Apparently the "ACT" LED on Raspberry Pi Zero is connected to GPIO 47. However, for some reason I can't set it using gpioctl(1): root@rpi-b:~ # gpioctl -c 47 out gpio_pin_set_flags: Invalid argument root@rpi-b:~ # gpioctl 47 1 root@rpi-b:~ # gpioctl 47 0 gpio_pin_set: Invalid argument It looks completely normal in "gpioctl -lv": pin 47: 1 pin 47<OUT>, caps:<IN,OUT,PU,PD,UNKNOWN,UNKNOWN,UNKNOWN,UNKNOWN,UNKNOWN>