V3 connecting but not loading any patterns. Cannot get to wifi setup screen

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I have a v3 board that won’t boot to wifi setup screen. upon restart a pattern blinks on for 1 second then matrix goes black. Board has solid light. Boots to normal interface, but cannot change pattern or get any pattern to run. Happened after trying to paste some code in a 2D pattern. Seems like I am stuck on a corrupted 2D pattern.

I have gone through repeated restarts , but still no wifi setup screen.

Thanks in advance for any help

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Hi @Booli,

If LEDs flash for a moment before going dark, I’d check that you don’t have the auto-off feature enabled in settings.

Not sure what you mean here, if the interface loads do you need to go through wifi setup? If you can get in the interface, you can always change wifi from the wifi tab. Otherwise hold the button until the orange status LED flashes, then look for the Pixelblaze_XXXXXX network.

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Hey Ben, Thanks for your speedy reply. I’ve been away from this for the last couple years so I’m very rusty, but hope to be more engaged now.

I’ll go check the auto off switch,

I don’t really need the wifi setup page because it is loading. I just was trying to troubleshoot before I narrowed it down.

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Now it won’t load at all from it’s IP address or going through the dicscovery service

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Do you have led’s connected? If so try disconnecting while troubleshooting. Also try using a different power source to power the Pixelblaze itself.

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Also another few things to check are what version of firmware is it running? When did you see the issues start? Did you recently update the controller? If so, do you have an older firmware you can revert to? Is it connected to a dedicated 2.4GHz network? Are you able to create a backup file, or load from a backup file?

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Thank you for all the suggestions. Unfortunately I’m on a trip now and will pick it up when I return and have a chance to try some new suggestions.

Appreciate you reaching out.