It’s known that suddenly cutting the power to these sorts of units can brick them - does the team think that having batteries installed would protect against that? Does it switch over?
It’s inevitable it’s going to happen a some point - cable gets knocked out, whatever. I don’t want to test it without knowing obvs.
Yes, the Organelle M auto-detects where the power is coming from. It first checks for external power and then to batteries if external power is removed.
RE: ‘bricking’ - this is unlikely because the OS partition is ‘read-only’ so no files are written to it, removing the chance of file corruption. (If you are recording audio or a sequence when power is removed, you will probably lose that, because the storage partition on SD card or USB storage are read/write and the file will probably not be finished writing if power is removed.)
Thanks, that’s good news. I’m going to try it then…because it’s bound to happen at the worst possible time
To be fair, I’ve never ruined a Raspberry Pi this way, but you hear stories don’t you. I was always surprised by these, as I thought the journaling file system would prevent it, aside from as you say some data loss.