Any way to turn off LED on Pi 3?

[trumpet205]

As titled. I see various guide on how to turn off the LEDs on Pi and Pi 2, but not Pi 3 though.

Tried the echo command and it returned with no such file or directory error. I'm running on Ubuntu Mate 16.04 LTS.

[broe23]

You can get the darkening dots and strips on Amazon, to help dim them. It may take two or three to get them down where they are not so bright, but you are still able to see them.

[DougieLawson]

You can get the darkening dots and strips on Amazon, to help dim them. It may take two or three to get them down where they are not so bright, but you are still able to see them.

A thin strip of gaffer tape is as good as anything. I did that for the stupid blue standby LED on the TV in our bedroom. Blue LEDs should be outlawed.

[jbudd]

I don't know about Ubuntu but on the Pi3 running Raspbian you can turn off the green ACT led by adding two lines to /boot/config.txt:

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dtoverlay=pi3-act-led
dtparam=act-led-trigger="none"

According to /boot/overlays/README the first line reverts to the old style control of the Activity LED, the second line disables all trigger events.

Unfortunately, there is no equivalent for the PWR led.
It might be possible though because the red LED does sometimes go off without the Pi halting (eg a weak USB power supply).

[DirkS]

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dtoverlay=pi3-act-led
dtparam=act-led-trigger="none"

According to /boot/overlays/README the first line reverts to the old style control of the Activity LED, the second line disables all trigger events.

According to the docs configuring a GPIO is required. Since you have to dedicate one GPIO pin the second line is not adding anything if you want to switch off the ACT led.

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dtoverlay=pi3-act-led,gpio=17

BTW: parameter values don't need quotes around them

[jahboater]

Or, perhaps more simply:-

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echo none > /sys/class/leds/led0/trigger

You can do other things:-

i@raspberrypi:/sys/class/leds $ cd led0
pi@raspberrypi:/sys/class/leds/led0 $ ls
brightness device max_brightness power subsystem trigger uevent
pi@raspberrypi:/sys/class/leds/led0 $ cat trigger
none kbd-scrollock kbd-numlock kbd-capslock kbd-kanalock kbd-shiftlock kbd-altgrlock kbd-ctrllock kbd-altlock kbd-shiftllock kbd-shiftrlock kbd-ctrlllock kbd-ctrlrlock [mmc0] mmc1 timer oneshot heartbeat backlight gpio cpu0 cpu1 cpu2 cpu3 default-on input rfkill0 rfkill1
pi@raspberrypi:/sys/class/leds/led0 $

[trumpet205]

led0 is for Activity LED right? I'm looking to turn off Power LED (led1).

There is no led1 folder under /sys/class/leds/

[occupied]

led0 is for Activity LED right? I'm looking to turn off Power LED (led1).

There is no led1 folder under /sys/class/leds/

I'm happy to be proven wrong, but I was unable to turn off the Power LED on Pi 3.
(Pi 2 no problems)

[jbudd]

This extract from https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/1332 suggests that you cannot currently turn off the power LED

The PWR LED on RPis since the B+ has doubled as an under-voltage indication. Since GPIOs are in short supply, as well as being an indicator it is also the under-voltage detector - there is some external circuitry that can detect the GPIO direction so that it is either an input with an automatic LED or an output. This circuitry is only present on the red LED. The ability to change the "PWR" LED pin to an output, as you must do to make it the ACT LED, bypasses the under-voltage detection, which is permitted but not recommended.

As @popcornmix says these LEDs are now on a GPIO expander, and controlled from the VPU. These GPIOs may never be available as fully featured GPIOs because they are too slow to use in many circumstances. There is a simple GPIO driver that can efficiently control the ACT LED, but more effort is needed to make it work with the PWR LED and change its direction to an output. This is something we may address, but it isn't high on the list of priorities at the moment.

[tmowbray]

You can get the darkening dots and strips on Amazon, to help dim them. It may take two or three to get them down where they are not so bright, but you are still able to see them.

A dab of nail polish will get the job done quickly and easily as well....

[bbaumg]

Take a look at this page... He does not call out the Pi 3, but it worked on mine.

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blogs/jeff ... spberry-pi

[CEO]

Yes, you can turn off the LEDs on the raspberry pi model 3.
This was tested on the raspberry pi model 3 B+

The line below is used to turn off the power LED
sudo sh -c 'echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/led1/brightness'

The line below is used to turn off the action LED
sudo sh -c 'echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/led0/brightness'

[boyoh]

The time to bother about the Pi indicator lights , Is when they won't turn on.

Just a little bit of BlueTack will do the job.

Regards BoyOh

[EdwardBean]

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blogs/jeff ... spberry-pi

On My RaspPi 3B+ I just disabled the red power LED by...

# Disable the PWR LED.
dtparam=pwr_led_trigger=none
dtparam=pwr_led_activelow=off

[xer0w]

To turn off ALL LED's on Pi 3B+:
Add the following to the
/boot/config.txt

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# Disable Ethernet LEDs
dtparam=eth_led0=14
dtparam=eth_led1=14

# Disable the PWR LED
dtparam=pwr_led_trigger=none
dtparam=pwr_led_activelow=off

# Disable the Activity LED
dtparam=act_led_trigger=none
dtparam=act_led_activelow=off

Then restart

[Dami10]

This worked with success on raspberry pi 4B

To turn off ALL LED's on Pi 3B+:
Add the following to the
/boot/config.txt

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# Disable Ethernet LEDs
dtparam=eth_led0=14
dtparam=eth_led1=14

# Disable the PWR LED
dtparam=pwr_led_trigger=none
dtparam=pwr_led_activelow=off

# Disable the Activity LED
dtparam=act_led_trigger=none
dtparam=act_led_activelow=off

Then restart

[ruegi]

Hi
I just tried your solution on a RPi4 with LibreElec:

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# Disable Ethernet LEDs
dtparam=eth_led0=14
dtparam=eth_led1=14

# Disable the PWR LED
dtparam=pwr_led_trigger=none
dtparam=pwr_led_activelow=off

# Disable the Activity LED
dtparam=act_led_trigger=none
dtparam=act_led_activelow=off

For PWR and Activity Leds, it works like a charm, but the Ethernet leds ar still blinking.
Does anyone know how to handle this?

regards
ruegi

[PistiSan]

Hi
I just tried your solution on a RPi4 with LibreElec:

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# Disable Ethernet LEDs
dtparam=eth_led0=14
dtparam=eth_led1=14

# Disable the PWR LED
dtparam=pwr_led_trigger=none
dtparam=pwr_led_activelow=off

# Disable the Activity LED
dtparam=act_led_trigger=none
dtparam=act_led_activelow=off

For PWR and Activity Leds, it works like a charm, but the Ethernet leds ar still blinking.
Does anyone know how to handle this?

regards
ruegi

I too have these problems, Ethernet leds ar still blinking.

[Imperf3kt]

Hi
I just tried your solution on a RPi4 with LibreElec:

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# Disable Ethernet LEDs
dtparam=eth_led0=14
dtparam=eth_led1=14

# Disable the PWR LED
dtparam=pwr_led_trigger=none
dtparam=pwr_led_activelow=off

# Disable the Activity LED
dtparam=act_led_trigger=none
dtparam=act_led_activelow=off

For PWR and Activity Leds, it works like a charm, but the Ethernet leds ar still blinking.
Does anyone know how to handle this?

regards
ruegi

I too have these problems, Ethernet leds ar still blinking.

Physically remove the LEDs?
Or cut the legs off so no power goes to them?

You clearly don't want them, so there should be no issue there.