Blinking blue info/liveview LED on 5d2?

[cjb]

Hi, I'm using the unified branch on a 5d2.

Unless I'm in liveview, the blue info/liveview button blinks around once every three seconds, and is always on when my shutter's half pressed in manual focus.  It's pretty distracting.  Anyone know how to turn it off?

Thanks!

- cjb.

[a1ex]

It tells you "hey, you forgot the camera on! it may be draining the battery...".

The "always on" is because you enabled some feature that uses half-shutter (like HDR or trap focus).

[cjb]

Thanks.  I can't find what's keeping it on --

Global draw: off
HDR video: off
everything in "shoot": off
Trap focus: off
Follow focus: off

Any ideas?

[a1ex]

Does this happen with the RC1 (just posted)? If yes, send me your config file.

[cjb]

It's with 48e0966717c1, from a week or so ago:

% cat magic.cfg                                                               
# Magic Lantern 2012Jul01.5D2212.cjb.48e0966717c1 (48e0966717c1+ (unified) tip)
# Build on 2012-07-01 21:13:29 by cjb@ihavetofashionpuzzles
# Configuration saved on 2012/07/08 13:42:42
menu.upside.down = 0
menu.adv = 1
menu.first = 11835118
debug.timed-dump = 0
audio.monitoring = 1
audio.draw-meters = 2
audio.filters = 1
audio.input-choice = 4
audio.alc-enable = 0
audio.o2gain = 0
audio.lovl = 0
audio.mic-power = 1
audio.dgain.r = 0
audio.dgain.l = 0
audio.mgain = 4
buffer.warning.level = 70
bitrate.indicator = 1
time.indicator = 3
h264.bitrate-factor = 13
h264.bitrate-mode = 1
h264.qscale.plus16 = 8
battery.drain.rate.rev = 88
lcd.adjust.position = 0
bmp.color.scheme = 0
preview.saturation = 1
preview.contrast = 3
arrows.bright_sat = 0
arrows.tv_av = 0
arrows.iso_kelvin = 0
arrows.audio = 0
arrows.set = 1
arrows.mode = 0
digital.zoom.shortcut = 1
swap.menu = 0
quick.review.allow.zoom = 0
halfshutter.sticky = 0
play.lv.button = 0
quick.delete = 0
play.set.wheel = 2
play.quick.zoom = 3
af.frame.autohide = 1
burst.auto.picquality = 0
dof.preview.sticky = 0
bv.needed.by.av = 0
bv.needed.by.tv = 0
bv.needed.by.iso = 0
movie.log = 0
shutter.display.degrees = 0
display.dont.mirror = 1
lcdsensor.wakeup = 1
electronic.level = 0
defish.preview = 0
idle.rec = 2
idle.display.gdraw_off.after = 0
idle.display.dim.after = 0
idle.display.turn_off.after = 0
spotmeter.position = 1
spotmeter.formula = 0
spotmeter.draw = 0
spotmeter.size = 5
clear.preview.mode = 0
clear.preview.delay = 1000
clear.preview = 0
vectorscope.draw = 0
waveform.bg = 38
waveform.size = 0
waveform.draw = 0
hist.log = 1
hist.warn = 3
hist.colorspace = 1
hist.draw = 0
focus.peaking.grayscale = 0
focus.peaking.color = 7
focus.peaking.thr = 10
focus.peaking.method = 1
focus.peaking = 0
zoom.overlay.split = 0
zoom.overlay.pos = 1
zoom.overlay.x = 2
zoom.overlay.size = 0
zoom.overlay.trig = 3
zoom.overlay = 0
falsecolor.palette = 0
falsecolor.draw = 0
crop.playback = 0
crop.movieonly = 0
crop.index = 0
crop.enable = 0
zebra.rec = 1
zebra.level.lo = 5
zebra.level.hi = 95
zebra.mode = 1
zebra.draw = 0
global.draw = 0
transparent.overlay.y = 0
transparent.overlay.x = 0
transparent.overlay = 0
disp.mode.x = 0
disp.mode.c = 1
disp.mode.b = 1
disp.mode.a = 1
disp.mode = 0
lv.disp.profiles = 0
bramp.calib.5 = 0
bramp.calib.4 = 0
bramp.calib.3 = 0
bramp.calib.2 = 0
bramp.calib.1 = 0
bramp.calib.0 = 0
bramp.calib.m1 = 0
bramp.calib.m2 = 0
bramp.calib.m3 = 0
bramp.calib.m4 = 0
bramp.calib.m5 = 0
bramp.calib.sig = 0
picstyle.rec = 0
picstyle.rec.sub = 1
bulb.ramping.manual.focus = 1000
bulb.ramping.manual.expo = 1000
bulb.ramping.percentile = 50
bulb.ramping.auto.speed = 100
bulb.ramping.auto = 3
bulb.ramping = 0
motion.trigger = 0
motion.release-level = 8
mlu.auto = 0
bulb.duration.index = 5
bulb.timer = 0
zoom.auto.exposure = 0
zoom.focus_ring = 0
zoom.halfshutter = 0
zoom.sharpen = 0
zoom.disable.x10 = 0
zoom.disable.x5 = 0
silent.pic.slitscan.skipframes = 1
silent.pic.sweepdelay = 350
silent.pic.highres = 0
silent.pic.submode = 0
silent.pic.mode = 0
silent.pic = 0
lv_3rd_party_flash = 0
flash_and_no_flash = 0
audio.release-level = 10
focus.trap = 0
interval.stop_after = 0
interval.movie.duration.index = 2
interval.start.timer.index = 3
interval.timer.index = 10
hdr.scripts = 2
hdr.iso = 0
hdr.seq = 1
hdr.delay = 1
hdr.ev_spacing = 16
hdr.frames = 1
hdr.enabled = 0
iso_selection = 0
lvae.disp.gain = 0
lvae.iso.spd = 10
lvae.iso.max = 104
lvae.iso.min = 72
bv.av = 48
bv.tv = 111
bv.iso = 88
bv.auto = 0
rec.notify = 3
screen_layout.ext = 1
screen_layout.lcd = 0
shutter.lock.value = 0
shutter.lock = 0
enable-liveview = 0
movie.rec-key = 0
movie.mode-remap = 0
movie.restart = 0
wbs.ba = 100
wbs.gm = 100
wb.kelvin = 6500
hdmi.force.vga = 0
focus.patterns = 0
movie.af = 0
focus.follow.rev.v = 0
focus.follow.rev.h = 0
focus.follow.mode = 0
focus.follow = 0
focus.step = 5
focus.stack = 0
focus.rack.delay = 2
focus.wait = 1
focus.delay = 1
focus.stepsize = 2
fps.sound.disable = 1
fps.preset = 0
fps.timer.b.off = 1000
fps.timer.a.off = 1000
fps.override.idx = 10
fps.override = 0
hdrv.iso.b = 101
hdrv.iso.a = 72
hdrv.en = 0
lcd.release = 0
digic.cartoon = 0
digic.swap-uv = 0
digic.negative = 0
digic.desaturate = 0
digic.black = 100
digic.iso.gain.photo = 1024
digic.iso.gain.movie = 1024

