Use power button to shutdown

M3NI · Published in 2016-7-30 04:02:45

Power Button on orange pi with armbian OS seems to be useless and doesn't do anything.
here is the guide to use it as shutdown button ! so when you pushed it your orange pi would shutdown.

1- first login to root user or use sudo before all commands.

su

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2- update your repos

apt-get update

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3- install acpid

aptitude install acpid

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4- make a new file for power button event in acpi app

nano /etc/acpi/events/button_power

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5- paste this codes

event=button/power
action=/sbin/shutdown -h now

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6- Press Ctrl + X and then press Y
7- Make your code executable

chmod +x /etc/acpi/shutdown.sh

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8- Restart acpi app

/etc/init.d/acpid restart

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9- Done! Now press the power button on your device to shutdown your device !
You can also edit button_power file to do anything you want when pressing the power button.
Enjoy.

nopnop2002 · Published in 2016-7-30 05:10:58

Edited by nopnop2002 at 2016-7-30 09:02

Thank you very much for your useful information.
I don't found /etc/acpi/shutdown.sh in my OPI-ONE.
Is this necessary?
chmod +x /etc/acpi/shutdown.sh

M3NI · Published in 2016-7-30 18:33:27

There is no /etc/acpi/shutdown.sh , you should make that file and paste the codes in step 5 in it, also chmod +x is necessary so it could be executable.

nopnop2002 · Published in 2016-7-30 19:54:05

M3NI replied at 2016-7-30 18:33
There is no /etc/acpi/shutdown.sh , you should make that file and paste the codes in step 5 in it, a ...

In the following which file should I paste?
/etc/acpi/events/button_power
/etc/acpi/shutdown.sh

M3NI · Published in 2016-7-31 02:56:48

Both of those lines and you should add "-h now" after shutdown.sh without this it wont work well, this command tells the shutdown.sh to put the system in halt state, now. Then after halt process got completed and partitions got unmounted system will be ready to get powered off (by pulling it out of power, or unpluging it)

The_Loko · Published in 2016-11-7 02:09:13

There is no need to create/chown the /etc/acpi/shutdown.sh file, as /etc/acpi/events/button_power calls /sbin/shutdown -h now directly

nopnop2002 · Published in 2016-11-7 21:24:06

The_Loko replied at 2016-11-7 02:09
There is no need to create/chown the /etc/acpi/shutdown.sh file, as /etc/acpi/events/button_power ca ...

I confirmed that no need to create/chown the /etc/acpi/shutdown.sh file.

bcruzligsanan · Published in 2017-4-7 11:28:24

Edited by bcruzligsanan at 2017-4-7 13:18

Sir it doesnt work for me.. I have my Orange Pi Plus 2 with Debian Jessie.. Please Help..
Do i have to load the modules for acpi?