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LED indicators

The RigFX front and lens-box panels expose three status LEDs so an operator can diagnose the unit at a glance without opening the web UI.

LED label positions on the RigFX panel

# Label Colour Reports
A Power LED 🔴 red Boot, normal operation, Ethernet link status
B Ref LED 🟢 green External genlock (Black Burst / Tri Level) lock
C Timecode LED 🟢 green Timecode input detection

Power LED

Red when active, off (âš«) when no power.

Pattern Sequence (≈1.5 s) Cadence Meaning
Off ⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫ — No power
Fast blink 🔴⚫🔴⚫🔴⚫🔴⚫🔴⚫ 10 Hz Booting — firmware initialising, wait ~1 s
Slow blink (heartbeat) 🔴🔴⚫⚫🔴🔴⚫⚫🔴🔴 1 Hz Normal operation, Ethernet link up
Double-flash + long pause 🔴⚫🔴⚫⚫⚫🔴⚫🔴⚫ 80·80·80·400 ms, repeating No Ethernet link — check cable / switch
Fast alternating with the other LEDs 🔴⚫🔴⚫🔴⚫🔴⚫🔴⚫ 8 Hz, 5 s window Identify triggered from the Discovery tool — physically locating this unit

Ref LED

Pattern Sequence (≈1.5 s) Meaning
ON, steady 🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢 External sync detected (Black Burst or Tri Level genlock locked)
OFF âš«âš«âš«âš«âš«âš«âš«âš«âš«âš« No genlock reference
Double-flash + long pause 🟢⚫🟢⚫⚫⚫🟢⚫🟢⚫ Lens box not responding — check internal connection
Fast alternating 🟢⚫🟢⚫🟢⚫🟢⚫🟢⚫ Identify in progress

Timecode LED

Pattern Sequence (≈1.5 s) Meaning
ON, steady 🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢 Timecode signal detected on the BNC input
OFF âš«âš«âš«âš«âš«âš«âš«âš«âš«âš« No timecode input
Double-flash + long pause 🟢⚫🟢⚫⚫⚫🟢⚫🟢⚫ Lens box not responding — check internal connection
Fast alternating 🟢⚫🟢⚫🟢⚫🟢⚫🟢⚫ Identify in progress

Tip

Ref and Timecode LEDs share the same alarm and identify patterns as the Power LED, so an alarm or identify event lights up the whole panel coherently.