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Shutdown Pi will not power off LCD

PostPosted: Thu Dec 04, 2014 4:29 pm
by youall
Hi all,

if I shutdown my pi with following command "sudo shutdown -h -P now", the display is on after the pi is halted.Why?
I can also measure a voltage of approx. -3.3V on the 3.3V and 5V Pins.

Can anybody help me? I want to shut down the Pi with one of the display buttons, but with that behavior, it's not so nice!

Best regards

Nico

Re: Shutdown Pi will not power off LCD

PostPosted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 10:15 am
by joe
The shutdown command will not switch off the power.

If you want to switch off the power, you must implement some kind of hardware that cuts the power after a short delay time. That hardware can be wired to the button or an GPIO port that is controlled upon shutdown.

If you don't want to build such hardware, you can switch off the LCD backlight upon shutdown by setting the brightness to zero. The command depends on the display type. For the PI40 the command is
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echo 0 | sudo tee /sys/class/backlight/lcd-pi/brightness