r/blinkcameras

My blink front door cam isn't capturing everything and everyone at my place! Every time I try the live feed, it spins for nothing to happen! I'm not getting notifications either as my front door is at the entrance to my complex so there's a lot of foot traffic!
I've reset the module, added new batteries to the camera, reset my wifi and still having issues! ! moved the module closer to the front door but it's still not connecting.
Anybody have this issue?! On really thinking of moving to another camera company shortly if this continues!
I need help!!

It seems really old school to have to share a login and password and your spouse gets kicked out every couple months needing to log back in and get an MFA code sent to the other spouse's phone.
Given this is a security product this seems like a design flaw.
Unless I'm mistaken and there is a way to get around this.

Looking for suggestions based on commentor's favorable experience with specific products. What should I purchase, what should I avoid?

I have indoor mini cameras that I use for all my animals. I like that with the subscription i get motion alerts and that it saves videos. So any motion detected overnight when im sleeping, I can go back and see those clips in the morning.

Can you still do that with the sync module?

Hi all,

My Mini 2k is triggering on motion but then is only recording 1-3 second clips. Sometimes you can’t even see the person in the video.

I have tried

-Restarting device
-Restarting Router
-Removing and re adding device
-Turning motion detection on and off

I made sure Stop Early if Motion no longer detected is off.

Retrigger is 10 seconds
Clip length should be 10 Second
Sensitivity is 5

Can anyone help?

Thanks!

Someone gifted me this camera, because they couldn't return it and got a different one, otherwise I wouldn't be considering using it.

I am very digital privacy conscious and 100% not interested in having a livestream of inside my house in some cloud servers, no matter how secure they claim it is. I don't trust any of these cloud camera companies tbh.

And unfortunately, from what I've read, it looks like this model has no local storage option, and on the box it's telling me I need to download some app.

I don't want to. Is there any way to hack my own camera to store it locally and never set up an account on their app?

As the title notes, I've been using Blink cameras for two years now and this just started a week ago. I've got the Blink Plus plan.

For several of my cameras, they cover interior spaces, so when those spaces are occupied I don't just turn the cameras off in the app but cut the power completely so the cameras can't function.

Previously, I would get the app notification and that was it. Now Blink is sending me multiple emails saying "Some of your Blink devices are offline" and there's no unsubcribe option in the email itself and the in-app notification controls don't seem to give any option to turn off just the email notifications (I want the app notifications to continue as they have for the past two years).

Anyone know how to turn off the email notifications?

I mean, surely they didn't just opt me in to a non-cancelable, repeating communication without my permission - a corporation owned by Amazon obviously wouldn't do that, right? :|

I recently just bought two new ring doorbells from Amazon and currently I’m trying to sync them. I was able to successfully sync the sync module but when I put in the provided energizer lithium batteries, the doorbell blinks red 5 times and then dies. The app doesn’t detect the doorbell at all and I tired both doorbells I bought for the front and back door. I also tried different batteries and reinstalled them. Is this a hardware issue or am I’m doing this wrong, thank you in advance

Edit: found out the sync module doesn’t extend 15 feet wireless in my house, it’s working now

Fake Alerts from Blinc. I bought the year subscription for my doorbell and then got more cams for the back yard and side door. I went to upgrade the subscription and I can only upgrade to another yearly plan. I can't afford it 😭. I can afford the monthly but not a full year on a better plan. So now blinc keeps sending me alerts saying movement in the back yard and says I can't see it bc I don't have a plan for that cam. Little does blinc know, but, my bathroom window looks out into the back yard and several times it has told me after me sitting, doing my thing and seeing the back yard for 20 min that there is movement in the back yard and I can't see the clip bc I don't have the multiple camera plan. I was looking out the window and nothing, not even a butterfly had made any movement. Blinc is sending fake alerts to push me into the plan for more cams. Why would they risk exposure to this scam if I'm willing to pay the monthly? I just don't have the money to pay a year upfront which is less money for them anyway....? Make it make sense Blinc. Seriously, since the free trial of the plan that comes with the other cameras expired and I can only see doorbell clips, the movement caught by the side door and back yard cams has gone from zero to about 10 (unwatchable) clips a day per cam. 😂

- Blink doorbell 2k+.
- Only two months old.
- Subscribed to a yearly blink plan.
- Located approx 10 feet from the sync model.
- No wifi issues.
- It’s located in an indoor stairwell.

My blink doorbell is not sending me notifications to my phone. It did two months ago when we set it up and tested it, but I’ve seen Purolator come with packages and ring it, no notification. Just tried it 5 separate times now, one notification came through. So it’s not my phone settings.

Suggestions?

I’m an Apple user and have no problems. Trying to set up a system for my dad and he uses Android. I got him a few Outdoor 4 cameras and a few mini 2k’s along with the newest doorbell(not 2k). I decided to get him the Sync XR module just because it’s newer than the sync module 2 that I use and 1 location I might put a camera would probably use the XR option.

Everything is brand new. WiFi is a new modem/router and has been flawless for the month he’s had it. Batteries for outdoor cameras are new and I even plugged the cameras into a usb cable just to make sure it wasn’t a power issue.

Here’s the problems: The cameras will simply NOT be found by the app when scanning the QR or manually doing the S#. The app just keeps telling me it can’t find them despite literally sitting on top of the XR module 🤣

I reset the modem, unplugged the XR, restarted his phone, reinstalled the app, logged in and out….. I’ve done every one of these multiple times and the BEST I got was actually being able to install a regular Indoor Mini I previously had on my system and gave to him when I upgraded it. And even getting that camera to be seen took like 7-8 tries.

Everything I’ve done and all the problems I am having all point to the app being the issue. While at his house trying to get everything going I accessed my cameras just fine from my iPhone. This tells me it’s got to be the Android app ???

I just got this camera because my son who is autistic and cognitively delayed/ non verbal, developed a seizure disorder and I want to put the camera in his room to monitor for that. Should I get the subscription or is there anyway I can just use the free version? Thanks

Just bought the Costco bundle and am quite annoyed finding out that live view cannot be saved without a subscription and that I need to buy another component to save locally.

So before I return it, a question.

When I live view from the doorbell camera, do the other cameras continue to record locally? In other words, can a just install a second camera at my front door and save footage from that one? TIA

In the past I’ve had people cut the wires to my camera system and I’m worried that if I was to install blink cameras they would just knock them down where they pop off the brackets really easy, are there any locking mounts that anyone has tried?