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Arduino Lab for MicroPython is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for MicroPython.
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Reset button in IDE #101

Open stevejoung opened 5 months ago

stevejoung commented 5 months ago

The reset button in the IDE doesn't reset the board like removing the USB and replugging it does.

ubidefeo commented 5 months ago

hi @stevejoung

The reset in the interface is a MicroPython machine.soft_reset(). Unplugging the board would result in a disconnection from the editor and the REPL

It is intended to be so :)

stevejoung commented 5 months ago

My problem is that any LEDs lit by a previous program are not extingushed on reset, making futher use of the LEDs for status indication impossible.

ubidefeo commented 4 months ago

@stevejoung

from the MicroPython documentation

A soft reset simply clears the state of the MicroPython virtual machine, but leaves hardware peripherals unaffected. To do a soft reset, simply press Ctrl+D on the REPL, or within a script do:

import sys
sys.exit()

To obtain the results you expect, you should issue a hard reset.

A hard reset is the same as performing a power cycle to the board. In order to hard reset the WiPy, press the switch on the board or:

import machine
machine.reset()

A hard reset would disconnect the board from the editor, which is not what we want/need. If a disconnection is acceptable for you, you should hard reset the board using its onboard reset button