Over the years my family and I have rehabilitated young fledgling crows that get injured falling from the nest or trees etc.
Crows learn to fly from...
You can run scripts from fpp as part of your playlist thus you can add shutdown scripts to your playlist leadout and the pi/beaglebone will shutdown...
I'm still here ready and able to build....I still run some 30 wireframes....I had most of those back in the old early Renard days but since I started...