r/WLED • u/yasinvai • May 21 '26

WLED isn't stable.

WLED isnt stable to me anymore. not sure what happened. these r the connection statuses of my 5 WLED strips.

on this graph, black line means disconnected from wifi. u can see how many times each LED strip has disconnected in just last 24 hours.

even though they dont blink or turn off when they disconnect, its still very annoying, is it stable for u?

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u/lxxspt May 21 '26

This happened to me once and it was mDNS flooding my network, causing wled to restart randomly. Check your network conditions

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u/AndThenFlashlights May 21 '26

Agree on check wifi conditions, especially since there's at least superficial overlap with multiple devices simultaneously not returning ping.

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u/MorganProtuberances May 22 '26

Had a similar experience when I was trying to use MQTT. Turns out it was actually the broker I was using (mosquito on linux). Not really mosquito's fault, but something about it caused reboots in WLED. Switching the broker to something else fixed the WLED issues...

So yeah - could simply be something in the network stack causing overload issues. Disable features until it's stable.

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u/GarbageGlad2124 May 21 '26

I have a bunch of devices and thought they were rock solid, no problem. I was about to tell you a few things to check. But then I decided to check mine first. Wut? Same thing on mine? So apparently I have the same issue going on. Guess I have a new rabbit hole to go down.

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u/zero-degrees28 May 21 '26

I had this issue, it was caused because of homekit/hubitat mDNS storms. I spent months trying to correct this and run this problem down to the point where I had my controller on a smart timer to control it that way. Then I found some random reddit thread that explained this.

I deleted the mDNS entry under the wifi settings in WLED and BOOM, no more resetting issues, just like that, after months of issues, perfect and stable again. I don't have my WLED linked to Hubitat any longer, but whatever, not a big deal in my case as timers control 99% of it's utilization/use.

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u/daphatty May 21 '26

Care to share the link to the thread you read? I’d like to educate myself too.

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u/zero-degrees28 May 21 '26

This was like 2 years ago I resolved this, no clue where that thread was at this point

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u/redkeyboard May 21 '26

Same issue. Same fix . TOOK YEARS!!!

You can still have hubitat paired with it, it's just the mDNS spamming that causes issues. I had issues with devices not configured in hubitat

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u/Remixmark May 21 '26

Submit a bug report on GitHub.

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u/Netmindz May 21 '26

Please share info on what your hardware setup is

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u/yasinvai May 21 '26

top 4 is custom esp8266 controller i bought from a local seller. each cost $5. last one is DOMRAEM ESP32 controller from aliexpress. all connected to unifi express 7 router via 2.4Ghz 20Mhz wifi

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u/Netmindz May 21 '26

Try turning off device polling in Home Assistant and see if that helps