Any way to reboot the ESP from the touchscreen?

[mattster98]

I had a failure mode recently I haven't encountered before where the touch panel is working, but it is not on the network or connected to MQTT. I eventually had to disconnect power to recover. It came back fine - not sure what the issue was.

But, it made me realize I don't think there's any other way to force a reboot other than via MQTT. I saw an option in the code to force a reboot when p[0].b[1] is pressed, but it's false by default. Is something like that the best/only option? I see you can restart the nextion lcd with a button command, but I don't think that would have helped.

I was thinking long-pressing any button for more than X seconds might be a reasonable watchdog-style reboot mechanism. Not sure if that's possible. Or, if the ESP can see the nextion reboot I could use that option to trigger it.

[aderusha]

rebootOnp0b1 is set true while the code is handling the WiFi connection or MQTT connection with the intent of giving the user a chance to reboot the system during these steps if something isn't working.

A long press (or maybe "press 5 times in two seconds" or similar) might be another solution that could be setup to run at all times. I'll add this as a feature request and maybe figure something out that works a little better than the current solution.

[aderusha]

Allright, added this feature to the current 1.06 development branch. Hold any button down for 10 seconds (or more), release, and the device will trigger a reboot.