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Can't turn on ACT LED on baremetal Pi3
Models A and B
The green activity LED (GPIO 16) may be written.
Models A+ and B+
The green activity LED (GPIO 47) may be written.
The red power LED (GPIO 35) may be written.
The high USB power mode ...
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Turn off onboard LEDs at boot
I found a work around that simply allows me to add a few lines to the boot config file /boot/config.txt
To disable ACT LED, add
dtparam=act_led_trigger=none
dtparam=act_led_activelow=off
To disable ...
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Send PWM signal from Raspberry Pi 3 BEFORE boot
PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) applies to digital as well as analogue signals.
Individually addressable LED strips, such as you want to use, are not controlled by PWM signals. They are controlled by ...
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Pi 3 on-board LEDs
Having done some research myself I can't seem to come across any resources that explain how the LEDS work. I suspect the LEDs are something that are hardwired into the Ethernet port and are not ...
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Raspberry Pi not booting - red power light, no ACT light
If you want to fault find see The Boot Problems Sticky
It is possible, but unlikely, that the Pi "might be done for" but it is far more likely that the OS file system is damaged.
I suggest ...
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I inverted 2 GPIO pins. Is pi4 dead?
I think you mean "shorted" and not inverted. And yes, this is fatal for the PMIC (power management IC). Your Pi is dead.
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raspberry pi no rainbow screen
There's been a few reports of RPi 3Bs where there's no 3.3V power supply from the on-board voltage regulator. If you have a multimeter check between pin #1 and pin #6 on the GPIO header (carefully ...
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Normal Work of RPi 3B+
The red LED is the power indicator, it should be on whenever you have your pi plugged in. The green LED is the sd card access indicator; it goes on when the pi is accessing the sd card (which is like ...
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Pi 4 booting but no green LED blinking
With Raspberry Pi OS I believe by default it only blinks with SD card activity.
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Raspberry Pi 4: exchange power LED with activity LED
QUESTION - How to change LED function:
Green LED: Power (indicate power is applied)
Red LED: (indicate) Read and write activity of my SD card
ANSWER:
Add the following lines to your /boot/config.txt ...
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Pi 3B+ External Activity LED
You can re-route the act led to a GPIO pin by adding the act-led overlay to /boot/config.txt.
Example setting act-led to GPIO18:
dtoverlay=act-led,gpio=18
Info (see e.g. /boot/overlays/README)
Name: ...
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Use both internal and external activity LED?
An alternative answer to duplicating a led is to create another in /boot/config.txt using dtoverlay=gpio-led[,gpio|label|trigger|active_low]=<val>
eg.
dtoverlay=gpio-led,gpio=25,label=...
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RPi 4B ACT solid green
If the LED blinks 4 times when you power it on with NO SD card is inserted, there is a chance that you have an SD card error: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=250183
... had solid ...
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RPi 4B ACT solid green
Your RPi4B is dead. The fix will cost somewhere between £35 and £55 depending which model you've shot dead.
Never pull wires off a powered up Raspberry. Power down first. Check wiring, check it again ...
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Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ Faint green pinprick light steady flashing
Okay - the problem was a silly one.
I just unzipped the raspbian lite img file and copy pasted the disk image.
I decided to reformat the sd, and use etcher to write the entire img file to the sd, ...
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Can't turn on ACT LED on baremetal Pi3
Expanding joan's answer:
Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (1 GiB RAM) and A+ (512 MiB RAM)
The green activity LED (GPIO 29) may be written
The red power LED is connected to MXL7704 power management IC and is not ...
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Green Led (ACT) is blinking for mmc0 without SD card activity
I have also asked this question Why is the green LED (ACT) blinking without SD card activity also at the Raspberry Pi Forum and received this answer:
by rpdom » Wed Feb 22, 2017 8:02 pm
From what I ...
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