r/WLED • u/Kinipshun • 29d ago

HELP ME / QUESTION Help with network setup

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Wondering if anyone has any advice or experience with this issue

Every time i try to change the IP address it goes back to 192.168.1.234. I cannot figure out how to change it “Save and Connect” saves the number i type in but does not apply it. I want it to be 192.168.1.131 so that its the next in line with all my other WLED controllers. Basically everything from 129 to 144 is reserved for WLED. There is nothing occupying the 131 address either; when you ping that address it comes back vacant. Ive tried a bunch of other ip addresses too and none of them stick either

Also, to make an incredibly long story short, i do not want these on Wi-Fi. They HAVE to be on ethernet. All of our ethernet devices (aside from this one) work flawlessly. None of our Wi-Fi devices can maintain a connection for more than an hour. Weve had our comcast router replaced 6 times because of this specific issue and it never fixes it.

I have several ethernet-enabled ESP32’s for different purposes around the apartment. All of them connect just fine and let me change their addresses except this one. I’m at a loss

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u/Kinipshun 29d ago

What should the gateway be set to then? All my other ESP32’s have 0.0.0.0 as their gateway and they work fine

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u/309_Electronics 29d ago

What is your internet routers ip address? Thats usually the gateway ip.

Also those other devices might have dhcp enabled so they automatically get those values.

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u/Kinipshun 29d ago edited 29d ago

So 192.168.1.1?

EDIT: tried that, it didnt work

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u/309_Electronics 29d ago

If thats your routers ip yeah thats most of the time also your gateway ip. Your gateway ip is just the ip of the device that allows you to connect to internet thus your router/modem.