Adafruit ESP8266E12 HUZZAH. Does it work with Arduino IDE 1.6.9 ?

[bphick]

Back between Arduino IDE 1.6.5 and 1.6.6, we lost the ability to talk to the Adafruit ESP8266 Huzzah board. Figuring they would fix the problem in subsequent releases, I upgraded from 1.6.5 to 1.6.9 this week, did all the library and boards updates, and when trying to compile for the Huzzah, following the settings from https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-huzzah-esp8266-breakout/using-arduino-ide. (and I DO have the board selected as the Adrafruit HUZZAH ESP8266, and not the generic one initially shown in the tutorial, but have tried both with no differing results.

I get the following compiling error:

Board huzzah (platform esp8266, package esp8266) is unknown

Error compiling for board Adafruit HUZZAH ESP8266.

Do I need to revert back to A. IDE 1.6.5 to be able to talk to my boards again?? This was to be a quick code update. If it matters, I am using Windows 7.

[Juppit]

Try to rename your arduino directory in something like Arduino15.old and
reload it.
You should find it in C:\Users[user_name]\AppData\Local\Arduino15

Am 15.06.2016 um 19:44 schrieb bphick:

Back between Arduino IDE 1.6.5 and 1.6.6, we lost the ability to talk to
the Adafruit ESP8266 Huzzah board. Figuring they would fix the problem
in subsequent releases, I upgraded from 1.6.5 to 1.6.9 this week, did
all the library and boards updates, and when trying to compile for the
Huzzah, following the settings from
https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-huzzah-esp8266-breakout/using-arduino-ide.
(and I DO have the board selected as the Adrafruit HUZZAH ESP8266, and
not the generic one initially shown in the tutorial, but have tried both
with no differing results.

I get the following compiling error:

Board huzzah (platform esp8266, package esp8266) is unknown

Error compiling for board Adafruit HUZZAH ESP8266.

Do I need to revert back to A. IDE 1.6.5 to be able to talk to my boards
again?? This was to be a quick code update. If it matters, I am using
Windows 7.

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[bphick]

Thanks for the quick reply. Tried a quick fix. Renamed it to C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino2
and tried booting the Arduino.exe. No change in my result. I still get the following compiling error:

Board huzzah (platform esp8266, package esp8266) is unknown

Error compiling for board Adafruit HUZZAH ESP8266.

I tried my backup of 1.6.5 and no such error, however it is telling me that it doesn't like something I compiled before and was warned about back in January/16. Which was the use of a const Char *. But that is unrelated to the 1.6.6 - 1.6.9 problem I am experiencing.

[igrr]

I think you need to rename the folder @Juppit mentioned, not the one you renamed...
C:\Users\[user_name]\AppData\Local\Arduino15 not C:\Program Files (x86)\....
The thing in Program Files is the application. The other folder (under AppData) is application data.

[bphick]

Oops, sorry I misunderstood the first time. Your solution worked. I was not aware of the files in the User directory and naturally gravitated towards the one's I had been manipulating prior to my request.
Your help is very much appreciated! I'm up and running.