So I have brought a NodeMCU and I am just trying to get a basic project to work over wifi. Well this project here: https://randomnerdtutorials.com/esp8266-web-server-with-arduino-ide
Now I have it all setup and ready to go I uploaded the code to the board and the serial told me Wifi Connected, ip address 192.168.1.12
I navigate to the ip address on either my phone or computer and they both tell me this site cant be reached.
I tried googling the answer to this issue on my own however all that comes up is "make sure the device is on the same network" and that's the only answer that I can find. All my devices are on the same ssid.
after a while of googling I tried flashing it with NODEMCU FIRMWARE PROGRAMER and it looked like it flashed successfully but it did not make any difference.
then I tried to see if I could use ESPlorer but everytime I try to connect it just keeps saying communication with mcu... and just hangs there.
Can someone please tell me whats going wrong. I've tried to look on the nodeMCU website but there support page just redirects me to here stack overflow.
Thank you
So I worked out that the problem was with the network router for some reason it was stopping my nodeMCU from being viewed on the network. I factory reset the router and evey thing then worked.