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No special hardware set-up other than a breadboard, LED, and monetary button. Have the ControlBlock directly connected to the Pi. Have a button (monetary button for a breadboard) and LED (standard 5v red LED) connected to a breadboard for initial setup and troubleshooting. I have not hooked up the arcade buttons to the unit yet. Would that somehow effect it?

Next I'm going to try it without the button and just ground out the wires to see if the button is somehow effecting it. If you have any other suggestions please let me know. I won't be able to try it for a couple more weeks but will report back here how it went.

@petrockblog Thank you for this. I wasn't sure and I couldn't find any direct information on it.

@Drobec Good to hear that the shutdown works as expected when you use only a cable. Maybe the rebounding on the PowerBlock is not fitting the characteristics of the button. If possible, you could try and improve the switching the behaviour of your button with a capacitor in parallel to the switch cable for a simple low-pass.

@sstallion Hi! Yes, the PowerBlock does some software debouncing. Please contact me at contact (at) petrockblock.com and I can send you a firmer with the momentary button support disabled. I have this, in fact, already prepared.

Thanks @petrockblog
Just wanted to be sure before roasting the brand new hardware. 😁

Thanks, I thought that might be the case. Bit of a shame cos I really like the hifiberry dac so don't want to lose that. Looks like hifieberry were doing something with this to, but it looks like they've not release their power controller. https://www.hifiberry.com/shop/boards/power-controller/

@bpugh Ah, yes. I misread your previous post and had the 5V IN pins in mind. I bet higher gauge wires from 5V OUT to the Raspberry 5V IN and GND will do the trick.

Thanks for your help @ByteThis . I tried for about 3 hours yesterday and simply couldn't get it to work. I have decided to abandon the Powerblock and build my own from scratch. thanks agin for you help. regards Cliff

@StuMcBill Glad to hear!

I finally got the driver to enable through the retropie config screen without shutting the whole thing down. I had to update all drivers, packages and everything on the pi through the retropie config screen and then I was able to enable the ControlBlock driver. When I edited the controlblock config file it was blank so I added all the code that is usually there and configured it to work with arcade and a power button. I restarted everything and it's like it's not even there. jtest doesn't even pull up, ControlBlock isn't on services running. I'm at a loss. I've been messing with this for a week now and it doesn't work like it should.

Anyone willing to take a look at my boot and see if they can see what I'm missing?

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ec2vitua6pg23rk/AACaonRDQT7RdW_Ed6iUC7bSa?dl=0

Glad to hear that!

@petrockblog Hello! Thank you for the fast answer. Unfortunately I've already tested those scenarios and the hat is not working. I don't have an order number because I bought the board from another seller. I just wanted to know if I'm doing something wrong or not. I'll contact them about this.

Thank you again!

Hi,

thanks for your answer, which I see now.
Last weekend I've had install the old version of the driver, because I think I own the first version and there it works.
So it was my failure :)

Regards, Marco

@petrockblog and @kmk many thanks for the replies.

Sounds like it's a possible solution for me for then.

Many thanks.

@petrockblog I would like to add this as a feature request as well. Raspberry Pi I use is in another room upstairs and I would like to be able to work on it remotely and reboot when necessary instead of having to go up and turn it back on each time. Once configurations on it are settled, it probably won't be as much of a trouble, but powerblock & controlblock is not just a good Retropie addition but also fixes an oversight on part of Pi foundation not including power control capability. Instead of a mostly useless second HDMI output they should have added ability to control power instead.