The LED ring is one of the most distinguishable parts of Homey. Of course, it is beautifully designed, but it also provides valuable feedback if you interpret it correctly.
Loading animation
One of the most common animations of the LED ring is the loading animation, consisting of a part of the ring that is circling and growing/shrinking. This indicates Homey is busy doing something.
You can determine what Homey exactly is doing from the color of the animation.
White – Homey is processing your voice command.
Orange – Homey is generally loading or busy, for example, booting.
Blue – Homey is downloading something from the internet (like a new app).
Purple – Homey is updating itself at the moment, do not turn off the power. Alternatively, Homey has been powered on upside down – in such case, turn it off, position it upright, and turn it on.
Pulsating animation
Pulses are used as feedback to you that something happened. The color of the pulse corresponds with what happened or with the information provided.
Homey pulses green when something went right and red when something went wrong. Aside from that, apps may implement pulses in various colors. For instance, the weather app may show a yellow pulse when you ask for the weather and it's sunny outside.
You can determine what Homey exactly is doing from the color of the animation.
Orange – Homey is listening to your voice or talking back.
Yellow – Homey is ready to be installed, and you can now go to Homey Setup.
Red – Homey could not correctly start. Try the Recovery procedure.
Idling and Screensaver
By default, Homey shows a rainbow animation when it is idling, because it looks great. You can change the idle mode easily.
- Tap on
Settings→LED Ring. - You can set the Homey LED Ring to
Rainbow,Pulse,Off, orIdle.
Idle lets a selected app take over the LED ring in idle mode to ubiquitously show information, like the weather or your stock portfolio performance.
