At the same time, please refrain from putting multiple unrelated changes into a single pull request.

License and credits

Arduino IDE is developed and maintained by the Arduino team. The IDE is licensed under GPL.

ESP8266 core includes an xtensa gcc toolchain, which is also under GPL.

Esptool written by Christian Klippel is licensed under GPLv2, currently maintained by Ivan Grokhotkov: https://github.com/igrr/esptool-ck.

Espressif SDK included in this build is under Espressif MIT License.

ESP8266 core files are licensed under LGPL.

SPI Flash File System (SPIFFS) written by Peter Andersson is used in this project. It is distributed under MIT license.