Reset Photon over Cloud

Troubleshooting
1

Hello,

I have very basic need of resetting photon on field if there some corruption in code. Can I reset it by connecting it to laptop over cloud?

Please advice.

Thanks.!
Kind Regards,
Iqram

2

Sure, you can do that as long as the Photon is connected to the cloud, and it’s not stuck in a loop that won’t let it respond to a function call or a published event. So, you can either call a function, or publish an event that the Photon subscribes to. Set a flag in the function handler or subscribe handler that you check in loop,

bool shouldReset = false;

void loop() {
    
    if (shouldReset == true) {
        shouldReset = false;
        System.reset();
    }
    // other loop stuff
}


int resetPhoton(String cmd) { // function handler
    shouldReset = true;
    return 1;
}
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@Iqram, another way to reset your Photon when corruption occurs is to use the application watchdog :wink:

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