| ▲ | moritzwarhier 15 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
Thanks for your reply — yourself as the Source can only make me feel flattered then for you responding to me. > Macbooks manufactured since 2014 turn on the LED whenever any power is supplied to the camera sensor, and force the LED to remain on for at least 3 seconds. That convinced me originally I think, good old days! I'd almost forgotten about it. The way you phrased it, it sounded like 50% OS concern to me. But if cam & LED rly share a power supply, and the LED is always on without any external switch, Good then! | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | axoltl 15 hours ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
I was not very popular with the camera firmware folks for a while. They had to re-architect a bunch of things as they used to occasionally power on the camera logic without powering the sensor array to get information out of the built-in OTP. Because the LED now came on whenever the camera was powered they had to defer all that logic. | |||||||||||||||||
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