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WatchDog for Raspberry Pi

Debian / Raspberry Pi

for a Raspberry Pi used in remote, automated systems watchdog timers are essential. „A watchdog timer (sometimes called a computer operating properly or COP timer, or simply a watchdog) is an electronic timer that is used to detect and recover from computer malfunctions. During normal operation, the computer regularly resets the watchdog timer to prevent it from elapsing, or „timing out“. If, due to a hardware fault or program error, the computer fails to reset […]