"A. Dumas"  wrote

| > ? They have a power switch.
|
| They don't. Like Andy said: if you do not physically disconnect the power
| plug, the Pi will be halted, not powered off.
|
| > if you made it from scratch you might not have a power
| > line switch, but it's standard with the kits.
|
| Not with my kits.
|
   Interesting. I bought a kit at Microcenter. It seemed
cheaper and easier than buying separate pieces.
Included was a short length of cord with an inline switch.
So I treat it just like a computer. Since I only use it
to stream Internet/movies to a TV, there's no reason
to have it on normally. I turn it on when I want to use it.
When I'm through I go to shutdown, let the OS shut down,
then turn off the power. But I suppose if you're using it as
part of some kind of 24/7 device you'd never want to
turn it off or shut down the OS.

  I've never tried leaving the power on after shutdown,
but I know it doesn't self-boot because that HDMI input
to the TV no longer has input, even if I haven't yet
turned off the power switch. So presumably I'd have to
cycle the switch to get it to boot again.

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