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Idea: Raspberry Pi 5 - Reducing power wastage
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My Pi 5 was always warm even when turned off.  Turns out they've gone with a really stupid default which wastes ~1.6W even when not in use. Nice power button, though.

Fortunately you can change this via the pi-eeprom-config tool:

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/r...ption-140x

Having done this my Pi is dead cold when turned off.

This is something you only need to do once so the eeprom-writing tool doesn't need to be part of moOde; however, it would be pretty handy if it was because otherwise users (who only use their Pi for mOode) are going to have to write and boot into a regular Pi OS just to run the tool.

I mention this because at least one Pi based distro (the retro gaming system Batocera) does not provide this tool (although admittedly they only have a very early beta for the Pi 5 and perhaps this will change).
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Raspberry Pi 5 - Reducing power wastage - by Sehnsucht - 11-11-2023, 03:01 PM

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