I read with interest the uses to which other subscribers put their Raspberry Pis, especially those with a whole stable of such devices for a gamut of domestic applications.
But what happens when there is a power cut?
Do the RPis shut down cleanly? Supposing it is in the middle of a data write to the SD card?
Do they then re-start automatically without human intervention?
Yours, etc, "Confused Of Tunbridge Wells"
IME they usually survive the experience, and reboot cleanly all on their own, but occasionally you get unlucky and need to replace the SD card.
One of my long-standing wishes for Raspbian (er, Raspberry Pi OS) is a supported *reversible* switch in (e.g.) raspi_config to put the SD card into a readonly state. There are 3rd party scripts which claim to do this, but the ones I've found aren't reversible.
John, within the Pi-Star software I use there are commands:
rpi-ro rpi-rw
which do appear to reversible (i.e. you can use them more than once). I'm just a user of these commands.
David
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