Remote rebooting is a key capability for maintaining the stability, uptime, and responsiveness of distributed systems and devices. By enabling administrators to restart their devices from any location, it helps resolve system freezes, recover from errors, and apply critical updates without the need for on-site intervention.
How to Remotely Reboot Machines with TPS Devices
Use a Relay Tibbit
Controls: Relay.
Relay Tibbits, such as #03, #06, #07, and #15 give TPS easy to use relays for controlling various types of devices. When a relay line is connected to the RESET header of a machine, TPS can be used to reboot a device remotely through logic configured in AppBlocks, e.g., via a web dashboard or MQTT notification.
Schematic:
Example:
Click here to see an example project that sets Tibbit #03-1's "RELAY "1" to LOW when an AppBlocks Cloud dashboard button is pressed. If "RELAY 1" is connected to the RESET header pins of a machine, e.g. a desktop computer, as shown in the schematic above, this will cause the device to reset.
