The status logo colours
A small DashKeep logo appears in the bottom-right corner of the camera’s screen, drawn over the live view. Its tint shows the camera’s state at a glance, without opening any menu. The default state, with the location marked:
Cameras without a screen, like the VS1, never show the logo. See cameras without a screen for how to read the same information on those models.
The colours
Section titled “The colours”White: Idle
Section titled “White: Idle”The vehicle isn’t moving and the camera isn’t recording. White is the normal state while parked: before a trip, at a stop, or overnight. Nothing is wrong. The camera is on and ready, it just has nothing to do.
Green: Driving, recording, and located
Section titled “Green: Driving, recording, and located”Green only appears while the car is moving, the camera is recording, and it has a recent GPS fix. Everything is working exactly as it should while you drive.
Magenta: Moving but not recording
Section titled “Magenta: Moving but not recording”The car is moving and GPS is live, but the camera isn’t recording video. Check that the camera’s own recording isn’t paused.
Purple: Recording but no GPS
Section titled “Purple: Recording but no GPS”The camera is recording, but it has lost its GPS fix. Footage still uploads, but trips lose the map and speed data until the fix comes back. This happens indoors, in tunnels, and in dense cities.
Yellow: Parked outside your home zones
Section titled “Yellow: Parked outside your home zones”You’re parked outside every home zone you configured. Your zones mark where a known Wi-Fi network is in range. There’s none here, and DashKeep won’t use Wi-Fi outside a zone. Uploads wait until the camera is back in a zone. Yellow isn’t an error. It shows the reason before you have to wonder why nothing uploads.
Red: The camera needs attention
Section titled “Red: The camera needs attention”Red means the agent couldn’t start: most often, the dashkeep.dat configuration is missing from the memory card after a format or a card swap. The camera shows a restore screen with a QR code. Scan it to learn how to restore DashKeep on the device, or see Download to SD card, advanced to rebuild the file yourself. The camera keeps recording either way.
The Wi-Fi icon
Section titled “The Wi-Fi icon”While the camera uses Wi-Fi, a small Wi-Fi symbol appears above the corner logo. Its colour shows the state of the connection. There is no text or panel; upload progress lives on the dashboard, not on the camera screen. See How an upload starts for when these sessions happen.
The symbol blinks once a second in every state except connecting.
Orange: Connecting
Section titled “Orange: Connecting”The camera is turning its Wi-Fi on and joining a network. This is the one state that stays steady instead of blinking.
Green: Online
Section titled “Green: Online”The camera is connected and working. While footage uploads, green means the transfer is running. The rest of the time it means the connection is holding: always-on Wi-Fi, a held home connection, or the scan-to-view hotspot between sessions.
White: Retrying
Section titled “White: Retrying”A session failed, and the camera is waiting to try again on its own. Nothing for you to do. A flaky link recovers here; the icon turns red only if the problem won’t fix itself.
Red: Failed
Section titled “Red: Failed”A session failed for a reason the camera can’t resolve by retrying, such as a full cloud storage quota. Clear the problem and the next session clears the icon.
Blue: Live view
Section titled “Blue: Live view”The camera is streaming live video to the dashboard. It flashes while the stream starts and goes solid once video is flowing.
The Wi-Fi signal icons
Section titled “The Wi-Fi signal icons”The network tab in the advanced menu shows a Wi-Fi symbol next to each network in range. Its colour is the signal strength of that network:
| Colour | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Green | Strong signal |
| Yellow | Medium signal |
| Orange | Weak signal |
| Brown | The camera can’t use this network |
If the logo is missing
Section titled “If the logo is missing”The logo appears whenever the agent runs. No logo at all means the agent isn’t running, and the camera works as a plain dashcam without any DashKeep features. This can happen if the install didn’t complete, or if the manufacturer’s own firmware update overwrote the DashKeep patch. Use the Reinstall DashKeep button on the device settings page to fix it. The walkthrough is on Reinstall and update.
A quick table
Section titled “A quick table”| Colour | Meaning |
|---|---|
| White | Idle, not moving, not recording |
| Green | Driving, recording, GPS live |
| Magenta | Moving, but not recording |
| Purple | Recording, but no GPS fix |
| Yellow | Parked outside your home zones, uploads paused |
| Red | Startup failure, usually a missing configuration file |
And the Wi-Fi icon:
| Colour | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Orange | Connecting to a network |
| Green | Online: uploading, or holding the connection |
| White | Session failed, automatic retry underway |
| Red | Session failed, the camera has stopped retrying |
| Blue | Live view streaming to the dashboard |