Help no connection without WiFi.begin();

[kae90]

Hi, I've been using WifiManager for a few years. Now I've made some updates to the FirebaseClient, replacing Service auth with user auth, and suddenly I've encountered a problem.
I've always started WifiManager like this:

#include <WiFiManager.h> // https://github.com/tzapu/WiFiManager

void setup(){
Serial.begin(115200);

WiFi.mode(WIFI_STA);
WiFiManager wm;
wm.setConnectTimeout(-1);
WiFi.setAutoReconnect(true);
wm.setBreakAfterConfig(true);

while (WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED) {
Serial.println(F("Not connected!"));
delay(1000);
if (digitalRead(D5) == LOW) {
wm.autoConnect("test","12345678");
delay(1000);
ESP.restart();
} }
timeClient.begin(); //NTP
timeClient.update();
InitializeFirebase();
}

After changing FirebaseClient access to "user auth," WiFiManager can't find the WiFi credentials and is stuck in the while loop on not connected.
To get the device to connect, I simply add WiFi.begin(); before WiFi.mode(WIFI_STA); and it connects immediately.
Am I doing something wrong with WifiManager?
Thanks and congratulations on the fantastic library.

[tablatronix]

Sounds like an odd issue, without debug logs no idea, my guess is something in the firebase lib is causing this and that it is an issue in espCore

[kae90]

Sounds like an odd issue, without debug logs no idea, my guess is something in the firebase lib is causing this and that it is an issue in espCore

What log can I show you? Are CORE and WIFI OK?
I noticed that if I don't use WiFi.begin(), no log is shown.
Thanks