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OTA Question
Jun 1st, 2016 at 12:34am
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Hi,

I have just upgraded to 1605.28 and something has changed in the OTA procedure which I cannot seem to figure out. Previously there were 9 options under the vmicro menu item and one of them was to choose OTA for flashing. I now have only 8 options and the one to select OTA has disappeared - how do I do this now? 

If I input the IP address in the project properties then I get the message 

Uploading 'ESPEasy' to 'Generic ESP8266 Module' using '192.168.1.74:8266'
Usage: espota.py [options]
Upload failed
espota.py: error: option -p: invalid integer value: '{network.port}'

I have not changed my boards.txt which still contains the line:

network.port=8266

Thanks for your help

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Re: OTA Question
Reply #1 - Jun 1st, 2016 at 12:59am
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Hi,

The change is not due to Visual Micro it means you have installed a new esp8266 core via boards manager. Their new core works a different way. In fact it's a better system because it works the same as some other Arduino boards and is more flexible for developers.

If you take a look at the visualmicro.com home page there is a note about OTA for esp8266 at the top. It's a link to the esp8266 page on visualmcicro.com Also there is a note about it in the 6th of May release

You will read that if you are a licensed user you can provide the missing port property via the new project>board.txt system or you can install the Apple Bonjour for Windows service that esp8266 and Arduino recommend.

Is Arduino supporting the :8266 syntax with Ip address? Haven't seen that used with esp8266 before.
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Re: OTA Question
Reply #2 - Jun 1st, 2016 at 5:32am
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Hi Tim,

You are absolutely right - I installed core 2.2 at the same time as the 1605.28 upgrade.

I am a licensed user and have been using the board.txt method to specify the upload port option in vm 1605.10 with core 2.1 with no problems. Now that I have upgraded to 1605.28/core 2.2 this no longer seems to work and I don't understand why.  

In order to try to troubleshoot my problem I enabled 'verbose messages' during a 'Build and Upload' operation - and to my surprise OTA worked! It repeatedly does not work when 'verbose messages' is switched off. I know this sounds really weird but I have tried it several times with the same result????!! Any ideas?

The :8266 syntax is not supported by Arduino - it was just one of my many attempts to input some port information!!

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