NodeMCU error messages

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Hey everyone

I am trying to accomplish a “plant watering alert” project using an ESP8266, and water moisture sensor. The project is from “viral science” on YouTube.

Error message I’m receiving

  • Error compiling for board NodeMCU 12E 1.0

I’ve tried NodeMCU 0.9 and also generic esp8266 still get the same message.

I’ve tried multiple versions of Arduino IDE, removed Blynk and esp8266 community libraries and reinstalled them.

I’ve downloaded sitlabs 340g driver.

I am able to write to my Uno boards but these are giving me a hard time. Oh and I am very new to all this so I spent lastnight from midnight to 7:30am reading online in the forums and and copying the error message and downloading etc.

Any help and instructions are greatly appreciated.

I tried on two different Mac computers one with El Capitan and another high Sierra.

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I'm sure the IDE gave you more than that in the error message. In the IDE, you can click the "Copy Error Message" button to copy it all and then paste it here inside code tags.

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Arduino: 1.8.9 (Mac OS X), Board: "NodeMCU 1.0 (ESP-12E Module), 80 MHz, Flash, Legacy (new can return nullptr), All SSL ciphers (most compatible), 4MB (FS:2MB OTA:~1019KB), 2, v2 Lower Memory, Disabled, None, Only Sketch, 115200"

fork/exec /Users/Matt/Library/Arduino15/packages/esp8266/tools/python3/3.7.2-post1/python3: no such file or directory
Error compiling for board NodeMCU 1.0 (ESP-12E Module).

This report would have more information with
"Show verbose output during compilation"
option enabled in File -> Preferences.

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And did you google that error? "tools/python3/3.7.2-post1/python3: no such file or directory"

It appears to be a Mac issue - here

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Hmm I wasn’t locating those results. So looks like I either have wrong python or need to remove it and redownload it. This is now another language I’ll need to learn. I’ll make some attempts.

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blh64:
And did you google that error? "tools/python3/3.7.2-post1/python3: no such file or directory"

It appears to be a Mac issue - here

You were totally correct. turned out to be the python issue with my macs still having python 2.7... and not python3.

Steps to correct:

Here first and downloaded Java JDK
https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase-jdk14-downloads.html

Then opened Terminal and followed these directions;
https://installpython3.com/mac/

Once done everything worked great!

Thanks for your help.