brown-SSW / brown-solar-charger

This program monitors a solar power system and runs a physical and online dashboard.
https://brown-ssw.github.io/brown-solar-charger/
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watchdog timer device for restarting crashing esp32 #34

Open joshua-8 opened 3 years ago

joshua-8 commented 3 years ago

Doug Wilkinson suggested that we think of a way to automatically reset the esp32 if it locks up.

ESP32s seem to have some internal watchdog timer features-look into enabling that

A second microcontroller could reset the esp32 if the esp32 stops telling the microcontroller that it is functioning. The second microcontroller could be a much simpler device, or maybe a second esp32 that could actually communicate with us or even take over.