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    LED power button on FLICR case

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    • Keltron3030K
      Keltron3030
      last edited by

      Hey Guys,

      I'm wondering if anyone on here has any experience with this. I was looking at this switch on adafruit but it's 16mm so I'm wondering if it will cause interference with the GPIO pins .

      https://www.adafruit.com/product/916

      Somebody posted an image in their Amazon review with what looks to be a similar button but I have to imagine it's smaller than 16mm.

      https://www.amazon.com/review/reviews-lightbox//ref=cm_cr_dp_mb_img?ie=UTF8&asin=B07349HT26

      Thanks for any insight.

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      • Keltron3030K
        Keltron3030 @Keltron3030
        last edited by

        @keltron3030

        I ordered one of these coming on a slow boat from China.

        https://m.ebay.com/itm/12mm-Push-Button-Switch-Metal-power-3V-380V-locking-Latching-Self-reset-socket/292404063917?_mwBanner=1&_rdt=1

        If anyone is interested in this mod I'll post pics if and when I get it installed.

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        • Keltron3030K
          Keltron3030 @Keltron3030
          last edited by

          Finally got the switch yesterday and installed. eBay listing said it was a latching switch but it ended up being a momentary. I wasn't able to put the switch on the side like I wanted since it was too long and wide and would interfere with the GPIO pins.

          This was really the only place I could put it.

          I have the led ring setup to be on when the pi is on and off when power is off.

          For anyone installing an led on their Pi 3+, I found that pin 8 (GPIO 14) used for power is set to low(power off) by default on newer versions of the OS, I'm on Linux 9 stretch from the image I got with 4.4.1. To enable it you need to add the following line to /boot/config.txt

          enable_uart=1

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