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8. By hand only: USB, language, region and network identity

  • Date: 2026-10 (first kit); changed 2026-11-02 and 2026-11-11
  • Status: accepted
  • Rule: USB, Language, NTSC/PAL, Area/Date and network identity are changed by the owner's hand, never remotely; Auto Power OFF Temp. remotely only when a run names it.

Context

These settings can take the camera off the link or change what every other setting means (NTSC/PAL re-indexes frame rates).

Decision

USB settings, Language, NTSC/PAL, Area/Date and network identity are changed by the owner, with the closed watcher downloading after each. No --allow opens one of them, whatever the owner said: the kit refuses such a label before anything connects and the row however a run named it (kit/camkit/safety.py, allow_refused and never_lifted). Auto Power OFF Temp. may be changed remotely (the owner: "it causes no issues when in stills"); it stays on the kit's by-hand list, so a run opens it only when it names the row with --allow.

Before 2026-11-02 Auto Power OFF Temp. was changed by hand only, as the rest; before 0.2.0 (2026-11-11) a run's --allow could name one of the others.

Consequences

Proofs of these rows come from the owner's hand changes. For someone else's camera the playbook's rule 3 keeps Auto Power OFF Temp. by hand too, until its owner allows it.