Wemos D1 mini - No "Wemos D1 R2 & mini" option in Arduino IDE

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So, I have a Wemos D1 mini board and everything works fine, but there is a little strange thing going on. I downloaded the board managers and libraries and according to the tutorials, there should be a "Wemos D1 R2 & mini" option to select the board, like here:

https://cdn.instructables.com/FD7/46FV/J1CES3L9/FD746FVJ1CES3L9.LARGE.jpg

But all I have is "Wemos D1 R1". I can select it and I have successfully uploaded the blink sketch, it is just strange.

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Oh and an other question. Does the "CPU" frequency option changes the actual frequency of the chip? I thought it is much more complicated to change frequency, I heard that it is not possible the run the ESP8266 on 160MHz while programming it with Arduino IDE.

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The ESP8266 developers changed the board name since that tutorial was written. It's now called "LOLIN(WEMOS) D1 R2 & mini".

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Thanks
I was selecting WeMos R1 D1 and the code was not working.
"LOLIN(WEMOS) D1 R2 & mini". did the trick

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You're welcome. I'm glad to hear it's working now. Enjoy!
Per