I have a simple project, a simple home security system. When a door is opened, it beeps a piezo and connects to a URL (this is a perl script that emails me that a door was opened). So if I am not home and I get an alert I know someone else is at my house.
I had my ethernet shield working for awhile, but after about 8 hours it would stop working and need to be reset. The piezo would still buzz, but it wouldn't hit that web server. I had posted before about this.
Now, the ethernet shield doesn't seem to work at all, it doesn't even light up for activity. The wire is good, and I haven't touched it in weeks (or maybe months), whereas I used to hit the reset button each day before I left for work.
Is my ethernet shield fried? Do you think I shorted it somehow with all the resets? Any way this could be related to the problem I had before where it would stop working after 8 hours?