Greg Erskine wrote: > Thanks Alastair, > > First off the scripts are basic scripts that will run on piCorePlayer > with little or no modification. Most of the scripts I looked at are just > shell scripts, although wiringPi was used in one, it is unnecessary. > > I don't really understand why you need the extra hardware. All you need > is a pushbutton, a led and a few resistors. > > Please state exactly what you want to achieve, I might of missed the > point. :confused: > > regards > Greg
Greg / Steen / Pascal Thanks for responding. I think the problem here, and perhaps why I'm eliciting some confusion in your guys, is that I don't actually know what I'm doing. As I said, I looked around for a decent power switch and found the ATXRASPI. I've bought one, and an LED button too and I'm awaiting delivery. I had assumed that this was the best way to shut down the RPI / PICO player - this is clearly incorrect. A clean shutdown is a good way to shutdown a PI that DOESNT run this flavour of linux. As you say, with the Pico player, you can just yank the power (which is essentially what I've been doing with my remote power switches). OK, so now that I've got it straight in my head, and already have an LED button in bound (two - silver and black..I couldn't make up my mind on which colour aluminium box to use..) I'll go down the route of a switch and some resistors just to kill the power to the Pi. however....please refer to my first comment. Though is clearly outside the scope of this forum, and your software, could you point me in the direction on some instructions on how to do that? google yields gabillions of results for configuring a SAFE shutdown switch, but i cant find anything on wiring up something that will just kill the power (especially using an LED power button..) CHeers Alastair ------------------------------------------------------------------------ alkjones's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63912 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97803 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
