Hard resetting of RPI

Fozi

@Piggi instead of pulling the plug while the RPi is running, I‘d recommend to shut it down gracefully with

sudo shutdown -h now

and then to pull the plug.

Piggi

I bought sonoff basic wifi switch which I want to use to start up and shutdown the RPI so that’s why I want to Hard reset it. Is there any difference between pulling the plug and turning of the electricity through the smart wifi switch ?

sdetweil

@Piggi no difference… all bad

ttarzan

@Piggi No, there’s no difference. You just shouldn’t do it if you can avoid it.

Piggi

So I just basically need to manually shut the RPI down if I don’t want to use it anymore?
I followed this guys guide and he uses the sonoff switch too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa3VVZA0e5Y&t=376s

Fozi

@Piggi Believe me, it is not a question IF it breaks, it is a question WHEN it breaks, if you just pull out the plug.

Although I don’t know your use case, I have following proposal:

Use MMM-Remote-Control to shutdown or reboot your mirror (if you wan’t to do it manually) OR
setup a cron job, if you want to shut it down or reboot automatically at certain times.
Use/program the Sonoff switch to boot the RPi again, if it was shut down (switch off/on)

That way you are on the safe side with the RPi and you protect your investment for the Sonoff.

Regards
Fozi

Piggi

Thanks for helping guys, will try the MMM-Remote-Control option. Did not know something like that exist. Anyways TY for now.

Fozi

@Piggi you‘re welcome! That’s what a community is for.