Bennor
May 27, 2020, 12:23pm
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If you roll your mouse cursor over the “i” graphic it will give a brief explanation of what the option does.
Enabling or disabling the LED option: “Sets the status of your drive’s LED.”
In other words it turns on or off the front LED on the single bay/single drive My Cloud.
Edit to add: It should be noted some have reported the blue element of the front LED burns out. Some have resorted to modifying the My Cloud firmware to use an alternate color. Example of past discussions:
Hello,
Yesterday I noticed the front panel of the MyCloud was not lighting up blue like it normally is. So I checked to make sure everything is working properly. Rebooted unit with no luck. Unplugged unit and restarted with no luck I do get the white light when rebooting but as soon as reboot happens it goes blank but everything other then that is fine. I suppose I can live with that - and YES, I made sure my LED’s are ON in the UI. Bums me out that the blue led burns out after only 3 years of…
I’ve found the same issue on my WD-Mycloud after the blue LED being off for about 2 Years (i was using DSM).
I’ve found the problem is caused by HW so the only choice is replacing it by a rarely used color like Green (which makes more sense by the way)
there are 2 solutions to replace the off LED by green.
1: (Easy)
ssh to the Mycloud.
#nano ~/.bashrc
add below text to the end of the file, then CTRL+X, then Y and then Enter to save the file:
echo green > /sys/class/leds/system_led/color
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