Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate the recovery of a failed data path. A determination may be made that one or more channels have become unavailable to a central device. The central device may identify an opportunity to attempt to recover the one or more unavailable channels, the opportunity being based upon a waiting period, time-of-day, device activity, or other parameter. A communication interface associated with the central device may be re-initialized so that the central device can attempt to recover the one or more unavailable channels.