Ok so there has been lots of talk about the charging light. Yes we made a change on 1.0.6 to make it clearer but that obviously hasn't worked.......
Poly is always on when connected to the charger but if Mojo is switched off we shut down most of the services - to be clear this doesn't mean Poly is charging the battery all the time.
The battery will charge up normally then the charge circuit will switch off.
We changed from showing white whilst charging then blue when fully charged as we wanted to be clear that the charger was still connected and supplying power.
This way you know that your 'smart' charger has not switched off as white light means power connected.
We didn't want to flash the light when the battery is charged as on Mojo this indicates a charging fault and could easily be confused.
I'm open to other suggestions if you want to post them and we will see what we can do.
I think first of all if you are going to change the behaviour of the charging light, it will be inconsistent with the way the Mojo's own charging light behaves independently (white = charging, off = charged, and you are not going to change this on the Mojo because it can't be firmware updated) - I'm ok with a change on the PolyMojo combo, because my Poly will be attached to the Mojo 99% of the time anyway, and I am going to accept a more intuitive charge light pattern.
My proposed idea is, the simplest way to indicate a charging fault would be to flash the red LED quickly - this will grab the user's attention.
When the PolyMojo is charging, I would flash their respective LED's alternating between the current charge level and white:
- White/Red (flashing) 0-25% charged
- White/Amber (flashing) 25-50% charged
- White/Green (flashing) 50-75% charged
- White/Blue (flashing) 75-95% charged
- Solid White is fully charged, but with charger still connected
This way I know roughly how much charge is left on each individual component (Poly and Mojo) if I don't have the luxury of charging them each to 100%, for example I'm in an airport terminal waiting for my flight and only have 30 minutes to charge them, and I want to know how long I can use them.
If the LED is off it means the charger is not connected or some smart charger has turned itself off and it is not charging. Similarly if a less than 2A charger is connected to the PolyMojo, and only the Mojo is being charged, the Poly light should be off to indicate that it is not charging.
If the charger is not connected, and the PolyMojo is on, they will be using the same light patterns as before, with the solid colours indicating battery level and connectivity.
The above is just my idea of course, and the way I would expect things to work and show in the most intuitive way.