Blinkmore often than not makes great home security cameras, but if a Blink camera starts flashing a dark-green light and isn't working, it can quickly get a nuisance. Smart domicile engineering science is more than prevalent today than it'due south e'er been. In that location are smart doorbells, smart lights, smart cameras, smart speakers, etc. Leading much of the smart home charge is Amazon. Between its own Echo speakers/displays and home security options from its Ring and Blink brands, there'southward a good take chances nigh smart homes have at to the lowest degree one Amazon gadget in the mix.

Despite its dominance in the smart home space, that's not to say Amazon smart domicile gadgets are perfect. In fact, no smart home device is perfect! Digital assistants become questions wrong, smart lights terminate responding, Wi-Fi issues come out of nowhere — the listing goes on. This is also true of Blink cameras.

One of the most common Blink camera issues happens when a green light on the camera starts flashing for no reason. The camera can exist working like normal, and so out of nowhere, its built-in LED starts flashing green. If a Blink camera has a solid dark-green light, that means the camera is connected to its local and net networks without any problem. If that green light starts flashing, all the same, it ways there's an issue with the photographic camera's cyberspace connection.

What You Can Exercise To Set up A Flashing Green Light

There are a few unlike reasons why a Blink camera would lose its internet connection and wink green. The virtually likely reason is that there's a problem with your abode Wi-Fi network. Check your router to verify that other connected devices are working, and make sure at that place isn't a local outage in your area. If everything's working there, information technology could be that the Blink photographic camera is too far away and has a weak signal. Since this issue mainly applies to the Blink Mini wired camera, double-bank check that information technology'due south close enough to your domicile Wi-Fi router (ideally within 150 feet of information technology).

If the Blink camera is within an ideal range to the router but the light is still flashing dark-green, some other possibility is that there's an outage with Blink'due south servers. Blink cameras are constantly communicating with Blink'south network, and if there's an consequence on that end, the cameras won't work equally intended. To see if there'south a Blink outage, the fastest and easiest way is to visit the DownDetector website. Blink should appear on the homepage if plenty users accept reported issues, or you can manually search 'Blink' in the search bar and check that way. If it appears that there's an ongoing outage, you'll but need to wait for Blink to gear up things on its terminate.

But what should you exercise if there isn't a Glimmer outage? In this case, users may need to reset their Blink camera and re-add together information technology to their Wi-Fi network. For the Blink Mini camera (which about unremarkably has this issue), press and concur the reset button on the bottom of the camera for 10-xv seconds (or until yous see a solid greenish + flashing blueish lite). Once those lights announced, open the Blink app and fix the camera as y'all did before. If the flashing greenish light upshot persists after all of this, information technology's likely that there's a hardware issue that can only be solved by contacting Glimmer's customer support.

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