try and fix reliability issues

CIRCUITPY/weather_station/airlift.py

@@ -13,23 +13,20 @@ class AirLift():
         self.wifi_pass = os.getenv("WIFI_PASSWORD")
         self._setup()
         pubsub.subscribe("mqtt_pub", self._publish)
+
     def _publish(self, body):
         self.mqtt_client.publish(body['topic'], body['msg'])
-        # print(body['msg'])
-    def reset(self):
-        print("Resetting AIRLIFT")
-        self.esp.reset()
-        time.sleep(5)
-        self._connect()
     
-    def _connect(self):
+    def connect(self):
         while not self.esp.is_connected:
             try:
                 print(f"Trying to connect to {self.ssid}")
                 self.esp.connect_AP(self.ssid, self.wifi_pass)
-            except ConnectionError as e:
-                print("Could not connect to AP, sleeping for 10 sec then trying again\n", e)
-                time.sleep(10)
+            except (RuntimeError, ConnectionError) as e:
+                print("Ran into problem connecting to AP", e)
+                time.sleep(5)
+                self.esp.reset()
+                time.sleep(5)
                 continue
         print("Connected to", str(self.esp.ssid, "utf-8"), "\tRSSI:", self.esp.rssi)
 
@@ -43,7 +40,7 @@ class AirLift():
             print("ESP32 found and in idle mode")
         print("Firmware vers.", self.esp.firmware_version)
         print("MAC addr:", [hex(i) for i in self.esp.MAC_address])
-        self._connect()
+        self.connect()
 
         # MQTT inspiration from https://docs.circuitpython.org/projects/minimqtt/en/latest/examples.html
         def connect(mqtt_client, userdata, flags, rc):
@@ -71,6 +68,7 @@ class AirLift():
             broker=os.getenv("MQTT_HOST"),
             username=os.getenv("MQTT_USER"),
             password=os.getenv("MQTT_PASSWORD"),
+            client_id='balcony_weather_station'
         )
 
         self.mqtt_client.on_connect = connect