Yeah, when I got into this thing I was building a manual switch board where every single thing could be switch up and down manually. Partly to save power but mainly because I thought a manual switch board looks awesome. (My working PC still has a control board with 14 switches
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Then I was introduced to voice control and things got out of control ![]()
This particular board though is for another project. I’m building an Escape Room and this will be the control board for the room. The cables are mostly about 5m / 5yards sometimes 10.
The locks are fail-safe with power off.
I’m aware that raspberries don’t like abrupt power off but they can cope with it. I have several of them and never bothered to do a clean shutdown.
The only time it fails (almost always) when Kodi plays a movie and there is an abrupt power off. That needs an sd card reflashing.