Hi everyone, I'm trying to setup an Adafruit HUZZAH ESP8266 breakout board with the ESP8266-FastLED-IoT-Webserver project. I've managed to follow the steps through step 3.1, where the software is uploaded to the board. The upload seems to work, however when I attempt the next step to upload the ske…

I managed to find a solution to this. Turns out, the data uploader I was using requires resetting the device and putting it back into bootloader mode between uploading the sketch and uploading the data. Didn't see anywhere mention this until I stumbled across a note halfway down on this page

[SOLVED] ESP8266 SPIFFS Upload Failed; Timed out waiting for packet header

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UKHeliBob August 21, 2022, 8:32pm 2

Your topic was MOVED to its current forum category as it is more suitable than the original as it has noting to do with installation and troubleshooting of the IDE

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[SOLVED] ESP8266 SPIFFS Upload Failed; Timed out waiting for packet header

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