Pi4B - Power light stays on after shutdown

[XueHai8]

One of the niceties of the Pi Zero is that when you shut it down,

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sudo shutdown -h now

, it turns all the lights off when its powered down completely: the Red Power light goes out as well. So you KNOW that its really off.

No other Pi models do that, including the new Pi4B.

Just wish it did. Maybe it can be added?
Or its just hardware and can't be changed.

[rpdom]

What Red Power light? The Pi Zero doesn't have a red LED. Only the Green one.

The Power light on all of the other models can be controlled by software (apart from the original Pi A and Pi B where it was hard wired to the power), but I suspect that the GPIO that drives it might revert to an "on" state when the Pi shuts down.

[drgeoff]

One of the niceties of the Pi Zero is that when you shut it down,

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sudo shutdown -h now

, it turns all the lights off when its powered down completely: the Red Power light goes out as well. So you KNOW that its really off.

No other Pi models do that, including the new Pi4B.

Just wish it did. Maybe it can be added?
Or its just hardware and can't be changed.

No RPi model goes off. They stop running but are still consuming some power. The only way to reduce that power to zero is to remove the power feed.

[fruitoftheloom]

One of the niceties of the Pi Zero is that when you shut it down,

Code: Select all

sudo shutdown -h now

, it turns all the lights off when its powered down completely: the Red Power light goes out as well. So you KNOW that its really off.

No other Pi models do that, including the new Pi4B.

Just wish it did. Maybe it can be added?
Or its just hardware and can't be changed.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... /#pi-power