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Red light used to indicate recording, traditionally. I'd expect the light to be green when I'm safe from spying.
by bonoboTP 6y ago
Red light used to indicate recording, traditionally.
I'd expect the light to be green when I'm safe from spying.
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- CamperBob2 6y agoNot sure why this was voted down, as that's the way I'd expect it to work as well. The red light should flash or pulsate when recording, in fact. Otherwise, people without good color vision might miss the cue.
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- jodrellblank 6y agoThe parent comment is a "hurr de hurr it should be green when I'm PROTECTED from SPYING" comment. From the point of view of a normal person who bought it for the Alexa functions, is GREEN for "stop" and RED for "go" honestly the way round you'd expect it to work?
- magicalhippo 6y agoWhile a multi-color LED would be preferable, if only a single LED could be spared then it's better that it's on to indicate mic is off. Otherwise the LED could fail and you wouldn't be able to tell if the mic was on. As is, you assume the mic is on if the LED fails, which is preferable from a privacy point of view.
- plumeria 6y agoMy 2015 Macbook turns on a green LED when the camera is recording.
- jannes 6y agoAgreed. The red LED seems to be a conscious choice to indicate something that you need to get rid of (like those notification badges on iOS app icons or the unread indicator on Facebook). This is especially jarring as the rest of Alexa LEDs are all blue.
- sokoloff 6y agoOn conference room phones (polycom spiders and similar), red usually indicates muted. From an end user mental model perspective, I think Echos are closer to that than to recording studio equipment. “Normally, to use this device, I speak to it and it warns me when that function is disabled.”