WDT with asyncio

[vigorem]

I'm trying to implement a wdt using @peterhinch' excellent micropython-mqtt

He kindly indicated me a way to do so (on the git issue board) with the following:

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import uasyncio as asyncio
from machine import WDT

async def do_wdt():
    tim = 300000
    wdt = WDT(timeout=tim)
    while True:
        wdt.feed()
        await asyncio.sleep(tim // 10)  # Feed 10 times in timeout period (very conservative)

...
loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.create_task(do_wdt())

Unfortunatly I get an error "TypeError: function doesn't take keyword arguments" which I suspect comes from the

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WDT(timeout=tim)

line.

How could I properly handle this WDT coroutine?

Many thanks,

Sébastien

[vigorem]

My shame, looks the issue is related to ESP8266 boards, used a custom WDT class found on the forum and looks good so far :

viewtopic.php?t=6376#p36275

[pythoncoder]

A quick experiment suggests that the ESP8266 WDT does not accept an argument. It seems to have a timeout of about 2 seconds. If it's a hardware WDT, so long as you can feed it frequently enough, it may be better than the software WDT.

If you want to try it I suggest creating a coroutine which instantiates it then loops forever feeding it (say) every 500ms. Start the coroutine when your code has connected to the server.

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import uasyncio as asyncio

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async def do_wdt():
    wdt = machine.WDT()
    while True:
        await asyncio.sleep_ms(500)
        wdt.feed()

After connection:

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    loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
    loop.create_task(do_wdt())

The reason for waiting until after connection is that DNS in particular can block for longer than the WDT period.