I have a digquad and digocta that I have running a total of about 2000 ws2811’s. They are wirelessly connected via static IPs to my home network, but also wire to a network switch along with an FPP to run xlights sequences. When I have my show components turn on via smart plugs the boards turn on first, and run their default presets. When my FPP turns on along with my network switch, the boards become unreachable (not the normal screen stating they are receiving data from IP ###.###.###.###). I cannot reach them from the wled app at this point, as well as the FPP cannot ping them. If this persists until scheduled show time, the boards do not respond to the data being sent. If I unplug the ethernet cable from the boards and plug it back in, they seem to work just fine. Sometimes turning the network switch on and then back on also fixes it. Is there a known reason this behave would be occuring?
What version of WLED are you running?
Do you have to have both WiFi and Ethernet connections simultaneously?
I’m not sure how well that’s supported in the current versions.
I’m running version 0.14.0 on both boards. I suspected my issue was stemming from having wifi +ethernet connections simultaneously. Is there a way choose one or the other without loosing access to the wled boards?
Here both work fine, connects via wifi, if I plug ethernet then the connection switches to it, it switches back fine if disconnected…
You could be running into a weird condition because of the power up sequence, e.g. the switch firing up means “ethernet connected” for the ESP but then either the switch or the DHCP server is still booting and not responding, causing some kind of condition where WLED is stuck waiting and doesn’t fall back to WiFi… maybe try powering the boards only after the rest is up.
I’ll try this tonight. Thanks
I would also make sure you are powering up your network components first. If WLED can’t find the network it defaults to it’s AP. I don’t know why you would be powering the network down in the first place. Why not leave the network up?
Also if FPP is running on a Pi and you are killing the power to the Pi all the time at the end of your shows you stand a good chance of corrupting the o/s and having to reinstall FPP to the sd card.
I’m not powering down my home network, just my network switch. Network switch just connects fpp with the two controllers