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a watchdog timer is a simple, low-level electronic timer to detect faults in program execution and recover from malfunction, usually by rebooting the system.

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Can I send a heart beat to hardware watch dog from my own program?

Following on from the question and excellent answer provided by Steve Robillard here: How do I hard reset a Raspberry Pi? How can I send a heartbeat signal from my own program to the BCM2708's hardware watchdog instead of from the Linux watchdog…
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WatchDog Daemon not restarting PI after fork bomb

I have tried to run the WatchDog Daemon using the tutorial found at http://binerry.de/post/28263824530/raspberry-pi-watchdog-timer So basic process I ran through to get WatchDog up and running is: 1. sudo modprobe bcm2708_wdog 2. sudo nano…
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How do I get hardware Watch Dog working in soft-float Wheezy?

I have moved from the beta Wheezy release to the final release currently on the official download page (2012-08-08-wheezy-armel.zip). The hardware watch dog no longer seems to work. I have tried running sudo modprobe bcm2708_wdog, but the device…
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Watchdog timer waking-up Pi after shutdown

I would need the Watchdog timer of the Pi to kiss the halted Pi awake to make it boot again. I know about the Watchdog timer limitations, and that it should not be able to do it, but I have seen reports of users that complain about the "unfortunate"…
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B+ Pi hangs what watchdog settings do I need?

This has been going on for a while. Raspbian B+ regularly updated and kernel updated, nothing connected other than Ethernet cable and power supply is Pi rated(from ModMyPi with a ModMyPi noodle cable). This Pi has UV4L and Motion installed and .…
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Watchdog doesn't load in Raspberry pi 2

I have an raspberry py 2 running debian stretch and I have done all procedures to load watchdog, but I can't get module to work....it just doesn't show anything, even error! I can see watchdog 'device', but I can't see any watchdog module loaded. I…
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Watchdog is running?

I need to enable Watchdog functionality on my RPi. I've followed this guide: https://medium.com/@arslion/enabling-watchdog-on-raspberry-pi-b7e574dcba6b No errors were reported, I installed everything was needed. However I don't need to reset when…
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