I noticed my Sixfab firmware needed updating today so I clicked the button to do that. It updated successfully.
Doing this reminded me that I had not updated the OS on the Raspberry Pi in a while. I had some unused data left at the end of the month, so I went to the Remote Terminal and typed:
Sudo apt update
Sudo apt upgrade
These went fine and everything installed properly. Next, I rebooted.
Sudo reboot
Of course the terminal lost connection as expected. However, the device remains offline.
Will it eventually connect on its own? Do I have to physically visit the device to perform a hard reset?
There didn’t appear to be errors on reboot, just that the CORE didn’t reconnect. After unplugging the power and booting up from scratch, it worked normally.
I can do an experiment this week (rebooting the pi from the command line) to see if this behavior repeats itself or is just a one-off glitch. I want to be right there to unplug the power if I need to, so it could be a couple of days before I can get to it.
I had a moment to check on the Raspberry Pi today. I used the terminal to execute a sudo reboot now command. The modem was offline for a short time but came right back online. Seems to be working fine now and handled the reboot event as expected.