State Management Ideas

(Planned) Exporting and Importing

🚧 This feature is planned but has not been implemented yet! 🚧

Export all state and later import it.

rugpi-ctrl state export <file name>.tar.xz

rugpi-ctrl state import <file name>.tar.xz

(Planned) State Profiles

🚧 This feature is planned but has not been implemented yet! 🚧

Sometimes it can be beneficial to support multiple profiles with different state.

rugpi-ctrl state list

rugpi-ctrl state create <profile name>

rugpi-ctrl state switch <profile name>

(Planned) Hardware Reset Button

🚧 This feature is planned but has not been implemented yet! 🚧

Should a device hang in a boot loop or otherwise malfunction because of corrupted state, a hardware reset button may be a convenient way for users to reset a system in the field, without requiring an expensive service technician to come out or sending the device to a repair center. For this purpose, Rugpi Ctrl can be configured to check whether a reset button connected to one of the GPIO pins of the Raspberry Pi is pressed. If this is the case and the button is hold for a specific amount of time, a factory reset can be automatically performed with the option to preserve the corrupted state for later (remote) recovery. Likewise, another button could be programmed to initiate a reboot to the spare system (see Over-the-Air Updates), increasing the resiliency even further.