MacBook Pro - Built In Isight qualm

proodaman · proodaman #1 (**permalink**)

03-30-2007, 03:01 PM

Hey, I'm new here - owner of a first gen macbook pro. I love the built-in Isight and I think it could make for a cool little spy device. I'm using a shareware of security spy, and it's working out pretty well to keep track of my sneaky roommates. Anyways, my one beef with this setup is that I cannot turn off my green Isight indicator light. It just kinda gives it away if anyone actually looks at the green light.

I have searched these forums and google scrutinously for a solution and noone seems to have figured it out. Short of blacking it out with a little dab of paint, does anyone have any technical solutions?

Thanks.:dive:

proodaman · proodaman #2 (**permalink**)

04-02-2007, 07:43 PM

/bump

Guess there's no manual override?

Kash · Kash #3 (**permalink**)

04-02-2007, 08:03 PM

From everything I've read, it seems as though everyone states the green light as a downside to using the iSight for spying.

Looks like black paint it is (unless somebody else has done some in-depth study into this and actually know how to turn it off).

Brown Study · Brown Study #4 (**permalink**)

04-02-2007, 09:07 PM

Duct tape? I fixes my car.

macAttack · macAttack #5 (**permalink**)

04-02-2007, 09:26 PM

take it apart and disconnect the led.

On second thought......

Follow · Follow #6 (**permalink**)

04-02-2007, 09:53 PM

I found this cool program called ialertu. Its like a car alarm for you macbook. It works with your infrared remote. If anyone tries to do anything to your mac an alarm will go off and it will take a picture. Oh yeah, and the green light does not go on. So far it has only caught my cat tho. lol

dekan · dekan #7 (**permalink**)

04-02-2007, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Follow

I found this cool program called ialertu. Its like a car alarm for you macbook. It works with your infrared remote. If anyone tries to do anything to your mac an alarm will go off and it will take a picture. Oh yeah, and the green light does not go on. So far it has only caught my cat tho. lol

how awesome is that? :-)

proodaman · proodaman #8 (**permalink**)

04-03-2007, 09:53 PM

hehe, thanks for the input - I figured as much. For the record, I'm going to use latex paint so I can easily pick it out if I ever desire to have a green light again.

That Ialertu program is pretty cool, but I dig the motion sensitive goodness of Securityspy - plus the demo does everythign I want it to.

Thanks again guys, I'll update this if I ever find a way to override that light.

macAttack #5 (permalink)
Member Since: Apr 23, 2005 Location: Cape Cod, MA Posts: 1,509 Mac Specs: iBook	04-02-2007, 09:26 PM take it apart and disconnect the led. On second thought...... SpeedTest
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proodaman #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Mar 30, 2007 Posts: 7	03-30-2007, 03:01 PM Hey, I'm new here - owner of a first gen macbook pro. I love the built-in Isight and I think it could make for a cool little spy device. I'm using a shareware of security spy, and it's working out pretty well to keep track of my sneaky roommates. Anyways, my one beef with this setup is that I cannot turn off my green Isight indicator light. It just kinda gives it away if anyone actually looks at the green light. I have searched these forums and google scrutinously for a solution and noone seems to have figured it out. Short of blacking it out with a little dab of paint, does anyone have any technical solutions? Thanks.:dive:
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proodaman #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Mar 30, 2007 Posts: 7	04-02-2007, 07:43 PM /bump Guess there's no manual override?
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Brown Study #4 (permalink)
Member Since: Mar 11, 2004 Location: Winnipeg Posts: 1,964 Mac Specs: G4 — Tiger and OS 9	04-02-2007, 09:07 PM Duct tape? I fixes my car.
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Follow #6 (permalink)
Member Since: Feb 04, 2007 Location: NYC Posts: 18 Mac Specs: 15" MBP 2.16 GHz	04-02-2007, 09:53 PM I found this cool program called ialertu. Its like a car alarm for you macbook. It works with your infrared remote. If anyone tries to do anything to your mac an alarm will go off and it will take a picture. Oh yeah, and the green light does not go on. So far it has only caught my cat tho. lol
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proodaman #8 (permalink)
Member Since: Mar 30, 2007 Posts: 7	04-03-2007, 09:53 PM hehe, thanks for the input - I figured as much. For the record, I'm going to use latex paint so I can easily pick it out if I ever desire to have a green light again. That Ialertu program is pretty cool, but I dig the motion sensitive goodness of Securityspy - plus the demo does everythign I want it to. Thanks again guys, I'll update this if I ever find a way to override that light.
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