Raspberry Pi Power Switch Button - Safe Shutdown / Start Up

[@PierreVanGucht]

As usual, a very informative video! I'm really curious to see the full integration into the PrinterBox/PrusaBox! Thank you and keep going ;-) !

[@colinhill]

Thanks. I plan to add the modular front imminently.

[@neoYAKER]

I just wanted to say thanks for the great how to! I was using this on my octoprint, and recently switched to Prusa Link/Connect. The switch and script still work great!!!! Thank you Colin!

[@Sa3dawisurf]

Great video and explanation! question, which rasp OS are you using to boot straight to your application? thank you!

[@colinhill]

Octoprint

[@whitneydesignlabs8738]

Awesome!! Thanks so much for your video and the link to the howchoo write up. I just wired and installed on my Pi4 which is in vehicular use. Now, so much easier to shut down gracefully, with a physical button, instead of the GUI (or worse, turning off ignition key and hard-crashing the pi). I was prepared to copy and paste the code, run it at boot up etc etc. But the script did all the heavy lifting. Cheers!!!

[@iljacoveliers5834]

Thanks for the video !! What happens if you disconnect it from the power and then reconnect it ? Does the Pi start up, or do you have to push the button first ? Or does it only work when it's connected to power all the the time ?

[@colinhill]

It you pull the power then reconnect then the pi starts up. The button is a momentary push switch not an on off switch. The action of the switch runs a script to put the pi into a standby state.

[@iljacoveliers5834]

@@colinhill ok. Thanks for the info.

[@robyrey67]

Thanks for this tutorial. Can I ask you how did you power the screen?

[@colinhill]

It's a DSI screen that connects via thin ribbon cable to one of the Pi ribbon cable outputs.

[@robyrey67]

Thank you @@colinhill

[@maksym3d]

I see you are using the TX GPIO pin to power LED as described in Howchoo's manual. This unfortunately won't work if you connect Einsy to the Raspberry through the GPIO port. Instead, you can add this line to the end of /boot/config.txt to power the LED with an arbitrary GPIO pin (e.g. GPIO 24): dtoverlay=gpio-led,gpio=24,trigger=default-on,label=statusled0

[@colinhill]

Thanks for that. Currently having issues with the newer shutdown option which doesnt play well when also using Octodash kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6u5fop4brGXgdE

[@KaoticFdr1]

Great video! Does this work with RockPi boards running armbian via docker? (I'm a complete Linux noob that was only able to install octoprint by following Print'n'Play's OrangePi guide) I'd like to do this and the PSU Relay plugin, but the plugin for the PSU doesn't work either. Any chance you could make a video on making the plugin work too?

[@stefanmerk5750]

hi, thanks for showing. I have a question, can you do this with a touch (capacitive) button? By touching the button for 3 seconds? that would work and if so, how?

[@colinhill]

Stefan, i have no idea :)

[@leglessinoz]

If all the touch switch does is short 2 connections then yes it'll work fine.

[@rubensevillano5707]

Hi Colin, can you share or update the prusabox files? Modular panel for waveshare 5" with led hole and switch for start/stop Pi. And can you share the switch that you used? Thanks a lot!

[@colinhill]

Hi. The STL should be on the main modular front video, in description. www.thingiverse.com/thing:4942168 I'm not part of PrinterBox, so cannot add files to their website. I just post my mods on Thingiverse. Which country are you in? Someone asked me about switches in one of the recent video comments and I provided a link to Amazon.de or here is my Amazon UK link amzn.to/2WWy5bO.

[@anubis_3d]

Hi Colin, I'm from Spain, I asked you about red switch to start/stop Raspberry Pi, thanks for answer me and for your work.

[@colinhill]

@@anubis_3d hi, switch is Momentary Push Button Switches SPST Normally Open Contacts, with 10mm hole required. I got it from eBay.

[@hugorobson4233]

Great video! I have pin6 occuppied with fans... is there any other position where I can connect the button?

[@colinhill]

Unfortunately i'm unsure, as i followed the video from howchoo. Are you able to use any of the other power pins (5v or 3.3v)

[@alwins1993]

Wich display did you buy?

[@colinhill]

Waveshare 5". I will add a link in the modular front video when I fit everything together

[@lycan6014]

thank you

[@alejandrosamudio7113]

It works if I want to put an arcade button for the power on ? ./pi-power-button/script/install