[HowTo] - RPi 4 annoying LED's

**Jocke.Sve** · August 11, 2021 at 9:56 AM

I was installing LE on RPi4 and noticed how annoyingly bright the LED's are.

In dark bedroom it was quite horrible, even when trying in darkish livingroom You could see the LED's reflections...

Found an easy and persistent "fix" that works but shouldn't be used until everything is setup properly and perhaps should be removed whilst troubleshooting.

Via SSH session:

Code

mount -o remount,rw /flash

Code

nano /flash/config.txt

in [pi4] section (create or add):

(Two rows for each "feature", enable/disable with "#" as desired)

Code

[pi4]
# 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
# Disable ethernet port LEDs
dtparam=eth_led0=4
dtparam=eth_led1=4

Save, exit and reboot!

Done!!

DarkEther · August 13, 2021 at 3:22 PM

Hah, all I did was get a black sharpie and draw on them, that dulls them down enough to not bother me anymore.

**Jocke.Sve** · August 13, 2021 at 6:44 PM

Quote from DarkEther

Hah, all I did was get a black sharpie and draw on them, that dulls them down enough to not bother me anymore.

That's one way...

Just giving an option. Personally I prefer the code.

**Klojum** · August 14, 2021 at 5:01 AM Official Post

Having a solid (not see-through) casing like the Flirc case will also dim the leds pretty much to zero. I have no complaints on them in the bedroom darkness.

But the code is always a nice addition for all of us geeks.

fominator · December 2, 2022 at 11:44 PM

This trick doesn't work anymore! Hot to turn off LEDs now?

**HiassofT** · December 3, 2022 at 1:42 AM

Quote from fominator

This trick doesn't work anymore! Hot to turn off LEDs now?

use the search function of the forum, this has been asked at least 2 times in the last few weeks....

fominator · December 3, 2022 at 3:22 PM

your search doesn't work

you could provide a link, but it's too hard for you i see

**HiassofT** · December 3, 2022 at 3:51 PM

I've pinged admins regarding broken search.

Assuming you are running LE 10.0.3 (you didn't mention which version you use) you could just have looked at the 10.0.3 announcement thread instead of necro-posting to an ancient thread - the solution to your issue is even on the first page of that in post number 15

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RE: LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0.3

[…]

See here: https://github.com/raspberrypi/fi…ment-1225910618

[…]

so long,

Hias

HiassofT

October 22, 2022 at 4:18 PM

so long,

Hias

fominator · December 3, 2022 at 4:02 PM

Thank you!

[HowTo] - RPi 4 annoying LED's

RE: LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0.3

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