Can toggle power to qwiic devices?

Qwiic System
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I’d like to connect a SparkFun Thing Plus Artemis to things like the STHS34PF80 Presence Detector and the SparkFun Qwiic Buzzer.

But my device is battery-powered so I intend that it only wakes up for a couple seconds every minute. By default do these qwiic devices remain powered up, or is there a built-in way to turn them on/off?

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I only know that the Artemis OpenLog board and the Micromod single & double main-boards have an option to switch the 3v3 for the Qwiic connector. For other boards it is directly connected to 3.3V and thus stay powered.

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Digging around, it seems that SparkFun Qwiic Power Switch is what I need. yes?

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Yes… that looks like it has been created for that purpose.