Scheduled reboot facility

[jefft4]

Would it be possible to add an automatic scheduled reboot to EMS-ESP?

My smart home controller reboots once each week overnight, restarting the MQTT broker with it. My EMS-ESP sometimes fails to re-establish the broker connection after this and sits there doing nothing until I wake up and see the alerts from the controller than EMS hasn't reported in for a few hours. There are also (rarely) problems with it reconnecting EMS, which a reboot soon fixes.

A scheduled reboot option would mean that any temporary problems with EMS-ESP would have a good chance of being resolved without intervention.

[proddy]

Which version are you on? And are you ipv4 or 6? We made some improvements to the MQTT reconnection in v3.5.x. You can also reboot EMS-ESP remotely with an API call via an external scheduler (eg. in HA or ioBroker)

[jefft4]

3.4.4 at present, IPv4 network. I'll try 3.5 when it's out of beta, sounds positive.
Remote reboot is an interesting point; will look into that. It wouldn't help if the ESP lost wi-fi though. I like things to do a local reboot to clean up periodically.

[proddy]

This would be easy to do in #701 - which we're planning to work on after v3.5 is out (before xmas hopefully)

[jefft4]

:-)

[tefracky]

Which version are you on? And are you ipv4 or 6? We made some improvements to the MQTT reconnection in v3.5.x. You can also reboot EMS-ESP remotely with an API call via an external scheduler (eg. in HA or ioBroker)

This is a nice idea. What is the right API-call for a reboot?

[proddy]

It's in the doc. Search for restart

[proddy]

closing. will be addressed in #701