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### Watchdog Timer (WDT)

All Arduino Cloud sketches use a **Watchdog Timer (WDT)** by default. The WDT can be used to automatically recover from hardware faults or unrecoverable software errors.
Arduino Cloud sketches use a **Watchdog Timer (WDT)** by default, however, not all boards support this function. The WDT can be used to automatically recover from hardware faults or unrecoverable software errors.

A WDT is essentially a countdown timer, whereas it starts counting from a set value, and upon reaching zero, it resets the board. To prevent it from reaching zero, we continuously call it from the `loop()`, using the `ArduinoCloud.update()` function.

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ArduinoCloud.begin(ArduinoIoTPreferredConnection, false).
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***You can view the source code of this implementation [here](https://github.com/arduino-libraries/ArduinoIoTCloud/tree/master/src/utility/watchdog).***
***You can view the source code of this implementation [here](https://github.com/arduino-libraries/ArduinoIoTCloud/tree/master/src/utility/watchdog) and you can check if your board supports this feature [here](https://github.com/arduino-libraries/ArduinoIoTCloud?tab=readme-ov-file#what).***

### Alternatives to Delays

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