Power Off / Reset Buttons - DietPi

[casmiguefl]

Hi! 
My pine arrived a couple days ago. I'm loving this little beast.

I have a couple trigger buttons laying around and I'd like to use one for the power off and other for the reset but I have no idea if the system is actively listening to the circuit of both these buttons.
I tried them on and nothing. Any tips?

Currently running DietPi as the OS.

Thanks!

[xalius]

Reset is just a hardwired hardware reset, the power button is wired to the PMIC (Power Management IC) and has the usual power-on, soft-off and hard-off function depending on how long you press it. The PMIC sends an interrupt to the A64 when the Power button is pressed and you can read/write registers on the PMIC to configure the behavior a bit. In linux the powerbutton is also a event device (think /dev/input/eventXXX) and you can watch for those events with a tool like evtest ... on my Ubuntu images with Mate Desktop the power button brings up the normal Reboot/Shutdown menu, so I guess they already wired up some udev rules for that...

For reference see:

http://files.pine64.org/doc/Pine%20A64%2...elease.pdf

http://files.pine64.org/doc/datasheet/pi...t_V1.0.pdf

[casmiguefl]

Reset is just a hardwired hardware reset, the power button is wired to the PMIC (Power Management IC) and has the usual power-on, soft-off and hard-off function depending on how long you press it. The PMIC sends an interrupt to the A64 when the Power button is pressed and you can read/write registers on the PMIC to configure the behavior a bit. In linux the powerbutton is also a event device (think /dev/input/eventXXX) and you can watch for those events with a tool like evtest ... on my Ubuntu images with Mate Desktop the power button brings up the normal Reboot/Shutdown menu, so I guess they already wired up some udev rules for that...

For reference see:

http://files.pine64.org/doc/Pine%20A64%2...elease.pdf

http://files.pine64.org/doc/datasheet/pi...t_V1.0.pdf

Thank you very much for the clarification, I'll give that a look and luckily make it able to shutdown. Right now either of them does nothing at all! 

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It is indeed in the /dev/input/event1.
When the button is pressed, weird characters are written to it.

Any idea on how I can make it so when the button is pressed "init 0" command is executed? Total noob to udev rules

[pfeerick]

Reset is just a hardwired hardware reset, the power button is wired to the PMIC (Power Management IC) and has the usual power-on, soft-off and hard-off function depending on how long you press it. The PMIC sends an interrupt to the A64 when the Power button is pressed and you can read/write registers on the PMIC to configure the behavior a bit. In linux the powerbutton is also a event device (think /dev/input/eventXXX) and you can watch for those events with a tool like evtest ... on my Ubuntu images with Mate Desktop the power button brings up the normal Reboot/Shutdown menu, so I guess they already wired up some udev rules for that...

For reference see:

http://files.pine64.org/doc/Pine%20A64%2...elease.pdf

http://files.pine64.org/doc/datasheet/pi...t_V1.0.pdf

Thank you very much for the clarification, I'll give that a look and luckily make it able to shutdown. Right now either of them does nothing at all! 

---

It is indeed in the /dev/input/event1.
When the button is pressed, weird characters are written to it.

Any idea on how I can make it so when the button is pressed "init 0" command is executed? Total noob to udev rules

This most might be of use. Be warned... my OS of choice is Debian, if that makes an difference.

[casmiguefl]

Reset is just a hardwired hardware reset, the power button is wired to the PMIC (Power Management IC) and has the usual power-on, soft-off and hard-off function depending on how long you press it. The PMIC sends an interrupt to the A64 when the Power button is pressed and you can read/write registers on the PMIC to configure the behavior a bit. In linux the powerbutton is also a event device (think /dev/input/eventXXX) and you can watch for those events with a tool like evtest ... on my Ubuntu images with Mate Desktop the power button brings up the normal Reboot/Shutdown menu, so I guess they already wired up some udev rules for that...

For reference see:

http://files.pine64.org/doc/Pine%20A64%2...elease.pdf

http://files.pine64.org/doc/datasheet/pi...t_V1.0.pdf

Thank you very much for the clarification, I'll give that a look and luckily make it able to shutdown. Right now either of them does nothing at all! 

---

It is indeed in the /dev/input/event1.
When the button is pressed, weird characters are written to it.

Any idea on how I can make it so when the button is pressed "init 0" command is executed? Total noob to udev rules

This most might be of use. Be warned... my OS of choice is Debian, if that makes an difference.

Thank you very much!
That actually seems like it will work perfectly.