Home_Automation_AdafruitIO

Home Automation using Adafruit IO platform

Prerequisites Arduino 1.6.5, get it from Arduino website. Arduino 1.6.6 has several issues, so we recommend to stick with 1.6.5 for now. Internet connection Instructions To install the ESP8266 board in your Arduino IDE, follow these next instructions:

1.In your Arduino IDE, go to File> Preferences 2.Enter http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json into the “Additional Boards Manager URLs” field as shown in the figure below. Then, click the “OK” button: Note: if you already have the ESP32 boards URL, you can separate the URLs with a comma as follows: https://dl.espressif.com/dl/package_esp32_index.json, http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json 3. Open the Boards Manager. Go to Tools > Board > Boards Manager…

4. Search for ESP8266 and press install button for the “ESP8266 by ESP8266 Community“:

5. That’s it. It should be installed after a few seconds.