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Are keyboard buttons considered momentary contact switches?

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MACE
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The Raspberry Pi Standby Switch project says "any normally open momentary contact pushbutton will work".  I happen to have a mechanical key switch from an old computer keyboard.  Are key switches considered the right kind of switch for this project?



   
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Will
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Should work; keyboard keys are normally open momentary pushbuttons.


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@will Great. Thanks.



   
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@will I completed setting things up today.  They mechanical keyboard switch works great.  Thank you, again.



   
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Excellent, always happy to hear something worked 🙂


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