diff --git a/libraries/esp8266/library.properties b/libraries/esp8266/library.properties
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+name=ESP8266
+version=1.0
+author=Simon Peter,Markus Sattler,Ivan Grokhotkov
+maintainer=Ivan Grokhtkov <ivan@esp8266.com>
+sentence=ESP8266 sketches examples
+paragraph=
+category=Other
+url=
+architectures=esp8266
diff --git a/libraries/esp8266/src/dummy.h b/libraries/esp8266/src/dummy.h
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+// This file is here only to silence warnings from Arduino IDE
+// Currently IDE doesn't support no-code libraries, like this collection of example sketches.