Beginners • Re: On/Off Switch for Raspberry Pi 4

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You should really be starting a new thread for each new question. You'll get more eyes on it that way. Too latre now though

Is there a way to turn on the Pi automatically when I login and shut down when I log out using these CMDs?

If the Pi isn't on you can't login.

PCs and Macs have Wake on LAN* but Pi's don't. If you're willing to add extra hardware it can be done using a Pico, zero, or another Pi: https://github.com/thagrol/fakewake

The Pi is setup to run the slide-show at start up, so if I could get the CMD commands to turn it off and on at login, that would be ideal.

To shutdown over ssh runorIt may be possibly to do that automatically on logout but that isn't something I've tried and on "logout" from what? A desktop session, an ssh session, a desktop terminal session?

*: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN

Statistics: Posted by thagrol — Wed Nov 12, 2025 12:40 am

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