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    ON/OFF Button without using GPIO's?

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    • ExarKunIvE
      ExarKunIv @funkybunch
      last edited by

      @funkybunch

      that's the only thing i can think of

      the pins are not that close together so fear of jumping anything should not be there

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      • Starcade2084S
        Starcade2084
        last edited by

        You could try using a Borkin Button, which uses the 3.5mm audio jack and a small amount of soldering. ETAPrime did a video on it a while back:

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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
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                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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