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title: Watchdog
slug: microflux-2mpi/watchdog
icon: {"faIcon":"fa-solid fa-helmet-safety"}
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createdAt: 2025-05-27T04:53:26.495Z
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The micro**FLUX** firmware has a watchdog timer to help the device recover from a software crash or unrecoverable error condition. If the firmware becomes unresponsive the device will forcibly restart to recover from the error condition.

A watchdog reset will set an error that is viewable in the configuration tool.

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A watchdog reset indicates either a software or hardware fault. Support should be contacted if a watchdog reset has occurred.
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## Recovering from a Watchdog Reset

A watchdog reset will be detected as a warm reboot and output status will be retained. See the warm boot detection page for more information:

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