# Reboot from app or API

**URL:** <https://forum.liquidinstruments.com/t/reboot-from-app-or-api/657>\
**Category:** New Features, Requests, and Feedback\
**Created:** [February 1, 2023, 1:00pm UTC](https://forum.liquidinstruments.com/t/reboot-from-app-or-api/657 "2023-02-01T13:00:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![yono](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@yono](https://forum.liquidinstruments.com/u/yono)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2023, 1:00pm UTC](https://forum.liquidinstruments.com/t/reboot-from-app-or-api/657/1 "2023-02-01T13:00:38Z")

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I sometimes experience crashes in Moku:Pro which make the instruments stop functioning (but still being able to communicate with the device) until a hard reboot is performed (physically turning off and on again).  
In such cases it would be very helpful to be able to trigger a reboot from the desktop/ipad app or through the API, especially since the user could be controlling the device remotely

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**Author:** ![Sam.Speece](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.liquidinstruments.com/sam.speece/32/191_2.png) [@Sam.Speece](https://forum.liquidinstruments.com/u/Sam.Speece)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2023, 5:28am UTC](https://forum.liquidinstruments.com/t/reboot-from-app-or-api/657/2 "2023-03-01T05:28:38Z")

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Hey Yonatan, thanks for submitting this feature request, I think it is a useful one to have and have let our API developers know!

I am curious what the issue is exactly where the instrument stops functioning but you are able to communicate. How do you know the instrument is not working as expected and what are those issues?