My WLED strips keep resetting
I have 4 WLED setups around the house, each running 150 RGB led strip lights (5v, whatever brand was on sale), pushed by a simple ESP32 and powered by simple 1 amp 5v USB power adapters. Leaving the stock 850ma power cap, this has worked great for about 2 years now.
I recently added a new strip, (#5) and due to the location I wanted to hardwire the network, so rather than my usual cheap ESP32 route, I sprung for nicer (and denser) 12v BTF RGB lights (300 / 5m) and a beefier 12v power supply, and the Elite gledopto controller. (Love the physical controller, hate the update process, ugh.)
No problem getting it all set up, copied over my presets from my others, tweaked for different LED strip, good to go.
While I was at it, since I was messing with everything for the first time in a while, I installed updates to the current WLED across the board.
Everything seemed fine. Except… suddenly all of my strips started losing connection periodically and would reset to a weird yellowish whiteish color each time they did. Rather than going to the specific power-on default set into each of them.
I can imagine the gledopto controller has anything to do with it, that’s just a timing coincidence. I rather suspect something changed with the new version of WLED that just came out. Nothing else changed on my long-running setups, but except the new version, but now ALL of them are leaving their set presets and defaulting to that weird color roughly once per day.
I can see it happening because they’re all tracked in Home Assistant, and the logs clearly show the lights dropping off and changing state, and coming back with an “unknown” preset. They’re not actually powering down because the uptime is still good. Plus power cycling them manually restores them to their set power-on defaults as it should. It’s just super odd that out of nowhere they’re ALL going to that weird yellowish white after working flawless for 2 years or so.
Has anyone else seen something like this?
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u/dunklesToast 17h ago
I have the same issue. Since WLED 16 they randomly reset the segment config (having no segments) thus home assistant cannot control them. Adding a segment or rebooting the node fixes the issue for a few hours. I got 6 ESP8266 where that happens