ESP8266 FreeRTOS SDK updates and installation

[mjoy99]

I feel like the ESP8266 FreeRTOS SDK (https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp ... index.html) is a forgotten/dead project. It talks about adding esp8266 to the regular ESP-IDF, but it doesn't appear that has happened.

The trials and tribulations from deprecated packages under pre-requisites to broken idf and other pytools, the FreeRTOS SDK is barely useable. It took me a week just to get it installed and able to run the simple example/hello-world app on a standard nodeMCU. PlatformIO was no help either for the esp8266, as it's SDK was deprecated over a decade ago for the framework in questions

Either update the FreeRTOS SDK and tools or finish the port to the 32's ESP-IDF.

Does anyone have a go to guide to get a decent working development environment, or is everyone just set on using Arduino framework?

[ahsrabrifat]

If you need to work with FreeRTOS, I think it's better to move away from ESP8266. Use ESP32 instead.