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I've never seen a nest camera in the wild. I do however have a little USB webcam with LEDs that cannot be disabled. I taped over them with black tape so as not
by esotericn 7y ago
I've never seen a nest camera in the wild.
I do however have a little USB webcam with LEDs that cannot be disabled. I taped over them with black tape so as not to draw attention to the camera. The proper version of this would just be to like, desolder them or whatever.
Is there any reason this wouldn't work? Perhaps if the camera is forced to be displayed prominently like on a front door you'd see that it'd been obscured?
- phnofive 7y agoProbably depends on the camera board, but mechanically disabling the LED is either going to mysteriously disable the entire device, or be undetected, or the designer specifically accounted for that and something else happens. As long as you’ve got your iron hot, you could replace the LED with a D(iode): https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/111219/remove-an-led-from-a-circuit https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/111219/remov...