Disable CHG indicator LED

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Hello,

I am using a boron in an environmental monitoring unit that’s power source is not a single cell LiPo battery, but is a sufficient enough power source.

I have noticed that the charging indicator LED is typically me that there is a charge fault condition or that the battery is disconnected.

I haven’t been able to find a way in software to disable that LED, but I have found two methods buried in the PMIC class called disableChargeFaultINT() and disableBATFaultINT() in the docs, but they have no description and when I include them in code they do not compile, as if they didn’t exist.

I tried addressing the register07 in the PMIC and changing the flags for the INT_MASK options, hoping it would disable the two blinking modes by the LED.


    PMIC().begin();
    PMIC().disableCharging();
    //PMIC().disableChargeFaultINT();
    //PMIC().disableBatFaultINT();
   
    // 0b11001110 = disable watchdog
    // 0b11000110 = disable watchdog and charge safety timer
    byte DATA = PMIC().readChargeTermRegister();
    DATA &= 0b11000110;
    // This would be easier if pmic.writeRegister wasn't private (or disable
    // charge safety timer had an exposed method
    Wire1.begin();
    Wire1.beginTransmission(PMIC_ADDRESS);
    Wire1.write(CHARGE_TIMER_CONTROL_REGISTER);
    Wire1.write(DATA);
    Wire1.endTransmission(true);

 //last two 0's in string disable INT_MASK[]   
 DATA &= 0b01001000;

    Wire1.begin();
    Wire1.beginTransmission(PMIC_ADDRESS);
    Wire1.write(MISC_CONTROL_REGISTER);
    Wire1.write(DATA);
    Wire1.endTransmission(true);

Is this a valid approach to disabling the CHG LED in software or is it even worth investigating? Any help would be appreciated.

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