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0.5.7 — restart from the settings page

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@mattg8892 mattg8892 released this 23 Aug 21:17
· 5 commits to main since this release

The camera can now restart itself.

Enabling I²C for the dew heater writes a line to the boot config, which only takes effect at boot — and the card said "reboot to finish" while offering no way to do it. The only route left was pulling the power, which is not the same thing: a cold pull skips the filesystem sync, and doing it moments after a boot-config write is a good way to corrupt the card. That happened here.

Added

  • Restart under Set up once — a clean restart, asked for by name, since it stops capture for about a minute.
  • A restart offered inline in the dew heater card, right where enabling I²C asks for one.

The helper has been able to do this since the camera-overlay flow needed it; the reboot is scheduled through systemd on a short timer so the page gets its response before the machine goes down. It simply had no way in from Settings.

Note

If a settings change tells you a restart is needed, use this rather than the power lead.