[Help] AL-LC01 flashing problems about arilux_al-lc0x HOT 5 CLOSED

I ended up soldering wires to VCC and GND pins of the ESP-12S chip. VCC goes to 3.3V of FTDI.
Please note, that I did not shorted GPIO0 to anywhere!
And restarted Arduino IDE.
This way I could upload the firmware on the device.

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I'm reopening this issue because even though flashing went smoothly after I resolved the wiring issue and I registered the device in Home Assistant the RGB LED strip does not turn on.
The device receives the correct JSON command from the topic RGB/<id>/json/set but the LEDs are not turning on.
I enabled JSON by uncommenting #define JSON.

What do I do wrong?

Example command and return value:

RGB/0091807C/json/set {"state": "ON", "color": {"r": 163, "g": 0, "b": 246}}
RGB/0091807C/json/state {"state":"ON","brightness":255,"white_value":0,"color":{"r":163,"g":0,"b":246}}

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Hi @papaiatis,
Is your module connected to a 12v source? If yes, they may have changed the connections between the ESP and the light strip.

Can you provide me the link where you bought it? I'll maybe order a new version.

Sam

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@mertenats Yes it's connected, otherwise it wouldn't appear through HA discovery and it wouldn't respond to commands.
I bought it last December on Banggood, so it's not a new product.
I'm afraid I may have fried something while soldering the wires. Not sure how to test it though.
The LED strip is fine, tested with another RF controller.
Any idea would be appreciated.

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I ended up starting everything all over, checked every component, fixed any bad-looking soldering, checked RGB strip, re-flashed firmware, etc... And it magically started working. 👍

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