[a1ex]

With your config, the blue LED stays off when pressing shutter halfway (5D2, 2.3 RC1).

[cjb]

Ah, I agree -- I had rack focus on when it was staying on on half-shutter.  But it still blinks once five seconds all the time.

[cjb]

Well, it stops blinking every five seconds after one minute of inactivity, which I guess is when powersave happens.

But it's distracting to have it blink all the time when the camera's in use; it spoils my concentration when I'm trying to compose a shot with the viewfinder.

[a1ex]

The purpose of that is to let the user know that something's running and may drain the battery.

Any suggestion?

[cjb]

Thanks for the explanation.  Some ideas:

1. I could try to get used to it
2. It could be made an option
3. The interval could be increased -- once every 10 or 15 seconds instead of 5.
4. It could be made smarter -- if I've pressed the shutter button (or any button, really) in the last ten seconds, I already know that the camera's awake.

Do we have some kind of interactivity timer that counts how long it's been since the user directly interacted with the camera?  If so, I'd be interested in working on hooking it up to that -- something like "we flash once every ten seconds, unless there's been interaction with the camera in the last ten seconds".  That would stop it from annoying me, because it's most annoying while I'm actively focusing and setting up for a shot.

[a1ex]

Yes, there are interactivity timers for powersave in LiveView (but only for that, for now).

There is a clock incrementing every second (get_seconds_clock) so a timeout from last button press is a good idea.

[cjb]

I'll work on that and submit a patch.  Thanks!

[cjb]

I've submitted a patch as a pull request:

https://bitbucket.org/hudson/magic-lantern/pull-request/5

[a1ex]

Applied - nice and clean fix. Thanks!