# Turn off POWER LED?

**URL:** <https://community.frame.work/t/turn-off-power-led/11967>\
**Category:** Framework Laptop 13\
**Created:** [December 7, 2021, 12:06pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/turn-off-power-led/11967 "2021-12-07T12:06:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Taylor\_Judd](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/taylor_judd/32/4707_2.png) [@Taylor\_Judd](https://community.frame.work/u/Taylor_Judd)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 12:06pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/turn-off-power-led/11967/1 "2021-12-07T12:06:25Z")

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Latptop working great but will leave it on sometimes at night to download steam games or .iso. Power LED is super bright. Been reading some things about turning off LEDs but can’t seem to get it working.

I’m on Ubuntu 21.10…

```
ls /sys/class/leds
input20::capslock input20::numlock input2::numlock
input20::compose input20::scrolllock input2::scrolllock
input20::kana input2::capslock phy0-led

```

I’ve tried issuing a few commands to phy0-led but no success and none of the others look right.

```
$ sudo echo 'none' > ./trigger 
bash: ./trigger: Permission denied

```

Is there something I’m missing? Suggestions?

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**Author:** ![qbg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/b9bd4f/32.png) [@qbg](https://community.frame.work/u/qbg)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/turn-off-power-led/11967/2 "2021-12-07T12:28:00Z")

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`sudo` and shell redirection is tricky; see [here for some working alternatives](https://www.shell-tips.com/linux/redirecting-a-stdout-to-a-file-using-sudo-and-tee/). Just switching to root first with `sudo -i` is what I do.

There is also a setting in the BIOS to control the power led brightness. You can turn it down there, but not all the way off if I remember correctly.

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**Author:** ![Dominic\_Keen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ccd318/32.png) [@Dominic\_Keen](https://community.frame.work/u/Dominic_Keen)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 12:32pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/turn-off-power-led/11967/3 "2021-12-07T12:32:39Z")

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If you enter the latest Bios (3.06), then the Advanced tab you should be able to toggle the ‘power LED brightness level’ between High, Medium and Low