ESP Device online but no sensors or switches

ESPHome
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Guys,

Recently updated to ESPHome 2026.1.0 and there is an issue with one of my devices.

I can see it in the ESPHome Addon and it indicates as “on-line”, I can ping it and can visit via the device ‘visit’ button. When I visit I just get a blank page instead of the all the switches and sensors I had there before.

I have tried to update / upload the config. When I do I get this error:

======================== [SUCCESS] Took 540.30 seconds ========================
INFO Build Info: config_hash=0x208ad1de build_time_str=2026-01-24 16:10:35 +1100
INFO Successfully compiled program.
INFO Connecting to 192.168.1.150 port 8266...
ERROR Connecting to 192.168.1.150 port 8266 failed: [Errno 113] No route to host
ERROR Connection failed.
WARNING Failed to upload to ['192.168.1.150']

Earlier, when connecting to view the logs, I saw this error:

WARNING Can't connect to ESPHome API for switch-irrigation-4ch @ 192.168.1.150: switch-irrigation-4ch @ 192.168.1.150: The connection dropped immediately after encrypted hello; Try enabling encryption on the device or turning off encryption on the client (ESPHome Logs 2026.1.0) (EncryptionHelloAPIError)

I have not changed my API settings, which are:

api:
  encryption:
    key: !secret esp_home_key
  # password: !secret esp_home_password

I have cleaned the build files but the problem persists.

Kinda need to get this back on line and installing via USB is going to problematic.

Not sure what has happened, can anyone shed some light on a reason and/or a possible fix?

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Reboot once again. Maybe it might find a network connection to complete an update.
Consider static IP addresses.

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Thanks, in what may be one of the greatest self owns in the history of this board, I cycled the power this morning and it came back to life. Should have been the first thing I did. :man_facepalming:t2:

Thanks for the feedback and taking to time to point out what should have been obvious. The device does have a static IP.

Thanks again.

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Yes, some of those updates are multimegabyte and take a little while to download.