diff --git a/tools/esp8266/html/convert.py b/tools/esp8266/html/convert.py
index f56ad580..eb41fb7b 100755
--- a/tools/esp8266/html/convert.py
+++ b/tools/esp8266/html/convert.py
@@ -64,13 +64,17 @@ def convert2Header(inFile, compress):
     f.close()
 
 # delete all files in the 'h' dir, but ignore 'favicon_ico_gz.h'
-dir = './html/h'
+dir = 'h'
+if os.getcwd()[-4:] != "html":
+    dir = "html/" + dir
+
 for f in os.listdir(dir):
     if not f.startswith('favicon_ico_gz'):  
         os.remove(os.path.join(dir, f))
 
 # grab all files with following extensions
-os.chdir('./html')
+if os.getcwd()[-4:] != "html":
+    os.chdir('./html')
 types = ('*.html', '*.css', '*.js') # the tuple of file types
 files_grabbed = []
 for files in types:
@@ -78,4 +82,4 @@ for files in types:
 
 # go throw the array
 for val in files_grabbed:
-    convert2Header(val, True)
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+    convert2Header(val, True)