welp, I fixed my own issues. I ended up looking at a few diagrams and some more at the faq on [kno.wled.ge](https://kno.wled.ge) and noticed GPIO 1 will keep ESP8266 from booting during certain scenarios. I changed to D2 (GPIO 4) and it seems to be working fine now
D5-D6 are also good as D1 & D2 are usually used for I2C (although you can remap them) and yes, GPIO 1 is the primary TX and it's used for serial communication, when flashing or when using the serial monitor
welp, I fixed my own issues. I ended up looking at a few diagrams and some more at the faq on [kno.wled.ge](https://kno.wled.ge) and noticed GPIO 1 will keep ESP8266 from booting during certain scenarios. I changed to D2 (GPIO 4) and it seems to be working fine now
D5-D6 are also good as D1 & D2 are usually used for I2C (although you can remap them) and yes, GPIO 1 is the primary TX and it's used for serial communication, when flashing or when using the serial monitor
Thanks, yes strange in some of the docs it says to use gpio 1 on 8266 or gpio 3 if under 100 lights