To use GPIO shutdown for the Raspberry Pi, add following lines in the file /boot/config.txt edit file: sudo nano /boot/config.txt # signal power off with green led dtoverlay=gpio-poweroff,gpiopin=16 # shutdown Pi when joystick button is pressed dtoverlay=gpio-shutdown,gpio_pin=26,gpio-pull=up # shutdown Pi when GPIO GP0 on Hat is set to low dtoverlay=gpio-shutdown,gpio_pin=17