Thank you for the reply. Like I said it's not a major issue and I don't mind pressing the button if I have to. I was just curious why the behavior is different on the 2 operating systems. That thread explained it. Thanks again.

I was about to say, I've had this problem before with a 1602 display and it was caused by bad solder joints. Glad you found the issue and solved it. Some of these displays can be of poor quality.

Not a big issue, but I noticed something strange with the ESP32 Devkit V1. I develop on my laptop which is dual-boot (Windows and Linux). Using Arduino v.1.8.9 on both. When I develop in Linux and compile/upload a sketch, I don't have to press BOOT on the ESP32 board to upload. When I develop in Win...

Yes that worked. The LED on/off/blinking and responsive to commands though with a little delay which shouldn't really matter for my next purpose. I'm pretty happy with this approach, should work with my intended project (this was a test of course). That is a remote kiln controller which would need t...

Thanks again, my inexperience is showing. This works great to blink the LED while having the web server still active. My issue is now that if the LED is blinking and I try to turn it off, it stops blinking but remains on. I think it's a timing issue, and to solve it I probably need another variable ...

Hmm I see. That makes sense now that I think about it, thanks. I'll have to figure out how to handle multithreading on the ESP in Arduino.

Let me start by saying I am new to ESP32 but I do have some experience with Arduino. I'm probably somewhere between an advanced novice, or a low-level intermediate Arduino user. I have next to zero programming experience outside of Arduino. But I did make some nice custom Arduino projects. I'm ready...