the code is only executed once when exiting offmode: at the end of the function, offmode is disabled.

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@DedeHai on a second look - do you think that the same delay should also be added at startup when initially controlling the relay? If yes, then maybe this location should also be changed:

https://github.com/Aircoookie/WLED/blob/bb0c0af1893e774f8401515083097caf0429c381/wled00/wled.cpp#L590-L593

WLED::beginStrip() runs once at startup, long before handleIO() gets called for the first time.

Just a random after-merge thought. Could be I'm just not involved at discord so I missed something important 🤷‍♂️ ...

I thought about that too, but I have noticed recently, that there may be a bug in that part of the code and I wanted to take a closer look at: I did notice in a test, that the relay did not always switch to on depending on config settings and preset settings.
in addition (unrelated): I would like to change the "orange color" behavior at bootup: if there are more than 1 segments, it is impossible to get anything else than orange on the higher numbered segments, which actually puzzles me that there was never a request to change that. or it may just be me: I always shut down my lights with a hard switch rather than putting them in standby, so this behaviour of orange at bootup is annoying.
I have a branch with a fix ready for PR with only one downside: if a new segment is created, it will be black instead of orange, to keep that, the web UI would need to set it so as WLED cannot know if a segment is new or if it changed from a preset.