I’ve been playing around with FastLED and esp’s and came across this wonderful library for setting up your networking.
I’ve found it extremely useful, hope you do, too.
True story! I’m planning on adjusting it so it runs the leds at the same time as the manager server. I’d also like it to serve up both the WiFi manager and an html led control panel (essentially a front end to a rest interface)… If only there were 28 hours in the day 
@Matt_Ebel Thats exactly what ive got set up. Because the WifiManager is ephemeral, it doesn’t interfere with the LED control webserver as created by +Juergen Bruegl.
There is a fork by Ken Taylor that keeps the wifi config alive, as well: https://github.com/kentaylor/WiFiManager/
@Mike_Thornbury , I’ve been trying to get the Ken Taylor version to work. It’s got so much potential, the android setup app, double reset on the D1 mini to launch the config page etc. But haven’t had much success with it yet. @Matt_Ebel , I agree we need at least 28 hours in the day and 8 days in a week 
@Jeremy_Spencer , I must say I have only used Tzapu’s so far, and its worked great for my needs. I will look at Ken Taylor’s version tomorrow and see if I can get it working. Looking at his Git, there’s no issues raised and he’s actively working on it with 16 other contributors. I would have thought after 8 months development, if there was a problem there would have been at least an issue. Maybe if you bung me your code I can see where your problem is?
Thanks @Mike_Thornbury , I was just trying the example. I think that I’m probably missing something obvious. Probably SPIFFs related, I’ll try and spend some time on it today, and I’ll try another board as they sometimes seem to retain WiFi data…
Are you loading the web pages to SPIFFs?
Not sure what it was, just tried again with a fresh board and a new USB cable and now it’s all working