ESP8266 always resetting after 65 second of running

Question

I have a simple code where ESP8266 is asking MySQL database about actual state of LED (whether 1 or 0) and when DB has 1 ESP8266 turns LED on... But my problem is after 65-66 seconds of server running is still resetting... The program does what it is supposed to do, but after 65-66 seconds resets and trying to reconnecting to wifi

---- EDIT -----

After some experiments with code I have found, it doesn't matter the running time but, number of loop cycles... Every time no matter on delay or processing speed, it crash after 48 cycles....

.ino code

// Load Wi-Fi library
#include <ESP8266WiFi.h>
#include <WiFiClient.h> 
#include <ESP8266WebServer.h>
#include <ESP8266HTTPClient.h>
// Replace with your network credentials
const char* ssid = "XXXX";
const char* password = "XXXX";
const char* host = "http://www.XXXX.XX/arduino_PHP/post_data.php"; 
// Set web server port number to 80
WiFiServer server(80);
HTTPClient http; 
// Variable to store the HTTP request
String header;
// Auxiliar variables to store the current output state
String output5State = "off";
String output4State = "off";
// Assign output variables to GPIO pins
const int output5 = 5;
const int output4 = 4;
byte green, red= 0;
void setup() {
 Serial.begin(115200);
 // Initialize the output variables as outputs
 WiFi.mode(WIFI_OFF); //Prevents reconnection issue (taking too long to connect)
 WiFi.mode(WIFI_STA); //This line hides the viewing of ESP as wifi hotspot
 delay(1000);
 pinMode(output5, OUTPUT);
 pinMode(output4, OUTPUT);
 // Set outputs to LOW
 digitalWrite(output5, LOW);
 digitalWrite(output4, LOW);
 // Connect to Wi-Fi network with SSID and password
 Serial.print("Connecting to ");
 Serial.println(ssid);
 WiFi.begin(ssid, password);
 while (WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED) {
 delay(500);
 Serial.print(".");
 }
 // Print local IP address and start web server
 Serial.println("");
 Serial.println("WiFi connected.");
 Serial.println("IP address: ");
 Serial.println(WiFi.localIP());
 server.begin();
}
void loop(){
delay(500);
DB_state("Green",green);
DB_state("Red",red);
delay(500);
}
void DB_state(String component,int state){
 String postData =("component=" + String(component) + "&state=" + String(state));
 Serial.println(postData);
 http.begin("http://www.XXXX.XX/arduino_PHP/DB_state.php"); 
 http.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
 http.POST(postData); //Send the request
 String payload = http.getString(); //Get the response payload
 Serial.println(payload);
 http.end(); //Close connection
 state_LED(payload,component);
 }
void state_LED(String str, String led){ 
 int x; 
 if (led== "Green") {
 x = 4;}
 else if (led== "Red") {
 x = 5;}
 if (str == "State: 1") {
 digitalWrite(x, HIGH);}
 else if (str == "State: 0") {
 digitalWrite(x, LOW);}
 }
 

ESP8266 Stack debug

Exception 28: LoadProhibited: A load referenced a page mapped with an attribute that does not permit loads
PC: 0x4020744a: ClientContext::state() const at C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\esp8266\hardware\esp82662円.7.4\libraries\ESP8266WiFi\src/include/ClientContext.h line 364
EXCVADDR: 0x00000184
Decoding stack results
0x40203f10: HardwareSerial::write(unsigned char const*, unsigned int) at C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\esp8266\hardware\esp82662円.7.4\cores\esp8266/HardwareSerial.h line 164
0x40203f1c: HardwareSerial::write(unsigned char const*, unsigned int) at C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\esp8266\hardware\esp82662円.7.4\cores\esp8266/HardwareSerial.h line 165
0x40207512: HTTPClient::connected() at C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\esp8266\hardware\esp82662円.7.4\libraries\ESP8266HTTPClient\src\ESP8266HTTPClient.cpp line 475
0x40202d24: HTTPClient::disconnect(bool) at C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\esp8266\hardware\esp82662円.7.4\libraries\ESP8266HTTPClient\src\ESP8266HTTPClient.cpp line 434
0x40203ac8: HTTPClient::end() at C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\esp8266\hardware\esp82662円.7.4\libraries\ESP8266HTTPClient\src\ESP8266HTTPClient.cpp line 425
0x402012ba: DB_State(String, int) at C:\Users\XXXX\Documents\Arduino\ESP8266_php_DB_control/ESP8266_php_DB_control.ino line 87
0x40201334: loop() at C:\Users\XXXX\Documents\Arduino\ESP8266_php_DB_control/ESP8266_php_DB_control.ino line 73
0x40100175: esp_schedule() at C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\esp8266\hardware\esp82662円.7.4\cores\esp8266\core_esp8266_main.cpp line 125
0x40205628: loop_wrapper() at C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\esp8266\hardware\esp82662円.7.4\cores\esp8266\core_esp8266_main.cpp line 197

Thanks for any advice

• the busybee: So it might be a memory issue like a leak or resource allocation problem.
• Sahasrar: I thought so, but how fix it?
• the busybee: Before you can fix it, you need to identify it. Read the documentation of WiFiServer and HTTPClient, use your web search skills on the detailed error message of "exception 28", and so on. Check your findings and assumptions with test programs; for example, call http.POST() twice in DB_state() and count the numbers of loops.
• Juraj: as first I would stop using String
• Sahasrar: Why? And how you replace it?

Answer 1

I don't know how, but finally I have found working solution... I have add HTTPClient http; at top of function and it works...

void DB_state(String component,int state){
HTTPClient http; // THIS IS ADDED
 String postData =("component=" + String(component) + "&state=" + String(state));
 Serial.println(postData);
 http.begin("http://www.XXXX.XX/arduino_PHP/DB_state.php"); 
 http.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
 http.POST(postData); //Send the request
 String payload = http.getString(); //Get the response payload
 Serial.println(payload);
 http.end(); //Close connection
 state_LED(payload,component);
 }

Can anyone explain me how it's possible? Because I don't fully understand this procedure.

• nanofarad: You now construct and destruct the HTTPClient object in that scope each time, as C++ specifies. Presumably the global one leaks some sort of resource, but I can only speculate on that front.
• Sahasrar: Sorry, i don't understand. Could you be more simlier?
• nanofarad: I can't break this down any further in the space provided to me by a comment. I suggest taking a tutorial on C++ that covers objects, constructors, destructors, and such, which will provide this info in a far cleaner way. But basically, instead of having one HTTPClient for the lifetime of the program, you create a new HTTPClient and clean it up after each request -- This makes sense intuitively, but I don't know the internals of HTTPClient enough to know why it happens to eventually crash if you reuse the same instance over and over again.
• Juraj: github.com/esp8266/Arduino/issues/7613#issuecomment-700782051