Controlling the F200 green LED via SW: is it possible?

[Antonino]

Hi everybody,

I have an application developed in C# that monitors the user. The user is not always "under control" [for example he may be out of view or too in the darkness or whatever] but he/she needs to know if tracked in order to know if the app is doing its job or not. In other words I prefer the green LED in the F200 to indicate "target detected" [starting from a SW event already available in my code] instead of the generic meaning "camera active"

Is there a way to control this LED via SW starting from my SW event? if not, what's according to you the best architecture to achieve this result using an external LED? [for example if needed I have an Intel Edison and a Raspberry Pi 2 available but I can't figure out how practically implementing the transition from a device to the other]

Thanks in advance to those who will try to help,

Antonino

[Xusheng_L_Intel]

The green LED is always on during camera used. You cannot turn it off. I suggest you can use icon in your application to provide the visual feedback to the user. 

[Antonino]

Ciao David,
first of all thanks for the info, actually and unfortunately it was as I originally supposed. Then - provided that I can't control that LED - what's the smartest way to drive an external LED if in my scenario I don't have the possibility to show the feedback on a display? to tell it all I already have this alert on video but I have to re-engineer my project in a situation where I can't use a display, then I need an external LED as my visual output. At the moment the HW parts we will use for sure are the NUC and the RealSense, plus of course the ones needed for the LED control once we know what to add

Any help would be appreciated, in the meanwhile thanks a lot for the other answer

Have a nice day,
Antonino

[samontab]

Hey Antonino,

The easiest would be something like this:

https://blink1.thingm.com/

[Antonino]

Ciao Samontab,
thank you very much for your wonderful suggestion. This is the kind of answers I was looking for when posting. Moreover the device looks very versatile

Have a nice day,
Antonino