I would like to be able to have a pi-top [4] with touchscreen to power on and off at specific times, as this would allow me to run it as a smart dashboard. that is smart enough to conserve energy.
Even if there was an OS-based trigger for powering off (anything can tell the system to shutdown), there is currently no way to tell the system to power on again at a later time.
It appears that the hub has 0xA6 and 0xA7 for this functionality (not implemented in hub API), but this requires some interaction with the system that is not available at the moment (that is, the hub is not having its own realtime clock set on each boot).
This is a neat little feature, and it would be great to have a formalised method for using it.
I would like to be able to have a pi-top [4] with touchscreen to power on and off at specific times, as this would allow me to run it as a smart dashboard. that is smart enough to conserve energy.
Even if there was an OS-based trigger for powering off (anything can tell the system to shutdown), there is currently no way to tell the system to power on again at a later time.
It appears that the hub has
0xA6and0xA7for this functionality (not implemented in hub API), but this requires some interaction with the system that is not available at the moment (that is, the hub is not having its own realtime clock set on each boot).This is a neat little feature, and it would be great to have a formalised method for using it.