When I reboot my Raspberry Pi 3 device from the balenaCloud dashboard, is the device completely powered off (shutdown) and then turned on again?
I noticed that when I’m rebooting my Raspberry Pi from the dashboard, the connected USB devices do not lose power even for a second. So does that mean that the Raspberry Pi is never really powered down?
Hi @dakshshah96,
Often the LED’s on devices don’t actually go off during a reboot either due to capacitors which take a few seconds to dissipate their stored energy and/or they don’t ‘physically’ disconnect power from circuits for software commanded reboots.
If in doubt you can always SSH the host and use ‘uptime’ command to check last time OS rebooted.
https://linux.die.net/man/1/uptime
Cheers
Chris