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My guess (and it is just that) is that the problems may occur when your WiFi temporarily fails. WiFi sometimes has brief outages which in normal circumstances go unnoticed. It would explain the varied uptimes you are experiencing. A way to diagnose it is to set client.DEBUG = True on each of your bo...

@skyman32 An LDR is a device whose resistance changes with light intensity. It doesn't generate voltage. To convert resistance to voltage you need a second resistor. With the LDR wired between the ADC input and Gnd, you need a resistor between the ADC input and 3.3V (assuming you're using a Pyboard)...

@dwculp Are you aware that two of the timers support decoding quadrature encoders in hardware? http://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/p ... or-a-timer see Timer.channel modes.

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In general to implement such a feature you need a hardware watchdog timer: if the 'crash' is caused by code going into an infinite loop, no exception will be thrown. The chip used on the Pyboard has such hardware, but as far as I know the ESP8266 doesn't and external hardware would be required.

Have you looked at http://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/e ... ckref.html?

If you're using a release build of firmware I think you need to use esp8266-20160809-v1.8.3.bin rather than the latest nightly build. It seems that the nightly builds don't include the libraries. Alternatively copy the file as suggested by @deshipu.