Retry the bootstrap process if it fails - this means that we remove a point of failure (the previous connectivity check barrier merely reduced the chance of hitting that failure point)

src/app.coffee

@@ -37,9 +37,13 @@ ensureConnected = (continuous = false) ->
 knex('config').select('value').where(key: 'uuid').then ([ uuid ]) ->
 	if not uuid?.value
 		console.log('New device detected. Bootstrapping..')
-		ensureConnected().then ->
+		retryingBootstrap = ->
 			utils.mixpanelTrack('Device bootstrap')
-			bootstrap()
+			bootstrap().catch (err) ->
+				utils.mixpanelTrack("Device bootstrap failed due to #{err?.message}, retrying in #{config.bootstrapRetryDelay}ms")
+				Promise.delay(config.bootstrapRetryDelay)
+				.then(retryingBootstrap)
+		retryingBootstrap()
 	else
 		uuid.value
 .then (uuid) ->

src/config.coffee

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ module.exports = config =
 	localImage: process.env.SUPERVISOR_IMAGE ? 'resin/rpi-supervisor'
 	configMountPoint: process.env.CONFIG_MOUNT_POINT ? '/mnt/mmcblk0p1/config.json'
 	ledFile: process.env.LED_FILE ? '/sys/class/leds/led0/brightness'
+	bootstrapRetryDelay: process.env.BOOTSTRAP_RETRY_DELAY_MS ? 30000
 	successMessage: 'SUPERVISOR OK'
 
 config.heartbeatEndpoint = config.apiEndpoint + '/ping'