Understanding the LEDs (LED indicators of the VIDEO4)
There are four LED indicators on front panel of VIDEO4 to indicate status of the unit.
STAGE 1 (Just after power up/reset the unit)
All 4 LEDs will light up when the unit is powered.
STATUS_LED will blink continuously if VIDEO4 isn’t able to find the firmware file. Follow from STEP 2 of VIDEO4 Firmware Update.
STAGE 2 (After STAGE 1)
POWER_LED will light up as soon as VIDEO4 is initialised and ready to accept commands
If POWER_LED starts to blink, it is indicating an error state related to Removable Compact Flash card.
- Once if there is no disk in Drive A:
- Twice if the disk in Drive A: is full
To recover from this state by formatting the disk or deleting files to gain considerable space.
- 3 times if the disk on Drive A: is too slow
It is not possible to record if the disk in Drive A: is too slow. To recover from this state, user is required to insert a new disk.
STATUS_LED will light up for about 1 second and then blink few short blinks in a sequence indicating the number of cameras attached to the system.
DATAINPUT_LED will blink for incoming serial data and it will continuously light up when there is a GPS Lock.
RECORDING_LED will light up when unit begin to record a video and goes off when unit stops recording.
If RECORDING_LED starts to blink while recording, it is indicating that the Removable Compact Flash card is only having free space to record 10 minutes of video and about to automatically stop soon.