William: That would work.
The only "edge case" I might see as a problem would be if your ping target went off line. Then the BBB would reboot itself every ten minutes even though nothing was wrong with the BBB. I guess you could ping several different targets in rotation and only reboot if they all disappeared. This gets us back to a real cheap local watchdog. As an aside: Does anyone know what test a computer runs to determine if it is connected to the internet? Most desktop/laptop computers have a different network icon as to whether the network/WiFi you connected to has internet connectivity. Is the Windows computer pinging some Microsoft location that is "guaranteed" to be up? --- Graham == On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 2:30 PM, William Hermans <yyrk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > @Graham, > > What I propose is that you do not need an Ethernet Micro connected to the > BBB. Instead, you have the BBB ping the outside world once every set time > frame, and it a ping comes back unreachable after say 5-10 minutes. You > just stop "kicking the dog". Which does present a potential problem that > Your internet connection may just be down. But a remote system that reboots > once every 5-10 minutes because the internet connection is down is not > something I'd personally see as a bad thing. After all you're unable to > connect to the system anyway. > == -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CANN_KV6MEtkBkkjA-xc3KKzeNRh6LDpoB1xrBnN%2BZo6gJgLX6w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
