So here is my situation, everything works perfect until i unplug from the power source. when i reconnect i just get one LED on, but if i unplug the data wire then connect to power source and reconnect data wire everything works. Any suggestions cuz it’s gettting annoying I’m leaning towards it being the controller (ESP8265) and if it helps im only running 130 LEDS 5V
Likely it’s the particular GPIO pin being used by your controller. There’s a number that don’t like being pulled Hi (or Lo) on power up.
Simplist fix is to choose another GPIO to drive the LEDs.
You sir are my savior, i’d almost given up hope, i’ve even wired some on/off switch to the data wire just to work around my problem. I switched over to a different GPIO and starts perfectly thanks so much