force "Reboot device"

[doniks]

Feature Request 🚀

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

When I get the board to hang, then the "Reboot device" is not able to get me out of this. I have to physically find the device on my desk and press the reset button.

As a dummy reproduction, consider the following:

import machine
machine.deepsleep(60000)

The device goes to deep sleep, no more REPL. When I use the "Reboot device" menu button now, it writes "Rebooting device" but otherwise nothing happens. I have to manually reset the device.

Describe the solution you'd like

I know that pycom-fwtool-cli is capable of resetting the device. E.g., pycom-fwtool-cli --port /what/ever chip_id will (print the chip id and) reset the device

It would be great if pymakr could do this. Would obviously only work for usb connections

[peter-pycom]

I think similarly the upload is a "cooperative" implementation, ie, pymakr expects the device to go into safe boot mode by sending some commands via the terminal, while over USB, I think it should be able to force a safe boot reboot.