you should NOT connect pin 1 and pin6

this works for me, but you may need the 2k2 pull-up on pin5 internal view of meter

I reread the wiki, here -> https://www.letscontrolit.com/wiki/index.php/ESPEasy

this has the Mega version slated for stable release Q3/2018.
It is now Q3/2020.

Does this page require an update?
Or at lease a note it's 2 years out of date?

L.S, to check if a problem was ESPEasy related i upgraded from an older version (mega-20190404) to the latest version mega-20200703. (btw, the problem was NOT ESPEasy related.) i noticed that my %sysname% changed from xxxxx to xxxxx_1. this seems to be the unit number appended to the unit name. whil...

I had a similar issue
See here viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6610

hope that helps

Why not replace the 2nd Arduino with LCD with a nodeMCU or Wemos D1 mini?
that way you have the LCD and WiFi on one device.

If your backup connection is only to restart the router, why not setup controlled access on the backup connection router (login, VPN etc) to connect to the plug?

@TDer i run ESPEasy mostly on sonoff Basics, with 1M Memory. Upgrading those via OTA using the two step process has been less than successful for me, requiring me to dig them up and reflash them manually. So i decided to pick a somewhat stable release and stick with that, and dealing with he issues ...

Riker1, I tried that and could not get it to work reliably, but a reboot worked 100% of the time. maybe a reboot clears something in memory that prevents re-connection. I tested using the following method, as i have only one wifi network and cannot switch that off if i want to live (Wife!!) Testing ...

No sound, and text in turkish.
Why???

Hi,

i just posted this -> viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6610

hope it helps....

Regards,
Rob

Friends, After a recent router failure i experienced that ESPEasy would not reconnect to WiFi on its own. A device reboot was required. All my devices run a stable version of ESPEasy Mega-...... I could not find a script to monitor WiFi without use of plugins not available in the basic stable versio...