Set up everything, tested fine. Relocated and now it's not working?

Macboy

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Hello all. I've got an oddball on my hands here. I had FPP running on a Pi 3B+ (the latest release downloaded two weeks ago), plugged into a wifi router via ethernet cable (not connected to the internet) running seven Renard ESP Pixel sticks. It was all running fine at my place. I moved it to it's new home, plugged everything in and now nothing is running.

I can connect to each pixel stick, through the wifi connection and enable their test modes (they light up). I can connect to the Pi through the wifi connection and load and start and stop and reset etc. I can ALSO ping each ESP through FPP successfully.

FPP does run - as verified by a test playlist I set up using ONLY the audio.

The Pi and Wifi router are housed in a holiday trailer and the furthest ESP is not more than 50 yards from the router, the closest is about 20 feet away. There are a few trees but I'm almost line of sight to each controller.

In this park there are hundreds of thousands of LEDs lit up - could it be interference? I would think not - especially since my connection to the ESPs seems strong. Just had to throw that out there.

Can anyone offer me things I should look to to troubleshoot this? Again, it was running fine in my basement where there are about nine different wifi networks all competing for attention. I literally just unplugged things and then plugged it all back in.
 

BAZMick

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Have you tried bringing an ESP Pixel Stick inside the trailer and seeing if you get connection? The trailer could be reducing the strength of the wifi signal.
 

TerryK

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Beyond the verification of hardware connections, what about IP addresses? Are they dynamic or static and are they on the same subnet?
 
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