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Setting and understanding status indicator lights

Setting and understanding status indicator lights - HERO Tutorial

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Setting and understanding status indicator lights

- You might've noticed that the GoPro camera offers some status indicator lights to tell you what's going on. Now these are often visible as you power up the camera. For example, this one has the indicator light on because it's currently charging the camera. If I were to disconnect that, the red light would turn off, since we're not doing anything active. So that light really serves multiple purposes. In this case, plugging it in to a USB cable indicates that it's charging. And now its pulling a charge from the battery or the power supply to recharge that built in battery. But the GoPro itself, does have multiple lights and you can decide how these lights are used. Let me walk you through some of these settings here. Now if we take a look at the GoPro camera, you'll see we have multiple LED's. For example, right now, there's one here in the supper corner. Let's remove this from he case for a second, so you can see these even better. Now, this particular model, the GoPro hero, five…

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