Turn off all LEDs on a Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pis are very useful, but the LEDs can be distracting. Here is how to disable all of them.

• Connect to the Raspberry Pi with SSH

• Open the file /boot/config.txt as admin using sudo nano /boot/config.txt

• Add the following line at the end of the file:

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  # Disable Power LED (Red)
  dtparam=pwr_led_activelow=off
  
  # Disable Activity LED (Green)
  dtparam=act_led_trigger=none
  dtparam=act_led_activelow=off
  
  # Disable Ethernet LEDs (Green and Orange)
  dtparam=eth_led0=14
  dtparam=eth_led1=14

• Save the file using CTRL+S and exit using CTRL+X

• Reboot the Raspberry Pi with sudo reboot

Note: If you are using Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi, you must update the config.txt file at the root of the hassos-boot partition instead of /boot/config.txt.

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