Proper Shutdown strategy in order to clone SD card - Does shutting down OH shutdown everything?

[rpwong (Russ)]

Here’s a tutorial for adding reboot and shutdown commands to your sitemap.

Beginner's guide to an openHABian reboot/shutdown switch

UPDATE, February 2, 2021: I’ve made a few edits to this tutorial so that it works for OH2 and OH3. It’s still written with text-based items and DSL rules that work in both versions. If you prefer to build your system in OH3’s UI, it should be pretty easy to convert the items and rules. As I get deeper into openHAB, I’m finding that I have to reboot or shutdown my Raspberry Pi reasonably often. It seemed like a good idea to set up a switch on my sitemap for that purpose, but was not nearly as e…

However, I need to update the commands. My understanding with Buster is that you can use:

sudo systemctl reboot
sudo systemctl poweroff

However, I haven’t tested this (since I’m not on Buster yet), so I haven’t updated the tutorial to reflect it.