topic Re: LF-S50G - Strange lights in Portable Audio

LF-S50G - Strange lights

Malw113 — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 08:39:10 GMT

I bought the Sony LF-S50G google assistant speaker last week and it has perfomed flawlessly. Last night around 4.00am the 4 front LED lights started doing strange things. first they turned blue and started blinking in sequence from left to right, after a minute the two middle LED's lit up for 5 seconds, then the lights returned to the left to right sequence for another minute or so. At no time was there any commands or voice activation.

I checked the on-line manual and it does not mention this light sequence.

I then spoke to Sony support who has no idea what the lights ment.

As this records my voice and other data, im concerned what it is doing or has the unit been hacked.

I have video recording of the lights during this time.

Can someone advise me on what the speaker was doing, or is this unusual.

Re: LF-S50G - Strange lights

Pascale_F — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 18:29:07 GMT

Hi Malw113,

Welcome to the community.

I'll see if I can find this out for you. Maybe someone else in the community can help in the meantime.

Thanks,

Pascale

Betreff: LF-S50G - Strange lights

IamNic — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 19:45:17 GMT

Hello @Malw113,

I will check the manual just to be sure, yet to me it sounds like the light-sequence which indicates an ongoing update (during which the voice assistant is unavailable).

I personally use Amazon Echo devices which have a similar light-pattern when the service is receiving an update - these are also generally performed at night since then fewer users will try to access/use the feature.

- Nic

Re: LF-S50G - Strange lights

Vanilla_ — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 10:34:38 GMT

Hi Malw113,

I've checked the manuals and found this LED guide: https://helpguide.sony.net/speaker/lf-s50g/v1/en/contents/TP0001551371.html. But I agree with @IamNic. It seems that the LEDs on this speaker would randomly blink during an update.

Cheers,

Vanilla_

Re: LF-S50G - Strange lights

Surrendermonkey — Sat, 06 Jul 2019 06:04:29 GMT

Hi hi sorry if I'm repeating someone else's answer but the strange lights are the speaker trying to reach the Internet and it's searching for a connected Wi-Fi signal, so your router probably had an update or maybe a connection issue briefly, you can ask it why and it always makes me chuckle because the speaker almost sounds panicked "I'm struggling to connect to the Internet" you can do some amazing things with the speaker I love it. Have a look at the IFTTT app on Google store.

Re: LF-S50G - Strange lights

Surrendermonkey — Sat, 06 Jul 2019 06:21:59 GMT

Also why are ppl looking up in manuals things that the speaker itself can easily and more quickly resolve.? Try experimenting guys it's fun to argue with, mine pretends to not understand me half the time and tells me about things she's interested in lol. All joking aside they are amazing my speaker helped me diagnose my dog with diabetes and probably saved its life, sounds far fetched? I used it in conjunction with my TV to pull up pages from the Internet and here's where the speaker earned its biggest fan, I was cradling my seriously ill Yorkie out of my mind with fear, couldn't type questions at allso I fed the speaker symptoms and she cast pages on the TV until we diagnosed him. It was no small feat either as his symptoms were masked by heat stroke and a dog attack earlier in the week. Love my speaker.