JDMDingo, I salute you. :D No way would I have realised this was the glitch. Your solution works a treat and is definitely the fix for those having similar trouble. It turns out I had a missing / in my rc.local file but what made it all work was the installation of a new directory and log file in th...

Hi Alesch, when I use the switch it turns on and boots normally - but it doesn’t auto run Camble’s python script. If I want to switch it off then the manual switch does nothing unless I've gone through the RetroPie menus and selected shutdown - at that point it will shutdown but keep the screen goin...

Wahey, I’m not alone! If anyone can help with this then it’d let me regard the build as finished. My kids have learned to manually shutdown using the menu system but it’d be so much simpler if they could just use the switch; darent let their pals near it meantime...

Thanks! I just tried that and the script isn’t showing. My /boot/config.txt file has the following line in it: dtoverlay=gpio-poweroff:gpiopin="22",active_low="y" And the most recent entries in the log.txt file are: 2018-09-17 14:13:33 [80] Reading /boot/config.txt took 0.2353 seconds. 2018-09-17 14...

Hi, I'm also a software newbie and beating my head against a wall at getting Camble's safeshutdown script to autostart on boot. For some reason it just won't start on boot - or, if it is, it isn't working! I've uninstalled and reinstalled the script from GitHub but still no joy. If I ssh in and run ...