How to restart the Balena device from the container itself

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I have a raspberrypi running balenaOS. I would like to restart the device from the container itself using Python in some cases. Should I call the restart function using Python SDK for this? Or is there a better alternative?

Thanks.

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Hi @Mc1,

The supervisor has a reboot endpoint on it’s API. Maybe you can try invoking that from the container. Interacting with the balena Supervisor - Balena Documentation

Cheers,
Erik

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You can also use dbus


DBUS_SYSTEM_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/host/run/dbus/system_bus_socket \
  dbus-send \
  --system \
  --print-reply \
  --dest=org.freedesktop.systemd1 \
  /org/freedesktop/systemd1 \
  org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager.Reboot

That’s the shell version, there’s also a Python lib for interacting with dbus. Make sure to enable it in the container

io.balena.features.dbus: '1'