Just spent hours trying to factory reset a Rachio 3, but instead of it going to “rebooting mode”, ie. displaying a pulsing white zone 1 light like in the reset instructions, it kept going to a pulsing blue light in zone 1…

Until I FINALLY I realized they were referring to this gunmetal-grayish blue color as WHITE.

I’ve noticed several router & gateway companies making the same mistake on their products indicator lights. They’ll say, “is the status light a steady white?” And I’ll say, “Yeah, if you mean light blue.” Silence. “Yeah”.

What gives? Are the LEDs getting syphilis over time?

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    1 year ago

    In the video you definitely see white in the center and blue on the ends (of that leftmost quarter of the bar)

    The unit I was working with has that blue color along the whole length of that quarter section.

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        1 year ago

        OK I was wrong to say the “blue color” runs the whole length of the quarter section - - my video matches their video and your description:

        https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZlhkRvS0S72hyf4QlnEP6Kl_gVBbtp7m/view?usp=sharing

        But the pulsing essentially goes from dark blue to very light blue, remaining darker blue on the edges as you say – I.E. if for some reason I wanted to trick people into referring to this as “blue” while still being able to show in court that it technically was “white”, THIS is how I would design it. (Why muddle the issue like this, combine blue & white in such close proximity [in both space AND TIME] and then ask ppl to look for one color? It matters in troubleshooting.)