# FanShim LED - light without daemon?

**URL:** <https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/fanshim-led-light-without-daemon/15268>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [November 3, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/fanshim-led-light-without-daemon/15268 "2020-11-03T14:47:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![jackyaz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/jackyaz/32/7254_2.png) [@jackyaz](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/jackyaz)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/fanshim-led-light-without-daemon/15268/1 "2020-11-03T14:47:46Z")

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Should the LED on the FanShim light without the daemon installed?

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**Author:** ![alphanumeric](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/alphanumeric/32/2729_2.png) [@alphanumeric](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/alphanumeric)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/fanshim-led-light-without-daemon/15268/2 "2020-11-03T15:40:53Z")

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No, it should only light up if instructed too. It’s a smart LED that needs to be told what color etc to display.

> **[Fan SHIM at Raspberry Pi GPIO Pinout](https://pinout.xyz/pinout/fan_shim)**
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> Mini cooling fan shim for Raspberry Pi

  
I have had other software like Plasma turn mine on though.

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**Author:** ![jackyaz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/jackyaz/32/7254_2.png) [@jackyaz](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/jackyaz)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/fanshim-led-light-without-daemon/15268/3 "2020-11-03T17:04:43Z")

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Cool, just wanted to check mine wasn’t broken! I’ve since got it running under Ubuntu 20.10 with my 8GB Pi4. Very impressive!

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**Author:** ![alphanumeric](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/alphanumeric/32/2729_2.png) [@alphanumeric](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/alphanumeric)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/fanshim-led-light-without-daemon/15268/4 "2020-11-03T18:13:12Z")

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Ah Ok, I’m with you now. I often run my fan shim with just a dtoverlay entry in config.txt. The fan turns on off and the LED remains off. You can also disable it in the daemon with the --noled option. If you actually want it you may have to get creative.  
[https://github.com/pimoroni/fanshim-python](https://github.com/pimoroni/fanshim-python)

Fan Shim includes one RGB APA-102 LED.

Set it to any colour with:

fanshim.set\_light(r, g, b)

Arguments r, g and b should be numbers between 0 and 255 that describe the colour you want.

For example, full red:

```auto
fanshim.set_light(255, 0, 0)

```