Enviro Indoor RTC / Reset Button / USB Power Cycle differences

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I have an Enviro Indoor Kit and I’d like to buy some more (now that they’re in stock and currently discounted).

However, I have an issue with the board “locking up” after a few days on USB power (no host attached) that I’d like to clear up first.

I currently using the Enviro Urban with adafruit.io and have made some changes to my Unifi wifi setup, such that I don’t believe there are any issues with the wifi or adafruit.io.

After a few days, I get the flashing red LED, and subsequent pushes on the “prod” button and “reset” button seem to be to no avail.

Only when I remove and replug the USB power, does the unit manage to talk to the adafruit.io again (after pressing the prod button).

In the intervening time “lock-up” there are no transactions queued.

Now, I understand that using USB power must bypass the RTC / Reset circuitry, and that a full USB power cycle will reset more hardware (due to power loss).

I’m just a little surprised that I can’t get an equally clean reset via the RTC / Reset button?

I suppose that a workaround would be to get an USB to power socket converter (i.e. so that I could feed USB power in via the RTC / Reset circuit). but I’m hoping that there might a a firmware fix that could remove the need for additional hardware.

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Are you on the most recent firmware? We released a new version on Friday, which (amongst other things) includes better logging, so it should hopefully be able to give you some clues as to why it’s crashing in the logs.

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Oooh, very interesting. Hadn’t seen that as it’s so new. Thanks for the heads-up. Am running 0.0.8 on my Enviro Indoor and Urban boards. Will upgrade immediately. I see lots of potentially important fixes. Shame about losing voltage monitoring, though :(

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Yeah - hopefully we’ll figure out a way to bring it back!