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Follow-up to #11650. Three config paths take BLE down and leave nothing to bring it back.

Until #11650, nRF52 masked all three: NRF52Bluetooth::shutdown() failed to clear Bluefruit's restartOnDisconnect, so advertising came back on its own about a second later. With that fixed the outage is real — BLE stays down until the next PowerFSM transition, which is up to screen_on_secs (600s default for clients, 1s for routers) or the next button press.

None of these are new bugs; #11650 just stopped hiding them.

restore_preferences — ~16.7 minutes unreachable

AdminModule::reboot() takes seconds, and the call passed 1000 — arming the reset 16.7 minutes out rather than the intended ~1s (the log line reads Reboot in 1000 seconds). Because BLE is disabled for a pending reboot, the node was unreachable for that entire window, and the PowerFSM guard added in #11650 correctly declines to re-enable while rebootAtMsec is armed.

Now uses DEFAULT_REBOOT_SECONDS and disables before arming, matching the ordering in the factory-reset and nodedb-reset cases directly above it.

mesh_beacon — disabled with no reboot

mesh_beacon sets shouldReboot = false but wasn't in the list that spares a variant from the blanket disableBluetooth() at the top of handleSetModuleConfig(). statusmessage does the same thing and is in that list. Added it, and rewrote the comment to say what the list actually means now.

MQTT / Serial inside an edit transaction

Both call disableBluetooth() inside their own case, bypassing the !hasOpenEditTransaction check above them. Inside a transaction saveChanges() defers the reboot, so BLE went down with nothing to restore it — and the client can no longer send commit_edit_settings, so the transaction runs to its idle timeout.

Reachable today: the Android app wraps installProfile() in begin/commitEditSettings (RadioConfigViewModel.kt:478), so importing a device profile that carries an MQTT or serial module config hits it. Ordinary config screens don't use transactions and were unaffected.

Both inner calls are now gated on !hasOpenEditTransaction.

Testing

  • Built heltec-mesh-node-t096.
  • pio test -e native-macos -f test_module_config — 3/3 passed.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Bluetooth is now disabled before the device reboots after restoring preferences.
    • Reboot timing now uses the standard delay for more consistent behavior.
    • Bluetooth remains available during supported MQTT, Serial, and mesh beacon configuration edits.

Three places took BLE down and left nothing to bring it back. The nRF52
auto-re-advertise bug masked them by restoring advertising ~1s later; with
that fixed (#11650) the outage is real, lasting until the next PowerFSM
transition - up to screen_on_secs, 10 minutes on a default client.

- restore_preferences passed 1000 to reboot(), which takes seconds, arming
  the reset ~16.7 minutes out instead of the intended ~1s. With BLE disabled
  for a pending reboot the node was unreachable for that whole window. Use
  DEFAULT_REBOOT_SECONDS and disable before arming, matching the factory and
  nodedb reset paths.
- mesh_beacon sets shouldReboot=false but was not in the list that spares a
  variant from the blanket disable, unlike statusmessage. Add it.
- MQTT and Serial disable BLE inside their own case, bypassing the
  transaction check above them. Inside an edit transaction saveChanges()
  defers the reboot, so BLE went down with no restore - reachable today by
  importing a device profile containing either module config.

Build: heltec-mesh-node-t096. Tests: test_module_config 3/3.
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The admin module changes Bluetooth shutdown timing during preference restoration and module configuration. Preference restoration now disables Bluetooth before rebooting. Mesh beacon configuration skips the pre-switch shutdown. MQTT and Serial configuration preserve Bluetooth during open edit transactions.

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Bluetooth configuration flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Preference restore reboot ordering
src/modules/AdminModule.cpp
Preference restoration disables Bluetooth before rebooting and uses DEFAULT_REBOOT_SECONDS instead of a fixed delay.
Module configuration Bluetooth guards
src/modules/AdminModule.cpp
Mesh beacon configuration skips the pre-switch Bluetooth disable. MQTT and Serial configuration disable Bluetooth only when no edit transaction is open.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to b2c3c

The change prevents BLE from being left unavailable during deferred configuration edits, non-rebooting beacon updates, and preference restoration. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal review and checks.

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src/modules/AdminModule.cpp (1)

1236-1238: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Keep the comment within the two-line limit.

The added explanation uses three physical comment lines. Shorten it to one or two lines and keep only the non-obvious rationale.

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In `@src/modules/AdminModule.cpp` around lines 1236 - 1238, Shorten the comment
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the non-obvious rationale for excluding MQTT, Serial, statusmessage, and
mesh_beacon; remove redundant explanatory detail.

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excluding MQTT, Serial, statusmessage, and mesh_beacon; remove redundant
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