Safe Shutdown GPIO Module

A small module that plugs directly into your Raspberry Pi 40 pin header and gives you Safe-Shutdown and Power-off.

Installing

Installation is really simple and only requires 4 lines of code added to your /boot/config.txt file

Step 1.

Connect to your Raspberry Pi via PUTTY

Step 2.

Edit the config.txt file

Step 3.

Add the following lines to the end of your config.txt file

#Shutdown Button
dtoverlay=gpio-shutdown,gpiopin=3
#Poweroff Trigger
dtoverlay=gpio-poweroff,gpiopin=4

Step 4.

Save your changes and then reboot using:

sudo reboot