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Is power control to Pi or to PiJuice (battery)? Can I switch off USB power to Pi? #1087

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I've figured it out in the mean time, so I'll share it here in case it is of help to someone else.
Having studied the related sections in the hardware and software docs, I made this diagram

So, shutting off power from the Pi USB (/GPIO) entirely is not possible as the PiJuice can only switch this power on/off to itself.
However, there is some sort of total control over the micro-USB of the PiJuice itself. While it cannot be shut off completely (only lower amp control), it will be shut off completely if the "precedence" feature is set to 5V GPIO and there is a USB connected to the Pi. So, I could work with that.

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