“The one problem I've always come up against with the Raspberry Pi is how to shut it down when used in a headless situation or when the GUI your using doesn't give you an easy shutdown option.
That's no longer an issue with the OnOff SHIM, I quickly and easily soldered on the supplied header and with the one line auto install script I had the OnOff SHIM working with my CNCjs set-up in less than 5min and it works great.
I'm so happy I found these and ordered a couple to use with my Pi's.”
“This shim is great. Worked the first time, works every time. The only problem is that I cannot find a case that fit with the shim on. Does anyone know of such a case?”
“One of my favourite Pimoroni boards (shims). I have had random failures of Raspberry Pi's which seem to originate in switching them off by pulling out the plug. I am slowly adding these things to my projects and so far have not had any similar problems. Nice thing is that the onboard pushbutton works great for prototyping but there is a nice connection available for an external pushbutton when the project is moved to the finished article.”
“a must have bit o' kit if you want to go headless. nice and compact, and cheaper than corrupting a few SD cards.
after I did a lot of reading, I found out, to boot using regular power supply, then disable 1-wire in the raspberry pi configuration tool, other wise the onoff shim will only shut down but not start the pi. don't forget to power though the SHIM, and it works a treat.”
“Low cost and works great with Retropie running from battery but needs support for Recalbox!
Pimoroni please add Recalbox support. You can probably modify the existing powerswitch.sh script in Recalbox.”
