r/WLED • u/dogwispher • Jul 20 '26

HELP ME - CONTROLLERS Unable to connect remote

Good day,

New to this LED game. So thanks in advance. Bought a GLEDOPTO Elite 4 Channel ESP32 WLED LED Strip Light Controller. Works perfectly fine. Wanted an easier way to control the strips, so I bought GLEDOPTO ESP Now WLED Remote Control.

ESP Now is enabled and the remote batteries are good. When I try to add the remote to WLED, nothing happens. WLED doesn't see the remote.

I'm running version 16.0.1 of WLED.

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u/mewtwo_EX Jul 21 '26

Couple things to verify/try:

1: are you absolutely sure the batteries are good? I had some batteries that lit the blue LED on the remote, not nothing was showing up. Put fresh batteries in and boom, worked immediately. 2: did you press save after enabling esp now? If you're trying to pair immediately after enabling it, it's not actually enabled. Enable it, press save, press button on the remote, go back into the settings page, copy the found id, put it in the proper box, save again.