HASwitchPlate
Any way to reboot the ESP from the touchscreen?
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.
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.
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.