Background Calculation on device - is it possible without triggering Watchdog?

I have a bit of calculation to do in my app - basically it is couple embedded loop with simple operations in them - around 30K addition operations in total. Normally it runs in less than a second, but it manages to trigger Watchdog after about 3K iterations:

Error: Watchdog Tripped Error - Code Executed Too Long

Is it possible to have longer execution time in some sort of background thread?

0 jim_m_58 over 5 years ago

No.

0 MobileDriveway over 5 years ago

If it is not possible, purhaps it should be added in the future releases...

0 jim_m_58 over 5 years ago in reply to MobileDriveway

Is there a reason why you're not doing this in the main app instead of a background service? In the main app you can do things like only calculating a section at a time.

The watchdog exists to prevent long calculations as you are attempting - they can hog the CPU

0 MobileDriveway over 5 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Section at a time would be way too complex as underlying data changes all the time too. Background thread with lower priority (so not to hog CPU) would have been much better.

0 jim_m_58 over 5 years ago in reply to MobileDriveway

Not possible. Recall that CIQ is single threaded.

0 Travis.ConnectIQ over 5 years ago

You'll have to split the work up and perform bits of it over time.