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    ON/OFF Button without using GPIO's?

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    • funkybunchF
      funkybunch @Starcade2084
      last edited by

      @Starcade2084 nice idea, but i have to use the 3.5mm jack for audio via scart or does the button works via y-adapter while 3.5 is use for audio out?!

      i looks like this, but at my version the pins on the pi2scart are way too short for connection anything.
      0_1497609657058_17494855_312890385797250_4091988365656719360_n.jpg

      When mine would looks like this... i think i have to solve at the back of the pi.

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      • simonsterS
        simonster
        last edited by simonster

        Hi @funkybunch

        Just looking at your picture: Are the pins on the Arcade Forge, pass throughs of the pins on the Pi? If so, you could still use the GPIO method.

        EDIT: Sorry, just seen your comment that the pins are shorter than this picture. Back to the drawing board then.....

        Si

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        • ExarKunIvE
          ExarKunIv @funkybunch
          last edited by

          @funkybunch

          i dont know if @Starcade2084 way will work if a y splitter, i think that someone else asked that too, dont know what came of that.

          if it dont work, i still think that soldering two wires is the way to go. all that you need to do is find some GPIOs that are open and change that in the shutdown script

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          • funkybunchF
            funkybunch
            last edited by

            0_1497621561688_Foto.JPG

            That is (was) my board. The connector wasn't close enough to the board. so i tried to set it closer. the worst idea i ever had!!! I asked Jochen, if another board got the connector closer (hopefully it will fit on the pi correctly. mine was crooked) and order a second one.

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            • ExarKunIvE
              ExarKunIv @funkybunch
              last edited by

              @funkybunch

              wow

              that is really far away

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              • funkybunchF
                funkybunch
                last edited by

                I think it could be a bad delivery/batch of boards but technical it worked perfectly until i try to solve myself 🙈

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                • ExarKunIvE
                  ExarKunIv @funkybunch
                  last edited by

                  @funkybunch

                  did the pins push through?

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                    A Former User @funkybunch
                    last edited by

                    @funkybunch said in ON/OFF Button without using GPIO's?:

                    I think it could be a bad delivery/batch of boards

                    Nah man, it's just very shoddy "craftsmanship". They should never send it to you like that. I'd ask for a refund.

                    I bought a Pi2Scart from them myself and it's fine. However the SCART cable I bought with it fell apart instantly - literally. But they refunded it without any problems.

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                    • funkybunchF
                      funkybunch
                      last edited by

                      No. I tried to remove the tin solder, but it won't work. So i gave up and tried to solve it like before. My solving skills are not the best... 😔 I think the board is broken now.
                      That is the reason i avoid solving and searching for other solutions.

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                      • funkybunchF
                        funkybunch @A Former User
                        last edited by

                        @arkive thanks. Good to hear that is not a general problem. I ask for a new one.

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