user53014: I have updated Arduino AVR Boards in IDE and before I updated, ESP8266 boards were working, now after I updated, it says "Error downloading "URL for esp"" and no matter which website I listed inside the preference:
http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json
https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/releases/download/2.3.0/package_esp8266com_index.json

None of them are being downloaded and I cannot program ESP8266. Can I get some help? Thank you.

user50336: If you are using windows 10 try installing from git followimg the instruction here.
https://arduino-esp8266.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installing.html
That was how I get it to work when I found updating it through the ide didn't work

53014: <p>I have updated Arduino AVR Boards in IDE and before I updated, ESP8266 boards were working, now after I updated, it says "Error downloading "URL for esp"" and no matter which website I listed inside the preference:</p>

<pre><code>http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json
https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/releases/download/2.3.0/package_esp8266com_index.json
</code></pre>

<p>None of them are being downloaded and I cannot program ESP8266. Can I get some help? Thank you.</p>
 50336: <p>If you are using windows 10 try installing from git followimg the instruction here.</p>

<p><a href="https://arduino-esp8266.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installing.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://arduino-esp8266.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installing.html</a></p>

<p>That was how I get it to work when I found updating it through the ide didn't work</p>
