Add a command to picade hat

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Complete noob here.

The story goes…

I am building an arcade table, have got my raspberry pi set up with a picade hat. All that is set up fine and everything works. the problem is the monitor I have attached won’t go to sleep when the pi shuts down. Now, I have found a command that will turn off the monitor, I just can’t for the life of me figure out where it needs to go.

I know I was asking for trouble by doing this but I inserted the code into a couple of places in the picadehatd script in the /etc/rc6.d directory but 1 place I put it had the command run at both startup and shut down and another place it did nothing. Can anyone help?

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I’m not sure I follow - power reaching your monitor has nothing to do with the software side, or Picade HAT, unless that is not the whole story.

… how is your display connected and what command are you talking about? Without those details it is impossible to provide any constructive answer, I’m afraid.

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The pi is connected to the monitor via hdmi. I have a command that uses cec to shut off a tv/monitor. It’s a samsung monitor with built in tv function so for whatever reason it doesn’t shut itself off.

The command I have is:
echo standby 0 | cec-client -s -d 1

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ideally you will want to create a systemd unit that triggers your cec-client command on poweroff.

… it is not overly complicated, but you may be able to get away with a cron entry to achieve the same result.

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As I said at the start of the post… total noob here.

How might I go about doing that