alkjones wrote: > 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
Thanks for replying. Unfortunately I have no idea what this means which is why I'm after a tutorial or something on line that I can wade through and learn.. thanks 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 unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
