I run octoprint on a pi. I have octoprint controlling a relay for the printer, and I wanted a physical button on the printer to make octoprint toggle it.

Turns out a pi can also have a functional power button to turn it on and off these days too.

For the power button, you can use GPIO3 as a shutdown button, and also to turn it back on.

It's still powering the power rails and isn't fully off, but that's fine by me.

So I added

  • a momentary switch that is read via octoprint deal with the power relay, also managed by octoprint.
  • an RGB momentary switch to turn the pi on/off and show the state of the pi (turning on, running, shutting down)

pi GPIO:

  • gpio 3: toggle pi power via config.txt magics in the links above
  • gpio 17: blue power switch led (pi booting, and when the pi is off it's very dimly blue)
  • gpio 27: green power switch led (pi running)

  • gpio 22: red power switch led (pi turning off)

  • gpio 4: printer power relay
    • This is after the switch on the UM2, I cut the trace on the bottom after SW1 and put the relay between SW1 and J14+
  • gpio 24: 3V3 from printer to sense if relay is on
    • ultimaker 2 control board TP37(3V3) TP39(GND)
  • gpio 18: toggle relay button
    • octoprint physical button addon + curl + psu control addon

octoprint setup:

  • PSU control plugin
    • control relay, sense relay
  • physical button addon
    • toggle relay with system task that runs
      • curl -s -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "X-Api-Key: $apikey" -X POST -d '{ "command":"togglePSU" }' http://localhost/api/plugin/psucontrol
      • I tried the python octoprint api but it was super slow

config files

Turn the blue LED on at boot with config.txt and use systemd units to update the LED to running and poweroff

config.txt added to bottom:

dtoverlay=gpio-shutdown
gpio=17=op,dh
gpio=27=op,dl
gpio=22=op,dl

/etc/systemd/system/led-startup.service

[Unit]
Description=set LEDs to booted state
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/bin/bash -c '[ ! -d /sys/class/gpio/gpio17 ] && echo "17" > /sys/class/gpio/export; echo "1" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio17/value'
ExecStart=/bin/bash -c '[ ! -d /sys/class/gpio/gpio27 ] && echo "27" > /sys/class/gpio/export; echo "0" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio27/value'
RemainAfterExit=true

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

/etc/systemd/system/led-shutdown.service

[Unit]
Description=shutdown LED stuff
DefaultDependencies=no
Before=shutdown.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/bin/bash -c '[ ! -d /sys/class/gpio/gpio27 ] && echo "27" > /sys/class/gpio/export; echo "1" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio27/value'
ExecStart=/bin/bash -c '[ ! -d /sys/class/gpio/gpio22 ] && echo "22" > /sys/class/gpio/export; echo "0" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio22/value'
TimeoutStartSec=0

[Install]
WantedBy=shutdown.target

pi4 pinout

I also made a diagram for the pi4:

                             RPi 4
                             ┌───┐
                    +3V3   1 │○ ○│ 2   +5V
             (SDA) GPIO2   3 │○ ○│ 4   +5V
             (SCL) GPIO3   5 │○ ○│ 6   GND
                   GPIO4   7 │○ ○│ 8   GPIO14 (UART TXD)
                     GND   9 │○ ○│ 10  GPIO15 (UART RXD)
       (SPI1_CE1) GPIO17  11 │○ ○│ 12  GPIO18 (SPI1_CE0)    [PWM]
                  GPIO27  13 │○ ○│ 14  GND
                  GPIO22  15 │○ ○│ 16  GPIO23
                    +3V3  17 │○ ○│ 18  GPIO24
      (SPI0_MOSI) GPIO10  19 │○ ○│ 20  GND
      (SPI0_MISO) GPIO9   21 │○ ○│ 22  GPIO25
      (SPI0_SCLK) GPIO11  23 │○ ○│ 24  GPIO8  (SPI0_CE0)
                     GND  25 │○ ○│ 26  GPIO7  (SPI0_CE1)
   {Reserved EEPROM_SDA}  27 │○ ○│ 28  GPIO1  {Reserved EEPROM_SCL}
                  GPIO5   29 │○ ○│ 30  GND
                  GPIO6   31 │○ ○│ 32  GPIO12
[PWM]             GPIO13  33 │○ ○│ 34  GND
[PWM] (SPI1_MISO) GPIO19  35 │○ ○│ 36  GPIO16 (SPI1_CSO)
                  GPIO26  37 │○ ○│ 38  GPIO20 (SPI1_MOSI)
                     GND  39 │○ ○│ 40  GPIO21 (SPI1_SCLK)
                             └───┘