Shutdown switch with rocker for switching Volumio

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Hello,

I´am very new to Volumio. I installed today on my R-Pi and I love it. It´s small and fast and makes every think I need. A DAC will be the next big step.

But before doing this I´am looking for a clean shutdown solution without the need to ssh into the Pi or shutdown via Web-GUI. My primary goal in the future is to play music via Airplay from my Apple mobile devices.

With this thoughts I came to a vey nice solution:

Direct-plug shutdown switch with rocker from Mausberry Circuits.

This switch is able to make a shutdown with a rocker switch. To do this a small setup.sh script installs a switching script to /etc/switch.sh. For now the script is only available for RaspBMC, OpenELEC and Arch.

There is also a small modification of the script from Dylan Durdle on his Blog.

Maybe someone has skills to adapt this to Volumio? … it would be a dream!

Thanks in advance!

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I believe that if you change the line

sudo initctl stop xbmc

With the line

mpc stop

It should work.
I cannot try it 'cause I don’t have your switch, but I’m quit sure it will work fine.

Regards,

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After some weeks of waiting for the shutdown switch I had now time to test the switch with Volumio. Thank you for your hint with “stop mpc” … it works great :slight_smile:

Regards, Tom

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Would this work with the LED shut down switch too? I have one of these lying around since and would like to use it. I have one on a raspbmc working fine already.

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Yes, it will.

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I am a complete novice so this may seem like a stupid question, but how do you change those lines of code?

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You need to connect via SSH to the Pi and edit with an editor of your choice, e.g. vi or nano.