Shutdown button for headless systems
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 12:58 pm
Hi,
I was reading a few sections and someone was talking about shutting down the RPi sending SSH commands or using the web interface which is fine, but when your done for the night you don't want to have to connect just to power down properly.
So far just powering off has not caused any issues, but if it did one would not know until the next time it's powered on and that would be at the next show.
Could a command be added that we can add to a button on the virtual console that would cause the system to shutdown or the application to exit. You could put an optional 10 second delay and if another button is pressed it cancels it. Also a shutdown function like the start-up function would indicate it is shutting down.
I could add a final page on my console for this and assign to a button. That way I tap up pages 5 times and press it and it shuts down gracefully.
Thanks for the ear...
Jimmy
I was reading a few sections and someone was talking about shutting down the RPi sending SSH commands or using the web interface which is fine, but when your done for the night you don't want to have to connect just to power down properly.
So far just powering off has not caused any issues, but if it did one would not know until the next time it's powered on and that would be at the next show.
Could a command be added that we can add to a button on the virtual console that would cause the system to shutdown or the application to exit. You could put an optional 10 second delay and if another button is pressed it cancels it. Also a shutdown function like the start-up function would indicate it is shutting down.
I could add a final page on my console for this and assign to a button. That way I tap up pages 5 times and press it and it shuts down gracefully.
Thanks for the ear...
Jimmy