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I'm building a kiosk app for a raspberry pi, and the final intention is that it will sit in a pelicase with all the external hardware, with one power cord in. My program has a quit button which safely shuts down the pi by running sudo halt, but it would make it easier if the pi could automatically shutdown when it detects that it has been unplugged. Could this be done if I had a capacitor on the power rails and when the power was disconnected the pi could measure the power drop and shutdown safely if it detected a loss of power? Thanks.
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I'm building a kiosk app for a raspberry pi, and the final intention is that it will sit in a pelicase with all the external hardware, with one power cord in. My program has a quit button which safely shuts down the pi by running sudo halt, but it would make it easier if the pi could automatically shutdown when it detects that it has been unplugged. Could this be done if I had a capacitor on the power rails and when the power was disconnected the pi could measure the power drop and shutdown safely if it detected a loss of power? Thanks.
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I'm building a kiosk app for a raspberry pi, and the final intention is that it will sit in a pelicase with all the external hardware, with one power cord in. My program has a quit button which safely shuts down the pi by running sudo halt, but it would make it easier if the pi could automatically shutdown when it detects that it has been unplugged. Could this be done if I had a capacitor on the power rails and when the power was disconnected the pi could measure the power drop and shutdown safely if it detected a loss of power? Thanks.
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I'm building a kiosk app for a raspberry pi, and the final intention is that it will sit in a pelicase with all the external hardware, with one power cord in. My program has a quit button which safely shuts down the pi by running sudo halt, but it would make it easier if the pi could automatically shutdown when it detects that it has been unplugged. Could this be done if I had a capacitor on the power rails and when the power was disconnected the pi could measure the power drop and shutdown safely if it detected a loss of power? Thanks.
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What you're asking for is impossible. There's no battery backup on the RPi without additional hardware.
Pulling the power may be OK 9 times out of ten, but every time you pull the power you risk corruption of your SDCard.
Even if you move to a HDD or SSD for the root filesystem you risk corruption with a sudden power loss.
How hard is it to use sudo poweroff then wait ten seconds for that to complete? You know it's complete when the activity LED blinks ten times.
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To achieve this thing you need two things.
- First, the power failure detection circuit.
- A power backup system that can give power back up to shut down the raspberry pi.
There are many ways to implement the power detection circuit. I am giving an example of this
simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
in this circuit, the R1 and R2 you have to chose such that rpi gpio will get 3.3V, 3mA current. When power presents the gpio get a high signal failure will occur the get low signal.
For power back up you need a supercapacitor circuitry that can store 5V*2.5mA * 60sec energy minimum such that it can provide power to RPI when it performs shut down the operation.
answered 6 hours ago
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No computer system which writes to internal storage can just be powered off without risk of loss. The Pi is no different in this respect.
Conventional computers have a managed shutdown and/or battery backup.
It is not difficult to provide the same to a Pi (the additional circuitry is likely to cost more than the Pi) and there are many articles on this, and a number of commercial products.
NOTE a capacitor is unlikely to provide sufficient voltage for long enough.
The other option is to use a read only filesystem, and store working data in volatile storage (RAM) - it depends on your application if this is applicable.
answered 1 hour ago
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Re: your note about storing data in RAM; I have use AUFS (RAM fs + read only ext4 mount) to successfully implement a Linux driven embedded project that can handle hard power events. Something similar to what is mentioned here: linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/…
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What you're asking for is impossible. There's no battery backup on the RPi without additional hardware.
Pulling the power may be OK 9 times out of ten, but every time you pull the power you risk corruption of your SDCard.
Even if you move to a HDD or SSD for the root filesystem you risk corruption with a sudden power loss.
How hard is it to use sudo poweroff then wait ten seconds for that to complete? You know it's complete when the activity LED blinks ten times.
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What you're asking for is impossible. There's no battery backup on the RPi without additional hardware.
Pulling the power may be OK 9 times out of ten, but every time you pull the power you risk corruption of your SDCard.
Even if you move to a HDD or SSD for the root filesystem you risk corruption with a sudden power loss.
How hard is it to use sudo poweroff then wait ten seconds for that to complete? You know it's complete when the activity LED blinks ten times.
answered 7 hours ago
DougieDougie
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What you're asking for is impossible. There's no battery backup on the RPi without additional hardware.
Pulling the power may be OK 9 times out of ten, but every time you pull the power you risk corruption of your SDCard.
Even if you move to a HDD or SSD for the root filesystem you risk corruption with a sudden power loss.
How hard is it to use sudo poweroff then wait ten seconds for that to complete? You know it's complete when the activity LED blinks ten times.
answered 7 hours ago
DougieDougie
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What you're asking for is impossible. There's no battery backup on the RPi without additional hardware.
Pulling the power may be OK 9 times out of ten, but every time you pull the power you risk corruption of your SDCard.
Even if you move to a HDD or SSD for the root filesystem you risk corruption with a sudden power loss.
How hard is it to use sudo poweroff then wait ten seconds for that to complete? You know it's complete when the activity LED blinks ten times.
answered 7 hours ago
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To achieve this thing you need two things.
- First, the power failure detection circuit.
- A power backup system that can give power back up to shut down the raspberry pi.
There are many ways to implement the power detection circuit. I am giving an example of this
simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
in this circuit, the R1 and R2 you have to chose such that rpi gpio will get 3.3V, 3mA current. When power presents the gpio get a high signal failure will occur the get low signal.
For power back up you need a supercapacitor circuitry that can store 5V*2.5mA * 60sec energy minimum such that it can provide power to RPI when it performs shut down the operation.
answered 6 hours ago
PrayuktibidPrayuktibid
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To achieve this thing you need two things.
