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Title: Single button power on/off for Raspberry Pi Bartop
Post by: Turambar on November 13, 2014, 07:12:18 pm

I'm building a pi based bartop, and I want to have an arcade button power on everything (marquee, monitor, speakers, and pi). I accomplish this on my PC driven arcade cab with a smart strip with the PC in the control socket.

I'm using a mausberry circuit to turn the pi on and off (http://bit.ly/1B9lMpW (http://bit.ly/1B9lMpW)). Has anyone used one with a smart strip?  Are there any other one button solutions for cutting everything on?

**Pardon me if this has been asked before.  I couldn't find it via search.**

Title: Re: Single button power on/off for Raspberry Pi Bartop
Post by: ark_ader on November 14, 2014, 06:09:27 am

Thanks for sharing that link.  :cheers:

Title: Re: Single button power on/off for Raspberry Pi Bartop
Post by: nitrogen_widget on November 14, 2014, 07:12:33 am

I was going to use either the standard power adaptor and a power strip or a PC power supply to power everything and just run the shutdown command via script from the front end.
The front end is advmenu and I was going to setup the shutdown/reboot scripts as a second emulator.

Title: Re: Single button power on/off for Raspberry Pi Bartop
Post by: keilmillerjr on November 14, 2014, 07:59:41 am

I've been thinking about using a raspberry pi for a retro console unit and found this for turning it on and off. It's sold as a diy solder kit, so I assume the supplies buttons can be replaced by wires leading to any momentary switch.

https://www.pi-supply.com/product/pi-supply-raspberry-pi-power-switch/ (https://www.pi-supply.com/product/pi-supply-raspberry-pi-power-switch/)

And for your project, maybe you can use one of these Eco-strips? I used one for my mame pc. My motherboard constantly feeds power through usb and is not changeable through bios, so I just used a usb to molex adaptor and connected it to my power supply that way.

http://www.m.ecostrip.com (http://www.m.ecostrip.com)

You could possibly use these two units together with the raspberry pi to have everything turn on and off with a button press, albeit it might be two seperate buttons for the process.