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How do I turn off my Raspberry Pi?

Should I just pull the plug? Or is it best if I exit LXDE and any other running processes first?
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How do I turn on my Raspberry Pi after shutdown?

My Raspberry Pi runs OpenELEC. The XBMC has a Power-button in the left-bottom corner where I can shutdown the Raspberry Pi. That works fine, but I can't figure out how to turn it on again after the ...
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Raspberry Pi 4 B GPIO boot and shutdown button(s)

I've been doing some research on power buttons for the Raspberry Pi, but I'm having quite a hard time finding information. Right now, I have button working on GPIO5, and when I connect it to the ...
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Can you make an on/off power button with a single non-i2c GPIO pin?

As far as I can tell, these are the options for power buttons with little to no extra hardware: Option 1: add a momentary switch to the P6 header (reset) breakout. Can't turn off, only reset, or turn ...
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How to know if Raspberry is running

I'd like to implement an electronic circuit to be able to restart my raspberry Pi when it has been shutdown (without plugging in and out the USB charger, which will obviously remain plugged all the ...
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Is halted a viable state for a battery powered pi zero long-term?

I'm building a battery powered device with a pi zero. The battery is a 3.7v LiPo w/ 2000mAh. I want to be able to safely shutdown and restart the pi using a single switch or button. (preferably ...
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Disable boot on plug in power cable

I'm owning a Rasperry Pi3 I want to disable automatic boot when plug in power cable. I don't want to use a simple mechanic switch because I want passive power still avaible for the board for various ...
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Wake raspberry pi NAS on LAN

I build myself a NAS using my raspberry pi model b with an external power hub with 2 connected hdd's. Instead of leaving everything always running, I want it to only run while it has to. So I need ...
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Car battery life with raspberry pi 3 model B

=> Raspberry pi 3 model B powered with car battery I have two questions : 1- How can I calculate car battery life ? 2- Is their negative impact for the start-up of the vehicle when I use his ...
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Send power on/off/cycle command from one Pi 4 to another Pi 4 using GPIO (each having their own power supply)

I would like to control power of a Raspberry Pi 4 using another Raspberry Pi 4. Each Raspberry Pi is powered by its own official Raspberry power supply, to make sure each one gets enough power. It ...
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Prevent Pi Zero W from turning on after receiving power

My Pi Zero is powered by a small ATX PC power supply that is also powering a few other components: projector, audio amplifier. I'm using the gpio-shutdown device tree overlay to add a power button on ...
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How to examine the booting status of a Pi0 without USB/HDMI connection

I connected several devices to my raspberry pi Zero. These devices are breakout boards for sensor and some ICs. Sometimes I suspect that one of the boards has short circuit. For example, when I modify ...
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