# How to physically interact with an Rnode ?

_Help · started by tukan on Sat, Jun 6, 2026 8:49 AM_

Tags: RNode

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## Original post

**tukan** · Sat, Jun 6, 2026 8:49 AM

I have flashed a few LoRa boards with an Rnode firmware.

That works.

On those boards there are typically 2 buttons : a reset button and a user button.

I have figured out two things while interacting with them :

- a short press on the user button toggles bluetooth on / off
- a long press on the user button probably turns off the screen ?

I am wondering how to turn off the rnode completely in order to save battery life when not in use.
Is the long press on the user button only turning off the screen or is it turning off the entire rnode ?

Are there any other physical interactions with the rnode ?

(if there is some documentation about it that I missed please point me to it)

Thanks. Tukan.

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## Reply 1

**welo** · Sat, Jun 6, 2026 10:15 AM

I will just note that a long press also sometimes turns off and on bluetooth but then also shows the pin code for it. I think a 5 second hold turns it off and 10 second turns on bluetooth with the pin or something like that.

But yea I can confirm it does just turn the whole thing off (or at least makes it stop working as an rnode). If you just  want to turn off the screen to save on power but still have it running you can do `rnodeconf {devicePath} -D 0` to turn off the screen completely or `rnodeconf {devicePath} -D 64` if you just want it to be much less bright.

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## Reply 2

**tukan** · Sat, Jun 6, 2026 10:53 AM

That's wonderful ! Thanks.

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## Reply 3

**tukan** · Sat, Jun 6, 2026 11:00 AM

I have just tried to hold the user button for more than 10 seconds and it enabled the wifi AP, where I could connect to the RNode bootstrap console.

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## Reply 4

**OLIVE GARDEN** · Sat, Jun 6, 2026 6:17 PM

The rnodeconf -D setting does not work on my T114 on 1.8.6 firmware

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