Proper power off

So I understand it's not ideal to just pull the plug on an RPi so I'm trying to make sure that LibreELEC get's shutdown cleanly. I have been playing with getting a UPS working on it and setting it up to automatically shut down when power is removed (The unit I'm using is a LiFePO4wered/Pi3).

Problem is when I remove the power and it shuts it down (after two minutes) I frequently see that when I plug power back in the unit doesn't ever get to the KODI boot screen just the first LibreELEC one. I then have to pull the power throughout the system, after which it reboots just fine.

I have to be able to remove power from the system as it's going to live in a motorhome and may have it's power interuppted at anytime, I have the source for the daemon for the LiFePO4wered so I can mod it but I don't know what to call. It looks like from looking at the source it does this:

void shutdown(void) { syslog(LOG_INFO, "LiFePO4wered/Pi triggered shutdown"); char *params[3] = {"init", "0", NULL}; execv("/sbin/init", params); }

Okay I'll go grab logs, I think my real question is what command would I issue from a SSH prompt and expect a good clean shutdown it looks like thi sis using "init 0" I can link you to the full code for the dameon here: GitHub - xorbit/LiFePO4wered-Pi: Access library, command line tool and daemon for the LiFePO4wered/Pi module

I've thought about running it off the 12V, but I don't want it just powering up randomly, I'm particularly sensitive about the use of any power in the rig as we boondock a lot (no external power). Also since there's a hard disk associated with it I don't want that spinning all the time. I also want this to be somewhat spouse proof. So it would be best if it just worked like another consumer component (i.e. the DVD player it's all replacing)

Yup thankyou Iridium looks like /sbin/init doesn't exist. Is "poweroff" okay to shutdown KODI cleanly, I can recompile the daemon using that.

Thanks, again though will that signal kodi to do a clean shutdown, or is there some other thing I need to do to ensure that kodi comes down cleanly.

Quote from warp95

I ave found this for LibreElec/kodi :

- Edit the lifepo4wered-daemon.c file and change the shutdown function to this:

void shutdown(void) {
syslog(LOG_INFO, "LiFePO4wered/Pi triggered shutdown");
char *params[6] = {"shutdown", "-h", "-t", "60", "now", NULL}; // shutdown halt in 10 seconds
execv("/sbin/shutdown", params);
}

It's here : LiFePO4wered/Pi • Hackaday.io

Thank you for posting I actually knew about that, it's exactly what I was asking about is that the correct way to clean shutdown Kodi...