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I'm thinking of building an array of Pis but I'd like an intelligent method of powering them, i.e., I would like power to each to be controllable via USB. I like the USB GPIO Module suggestion given here, however, I would like to know if the reset pin is an okay method of starting the Pi assuming it was properly halted.

The other method I considered was using a USB-controllable power strip, but the reset pin method sounds much cheaper if it's okay.

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I would like to know if the reset pin is an okay method of starting the Pi assuming it was properly halted.

There isn't actually a pin, but there are two holes at P6 on the rev. 2 board (~1cm left of the HDMI jack) that if shorted together will reset the power. You can attach a switch to this.

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