Multicolored camera LEDs
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Overview
There are four LEDs on the edgertronic high speed camera.
| Location | LED | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Top LED on Ethernet connector near USB connector Green LED |
Cable speed | Off - 10 Mbps On - 100 Mbps |
| Bottom LED on Ethernet connector near power connector Green or Orange LED, depending camera serial number |
Link Beat and network activity |
Off - No network connection On - Link beat detected, network ready Blinking - network activity, packets being sent or received |
| Next to System status LED | System status | See table below. |
| Close to Multi-function button | Camera status | See table below. |
Global device status indications
- All LEDs off and fan off means no power.
- Red indicates error.
- If fan is on and system status LED is off then the device firmware needs to be updated (FPGA EEPROM contents are invalid). One customer used the wrong power supply and had these same symptoms, so first check you are using the power supply that came with the camera.
- Blinking LED indicates activity.
System LED
The System LED indicates the current camera status condition.
Multiple status conditions may occur simultaneously, but the LED can only show one status condition at a time. The following table lists the status indications in priority order.
| Color | status | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Off | Error | No power. If your fan is not spinning and no LEDs are illuminated, then you need to check your power source and cabling. |
| Red | Error | System processor not booting. Micro SD card needs to be re-imaged. We refer to re-imaging the micro SD card as unbricking the camera. |
| Red blinking | Error | If camera LED is also blinking red, then the camera update file loaded on the big SD card is corrupt. You can redo the software update. |
| Red / Green | Error | Test mode - you will not see this in normal operation. |
| Red / Yellow | Error | Configured for DHCP-only but no DHCP server has provided an IP address. Camera cannot communicate over Ethernet. DHCP-only is not supported yet, so you will not see this in normal operation. |
| Red / Magenta | Unused. | |
| Yellow blinking | System boot in progress. Blinks for 26 seconds then turns solid yellow. May take up to 146 seconds the first time a recovery image micro SD Card is used. | |
| Yellow / Blue | Warning | System ready, Ethernet not connected. |
| Yellow | System ready, Ethernet connected, using fixed IP address 10.11.12.13 | |
| Magenta | System ready, Ethernet connected, using fixed IP address other than default (10.11.12.13) IP address. | |
| Blue blinking | System boot in progress. Ethernet connected, camera using DHCP assigned IP address. | |
| Blue | System ready, Ethernet connected, using DHCP assigned IP address. | |
| White pattern | System firmware update in progress. Do not power cycle. See table below. |
Troubleshooting hint: If, after power on, your system LED blinks yellow or blinks blue, and never stops blinking, you need to do a factory reset.
Software update status
An update can take around 8 minutes depending on the camera mode - be patient!. You can monitor the update progress by noting the the system LED pattern and using the following table.
| Pattern | Action | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Yellow blinking | booting | 15 sec |
| White / Yellow | verifying update tarball | 38 sec |
| White blinking with camera LED White blinking |
Run update script optionally included in the update tarball | 0 sec |
| White | verifying update image | 38 sec |
| White / Cyan | build new root fs | 4 sec |
| White / Magenta | switch to new root fs | 3 sec |
| White / Green | saving to micro SD | 4:55 min |
| Yellow blinking | rebooting | 15 sec |
| White blinking | saving to SPI EEPROM | 47 sec (SC1) 1:20 sec (SC2/SC2+/SC2X) |
| Yellow blinking | rebooting | 15 sec |
| White / Blue | system performing factory reset or restoring user settings after firmware upgrade | 7 sec |
Camera LED
The Camera LED indicates the current camera status condition.
Multiple status conditions may occur simultaneously, but the LED can only show one status condition at a time. The following table lists the status indications in priority order.
| Color | Matching web message | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Off | *no message* | Waiting for system to become ready. |
| Red / Blue | Storage Unusable, Trying to Save | No usable storage device, usually due to the storage device being full and camera is ready to save video(s). Try a different storage device, such as a different SD card. |
| Red / White | Storage Unusable, No Genlock | No usable storage device, usually due to the storage device being full and receiver camera unable to detect genlock signal from source camera. Try a different storage device. |
| Red / Green | Storage Unusable | No usable storage device, usually due to the storage device being full and camera is ready to be triggered. Try a different storage device. |
| Red / Magenta | Storage Unusable, Triggered | No usable storage device, usually due to the storage device being full and camera has been triggered and is filling post-trigger buffer. Try a different storage device. |
| Blue / White | Saving No Genlock Signal | Saving captured video to storage device and receiver camera unable to detect genlock signal from source camera. |
| Blue / Green | Saving, Ready | Saving captured video to storage device and camera is ready to be triggered. (Background Save Mode) |
| Blue / Magenta | Saving, Triggered | Saving captured video to storage device and camera has been triggered and is filling post-trigger buffer. (Background Save Mode) |
| Blue blinking | Saving | Saving captured video to storage device. |
| White blinking | No Genlock Signal | Genlock receiver camera unable to detect genlock signal from source camera. |
| White / Green | Genlock Configuration Warning | Incompatible Genlock source and receiver settings and camera is ready to be triggered. |
| White / Magenta | Genlock Configuration Warning | Incompatible Genlock source and receiver settings and camera has been triggered and is filling post-trigger buffer. |
| Green blinking | Pre-trigger Fill, Ready | Filling pre-trigger buffer and camera is ready to be triggered. |
| Green / Magenta | Camera Shutter Warning | Shutter failure. You can still capture videos, but the image quality will be degraded. |
| Green / Yellow | Camera Memory Warning | DDR3 memory initialization failed. You can still capture videos, but the image quality will be degraded. |
| Green / Cyan | All Capture Buffers Full | Trigger is disabled due to all DDR3 capture buffers being full. Occurs in manual save mode. |
| Green | Ready | Pre-trigger buffer filled (new capture video frames overwriting oldest data) and camera is ready to be triggered. |
| Magenta blinking | Triggered | Camera has been triggered and is filling post-trigger buffer. |
| Cyan | Reviewing | Reviewing previously captured, but unsaved videos. Individual frames that have been captured can be review and regions captured videos can be selectively saved. |
| Yellow blinking | Calibrating Camera | Calibrating. |
| White | Attached Accessories | Overrides the current camera LED pattern for 3 seconds to indicate an accessory, such as a radar device, has been attached. |