I am at a loss. I have installed WLED, (I have the MAC address set to assign the IP from the router) It connects to WIFI after a few second during setup, I set everything up, LED’s work fine. Everything is good. I can get to it with the app or directly using the IP address. Save settings, everythi…

What ESP board? The ones I was using before were a WROOM knockoff. The actual Espressif board worked.

You might try using the USB cable that works with a separate 5V USB wall adapter, to see if it’s a computer powered issue vs the USB power connection. There have been reports of bad isolation diodes on some boards causing the 5V Vin connections to fail and preventing power up. You can also check t…

So it’s a board off Amazon. Link here: https://a.co/d/48PqTlf Anyway, I think the real problem was something power related bc it worked fine until I powered it from a buck converter plugged into my 12v supply. Of course I dialed down the voltage to 5.0v before plugging it in. But for Whatever reas…

Very possibly fried the onboard voltage regulator. Too hot to touch is a bad sign for electronics…

Well, just tried again with another nodemcu, works perfectly. Go figure. Guess first was just a dud

Hi all, I’m facing the same issues here. Flashing WLED to the board works with no error. Starting the GUI over the network from the intaller works but after the first reset/reboot, I cannot reconnect to the board. Tried everything mentioned above regarding router settings. Here ist the new point …

Are you sure it’s not just getting a new IP from your router? I would set a static IP reservation in your router.

Hi Jinx, thank you for your reponse. I’ve tried static IP but it doesn’t work for the two problematic devices. The one device that shows up in the router network does this even without static IP. :frowning: regards Stephan

Are you using an Esp32 or 8266? Can you connect to the board if you don’t connect any lights to it? Just power the controller.

Hi Jinx, Are you using an Esp32 or 8266? I’m using an ESP32 board. don’t connect any lights to it? Just power the controller. That’s what I did. The controller was powered via USB from the PC. WLED was installed via the browser WiFi was configured via the installer in the browser. Connecti…

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