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Expand Up @@ -112,6 +112,16 @@ Instructions - Windows 10

- If using the Arduino IDE for Visual Studio (https://www.visualmicro.com/), be sure to click Tools - Visual Micro - Rescan Toolchains and Libraries

- You may see some error messages about missing files related to the
``SoftwareSerial`` library. These are because the ESP8266 version
of this library has been moved to a separate git submodule. In
order to get rid of these messages, initialize the submodule:

.. code:: bash

cd %USERPROFILE%\Documents\hardware\esp8266com\esp8266
git submodules update --init

- When later updating your local library, goto the esp8266 directory and do a git pull

.. code:: bash
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -174,3 +184,13 @@ Instructions - Other OS
python get.py

- Restart Arduino

- You may see some error messages about missing files related to the
``SoftwareSerial`` library. These are because the ESP8266 version
of this library has been moved to a separate git submodule. In
order to get rid of these messages, initialize the submodule:

.. code:: bash

cd esp8266
git submodules update --init