This is the driver for the petrockblock.com PowerBlockling, which is an extension board for the Raspberry Pi (TM). The driver itself is denoted as powerblockling in the following. The driver provides a service for interacting with the power button signal as well as driving the optionally attached LED.

There comes an installation script with this reposity that does all the steps described below: install.sh This script compiles the driver, installs the binary and configuration files, and installs the PowerBlockling service.

To run the quick installation, you just need to call this one line from the Raspbian console

wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/petrockblog/PowerBlockling/master/install.sh | sudo bash

To uninstall the service you can simply call sudo ./uninstall.sh from within the PowerBlockling directory.

Have fun!

-Florian petrockblock.com