Jun 16, 2012 · As a Raspberry Pi newbie, why is it necessary to find a physical switch and solder it to those pins? Do you need hardware to turn it off properly, or what happens if you just turn it …

Feb 22, 2016 · You can now safely unplug the Raspberry Pi. Failure to shut the Raspberry Pi down properly may corrupt your SD card, which would mean you would have to re-image it.

Dec 29, 2016 · There are tons of GPIO programming tutorials online that you can adapt, like this one. Rahul R Dhobi has a nice two-liner python script that will shut down a Raspberry Pi: …

Jan 29, 2013 · If I am running a Pi headless, is there a command I can use to safely shut down, or should I simply remove the power cord?

I've been using my raspberry pi for about 3 days, and on these 3 days the Pi has stopped running 2 times. It just shuts down. I'm using it as a server and it gets kind off warm when I'm using it. (...

Oct 6, 2014 · I want my raspberryPi to shut down during the night and wake up in the morning. I.e., at 10pm raspberry should shutdown or at least turn of the WiFi and the HDD. At 10am …

This should reboot the Raspberry Pi. When you shut down the Raspberry Pi, the board and USB ports will still be powered, even if the CPU is not running. If this matters to you, there is this …

Jul 9, 2013 · Obviously I'd need a UPS or battery of some kind to continue supplying power during an outage to my home. However, I'd like to have the Pi automatically shut down safely if it is …

Sep 11, 2015 · The following shuts down my Pi and powers off (HDMI out becomes disabled, but always on Power LED stays on). Note: this is on Raspbian, and I ran uname to show you my …

Jun 25, 2016 · Whenever I turn off my pi, I use sudo poweroff, which (in my understanding) is a safe way to stop all processes and shut down. Although sometimes when I'm using the Pi for …