Unable to connect to ESP8266MOD

Connected 12V lithium battery to 12V to 5V step-down to 5V LED strip (pos / neg) and to ESP8266MOD installed with WLED current version.

Issue is when I run wire GPIO2 to data LED input the ESP won’t provide AP wifi signal. If I remove this data wire and restart it provides the AP wifi signal and allows connectivity.

Ive seen posts on pulling up pins, and running other versions of WLED, but Im a little lost

Ignore me people, posted then found the solution in another post. Clearly I had a boy look the first time around.

Solution - data cable to GPIO5