- First, the power failure detection circuit.
- A power backup system that can give power back up to shut down the raspberry pi.
There are many ways to implement the power detection circuit. I am giving an example of this
simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
in this circuit, the R1 and R2 you have to chose such that rpi gpio will get 3.3V, 3mA current. When power presents the gpio get a high signal failure will occur the get low signal.
For power back up you need a supercapacitor circuitry that can store 5V*2.5mA * 60sec energy minimum such that it can provide power to RPI when it performs shut down the operation.
answered 6 hours ago
PrayuktibidPrayuktibid
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To achieve this thing you need two things.
- First, the power failure detection circuit.
- A power backup system that can give power back up to shut down the raspberry pi.
There are many ways to implement the power detection circuit. I am giving an example of this
simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
in this circuit, the R1 and R2 you have to chose such that rpi gpio will get 3.3V, 3mA current. When power presents the gpio get a high signal failure will occur the get low signal.
For power back up you need a supercapacitor circuitry that can store 5V*2.5mA * 60sec energy minimum such that it can provide power to RPI when it performs shut down the operation.
answered 6 hours ago
PrayuktibidPrayuktibid
144 bronze badges
To achieve this thing you need two things.
- First, the power failure detection circuit.
- A power backup system that can give power back up to shut down the raspberry pi.
There are many ways to implement the power detection circuit. I am giving an example of this
simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
in this circuit, the R1 and R2 you have to chose such that rpi gpio will get 3.3V, 3mA current. When power presents the gpio get a high signal failure will occur the get low signal.
For power back up you need a supercapacitor circuitry that can store 5V*2.5mA * 60sec energy minimum such that it can provide power to RPI when it performs shut down the operation.
answered 6 hours ago
PrayuktibidPrayuktibid
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answered 6 hours ago
PrayuktibidPrayuktibid
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No computer system which writes to internal storage can just be powered off without risk of loss. The Pi is no different in this respect.
Conventional computers have a managed shutdown and/or battery backup.
It is not difficult to provide the same to a Pi (the additional circuitry is likely to cost more than the Pi) and there are many articles on this, and a number of commercial products.
NOTE a capacitor is unlikely to provide sufficient voltage for long enough.
The other option is to use a read only filesystem, and store working data in volatile storage (RAM) - it depends on your application if this is applicable.
answered 1 hour ago
MilliwaysMilliways
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Re: your note about storing data in RAM; I have use AUFS (RAM fs + read only ext4 mount) to successfully implement a Linux driven embedded project that can handle hard power events. Something similar to what is mentioned here: linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/…
– sbell
2 mins ago
add a comment |
No computer system which writes to internal storage can just be powered off without risk of loss. The Pi is no different in this respect.
Conventional computers have a managed shutdown and/or battery backup.
It is not difficult to provide the same to a Pi (the additional circuitry is likely to cost more than the Pi) and there are many articles on this, and a number of commercial products.
NOTE a capacitor is unlikely to provide sufficient voltage for long enough.
The other option is to use a read only filesystem, and store working data in volatile storage (RAM) - it depends on your application if this is applicable.
answered 1 hour ago
MilliwaysMilliways
33.3k14 gold badges59 silver badges126 bronze badges
Re: your note about storing data in RAM; I have use AUFS (RAM fs + read only ext4 mount) to successfully implement a Linux driven embedded project that can handle hard power events. Something similar to what is mentioned here: linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/…
– sbell
2 mins ago
add a comment |
No computer system which writes to internal storage can just be powered off without risk of loss. The Pi is no different in this respect.
Conventional computers have a managed shutdown and/or battery backup.
It is not difficult to provide the same to a Pi (the additional circuitry is likely to cost more than the Pi) and there are many articles on this, and a number of commercial products.
NOTE a capacitor is unlikely to provide sufficient voltage for long enough.
The other option is to use a read only filesystem, and store working data in volatile storage (RAM) - it depends on your application if this is applicable.
answered 1 hour ago
MilliwaysMilliways
33.3k14 gold badges59 silver badges126 bronze badges
No computer system which writes to internal storage can just be powered off without risk of loss. The Pi is no different in this respect.
Conventional computers have a managed shutdown and/or battery backup.
It is not difficult to provide the same to a Pi (the additional circuitry is likely to cost more than the Pi) and there are many articles on this, and a number of commercial products.
NOTE a capacitor is unlikely to provide sufficient voltage for long enough.
The other option is to use a read only filesystem, and store working data in volatile storage (RAM) - it depends on your application if this is applicable.
answered 1 hour ago
MilliwaysMilliways
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answered 1 hour ago
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Re: your note about storing data in RAM; I have use AUFS (RAM fs + read only ext4 mount) to successfully implement a Linux driven embedded project that can handle hard power events. Something similar to what is mentioned here: linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/…
– sbell
2 mins ago
add a comment |
Re: your note about storing data in RAM; I have use AUFS (RAM fs + read only ext4 mount) to successfully implement a Linux driven embedded project that can handle hard power events. Something similar to what is mentioned here: linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/…
– sbell
2 mins ago
Re: your note about storing data in RAM; I have use AUFS (RAM fs + read only ext4 mount) to successfully implement a Linux driven embedded project that can handle hard power events. Something similar to what is mentioned here: linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/…
– sbell
2 mins ago
Re: your note about storing data in RAM; I have use AUFS (RAM fs + read only ext4 mount) to successfully implement a Linux driven embedded project that can handle hard power events. Something similar to what is mentioned here: linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/…
– sbell
2 mins ago
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