Multi Switch Shutdown Script!

quicksilver

@cyperghost Since you said it should work it made me think of what I might have messed up. Looks like I forgot to give proper permissions to the multi_switch.sh file. Metadata is now saving properly. Thanks for your assistance!

cyperghost

I see no reason for a downvote here.
Maybe the the one who downvoted @quicksilver can explain?

quicksilver

@cyperghost It's cool, it could have been accidental. And if not, I'm not one who cares much about fake internet points. I'm just happy I got it working. I now have your script setup on 3 different style cases!

AndersHP

I upvoted the post, so now it's back to 0 ;-)

Rion

@cyperghost Is it possible to make this work with the Argon One case?

quicksilver

@Rion scroll up a few posts ;)

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/17415/multi-switch-shutdown-script/207

BiZzAr721

Hello @cyperghost! Hope all has been well, or as well as it can be with this COVID-19 paranoia. I decided to make a mini arcade using an AdaFruit Arcade Bonnet and a Raspberry Pi 3 B+. I am using a generic momentary pushbutton. I can not get the shutdown script AND the arcade bonnet controls to work at the same time. It seems having raspi-gpio installed blocks the controller inputs (which are mapped to keyboard buttons). Key presses work on a keyboard but not while passing through the arcade bonnet.

The arcade bonnet has breakouts to gpio pins. I tried GPIO 3, which is used by the arcade hat, but I also tried other GPIO pins that are not used by the hat. Here is a link to info and pictures of the board.

During install there is an option to install a gpio-halt utility. I've tried both with and without to no avail. I uploaded the contents of the arcadebonnet.pyand rc.local files. Here is the Adafruit-GPIO-Halt git.
arcadebonnet.py
rc.local

I am wondering if it could be possible to redirect gpio-halt to your shutdown script. I just flashed an SD card with a clean retropie image, so I can start again with a new install.
Thanks, and stay well.

cyperghost

@BiZzAr721 Yes ...
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-GPIO-Halt/blob/master/gpio-halt.c#L261
change here the call to script and then compile.

All is well, thank you :)

BiZzAr721

I never did get to learn how to compile like I wanted to. Is there something in a gpio-halt script that can manually edit after it is installed? I'm not even fully understanding how to change the call to script before compiling. Sorry for being a bother.

cyperghost

@BiZzAr721 You just change the line

(void)system("shutdown -h now");

to annother call. I would use annother script.

(void)system("/home/pi/RetroPie/shutdown.sh");

Then you create annother script /home/pi/RetroPie/shutdown.sh and make it executable with chmod +x /home/pi/RetroPie/shutdown.sh. Then you can nest any command as you like inside this. After this code change you compile as Adafruit descripes. I'm sure you do not need to stick to this specific C-program. The same can be achived in python.

Imho you can use multi_switch.sh --generic powerbtn=21 call to achive same funtion. But I can't test this. Please use sudo apt raspi-gpio before.

BiZzAr721

I created a fork of Adafruit-GPIO-Halt. I made the change to (void)system("/home/pi/RetroPie/shutdown.sh");

I'm confident I can compile it from there. Should I put a call to multi_switch.sh --generic powerbtn=21 in the script or should I call to it directly before compiling?
There is a call in rc.local to /usr/local/bin/gpio-halt 6 & (6 being the gpio pin used, which can be changed)
If I set it to gpio 2 SDA or gpio 3 SCL, arcade controls will not work. Maybe that explains why raspi-gpio causes loss of controls. (Is it possible to get raspi-gpio to not monitor those pins?)

cyperghost

@BiZzAr721 I think it works with multi_switch.sh --generic powerbtn=21 and you do not need the Adafruit-GPIO-Halt.

If you compile the source code now with your changes you can add ANY command to the script you've created. Then you can just add path/to/multi_switch.sh --es-poweroff

BiZzAr721

@cyperghost Looking forward to giving it a try this evening. I'll edit this post with the results.

EDIT:
I recompiled GPIO-Halt, and pointed the script to your script. It worked great!
@cyperghost I appreciate all I have learned from you since the OpenBOR days lol What you do here for the community is a beacon of your character. Not only are you always willing to help, but you also take the time to explain and help others improve their skills.

It may not be much, but I thought it to be rewarding to fork the Adafruit Gpio-halt git, and compile it (and have it work!).

Thanks!

cyperghost

@BiZzAr721 Thanks you for your kindly words but I also asked question regarding coding in the beginning and @meleu helped me a lot, too.

BiZzAr721

@cyperghost Is always great to have a community of likeminded people who share a common interest, be it skydiving, retro gaming, or whatever. You end up with a diverse group of people with various skills all sharing ideas & talents, which usually transcends beyond political or religious differences.

mth75

@janderclander14 said in Multi Switch Shutdown Script!:

ne short press, quits the current emulator or restarts emulationstation. One long press (3 sec) restarts the system.

I attach here the code just in case someone finds it useful (it assumes multi_switch.sh is in /home/pi). You may add this as a python call to /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh

This was next on my list :-) ...

y-ello

Does it work with Raspberry Pi 4?

quicksilver

@y-ello yes it does, I'm using it with my pi4 in the argon one case.

Initial_G

@quicksilver said in Multi Switch Shutdown Script!:

@y-ello yes it does, I'm using it with my pi4 in the argon one case.

Hi @quicksilver, I was looking to set this up when my Argon one arrives.

I wanted to ask, could you share how you have your setup? from your above comment
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/17415/multi-switch-shutdown-script/207

did you just install the power button/fan script from Argon one?
& then just modify the argononed.py to something like:
os.system("reboot") -> os.system("bash /path/to/multi_switch/multi_switch.sh --es-reboot")
os.system("shutdown now -h") -> os.system("bash /path/to/multi_switch/multi_switch.sh --es-poweroff")
is anything else needed?

Thx!

quicksilver

@Initial_G that's exactly what I did. Just make sure the multi switch script has the proper permissions as well.

On a side note (not related to the shutdown script) I also used the fan speed utility script to adjust when the argon one case fan turned on. I found it turned on at too low of a temp and I set it so that it wouldn't turn on unless it got to 65c. I prefer passive cooling as much as possible and only want fan as a last resort. Even with my pi overclocked the fan almost never needs to come on.