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Hello, not much of a coder. I have an Esp8266 Wi-Fi board set up to trigger ifttt alerts when a door sensor has been triggered. It successfully connects to Wi-Fi and sends alerts.
Here's the tutorial where I learned from: http://www.simpleiothings.com/10-diy-door-sensor/

The problem is, if for whatever reason the Wi-Fi drops, it does not automatically reconnect unless I reset the power to the board.

Any way to solve this? I use LuaLoader to upload the lua files to the board.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Hi,

You need to periodically check if the WIFI is still alive or not. If it drops then simply reconnect.

Indeed, what the poster above said.

Easiest way is probably to monitor for "Station Connected" or "Station Disconnected" and either reconnect (or reset, if a reset will reconnect) as appropriate.