[HowTo] - RPi 4 annoying LED's

1st Official Post

    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!!

    Edited once, last by Jocke.Sve: Spelling/wording (August 11, 2021 at 10:17 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.

    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

    so long,

    Hias