Why bother increasing the cost/complexity of the Pi when it's easy for the user to add that feature anyway?
If you need smart power control you can build one of these:
Its already there.
You can safely power it off when the only LED still on is a steady red.
-- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |
Well it's even easier to add a WiFi dongle, but that didn't stop them adding built in WiFi!
Seriously, I know how to wire a few LEDs in series with resistors, but by the time you've got it connected up it's either a piece of veroboard on the end of an inconvenient trailing wire, or something built like a fragile Christmas tree on top of a 2x3 header. Or there are solutions like but that's expensive and overkill for just adding an LED or two.
Or is there a cunning construction technique I've not thought of?
-- Cheers, John
Yes, with recent firmware on Raspbian (since about 6 months? not sure). Just before power down the green LED blinks 10 or 11 times then goes off, leaving the red one.
Op Wed, 16 Aug 2017 16:41:05 +0200 schreef A. Dumas:
Recent? I see the same. Mine is from August five years ago and has only 256 Mb memory Has I bought it two months later, I would have had a half Gb.
groet Coos
Firmware gets updated with normal software updates, once in a while. Check with "uname -a" and/or "vcgencmd version". Either will display a date.
Op Wed, 16 Aug 2017 18:37:28 +0200 schreef A. Dumas:
How can a firmware update make my memory bigger?
groet Coos
Thank you for this information.
-- Cheers, John
Why do you think anyone suggested that it would?
Op Thu, 17 Aug 2017 01:43:31 +0100 schreef Rob Morley:
A. Dumas wrote about firmware. I can't see a relation to what I wrote.
groet Coos
you were original referring to the Red led illuminating for safe shut-down
this feature would have been added as part of a firmware update.
-- Sank heaven for leetle curls.
Indeed.
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