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XR1000 & Blink Security Cameras
Hello - I am looking for advice on the XR 1000 router in connection with Blink Security Cameras. Under Device Manager - Network Map, I have discovered the 4 cameras and corrected the type of equipmen...
Hello everyone
Happy to advise this forum & those who opined on the issue we were encountering with the Blink cameras. After 2 hours on phone with NetGear tech support & 2 hours on phone with Blink tech support, the problem was the Blink Sync Monitor. Defective & once replaced, issue was resolved.
Many thanks - Happy Canada Day to the canucks July 1 & Fourth of July to USA residents.
Thanks for this - I now have all the devices named by location and located the Sync Manager. My devices table has many entries. To be truthful, there are two Iphones, two Ipads, 4 Fire Sticks, an ADT alarm system with one camera, 3 Smart Home Devices for lights. There was an option to remove offline devices. If deployed, will another device (say laptop) using WIFI that has been off for a week be added to list. Again many thanks.
If the devices that are offline are your devices then don't delete them. I have fixed IP addresses assigned to things like a laptop which I really only use when traveling, a Fire TV Stick 4K that I also only use when traveling, and a GPS that stays in my Jeep, oh and the Alpine stereo in the Jeep itself. I have them assigned fixed IP addresses so I know what they are and can name them for those times when I do bring them inside for an update prior to a trip, occasionally checking for an update for the GPS, and even updating the firmware/software in the Jeeps stereo sitting in the garage. Everything here has a fixed IP address and a name, even friends and relatives phones who visit often. So the only things that ever show up as "unknown device" is when I have some random person visit who doesn't visit often enough to merit assigning a fixed IP address for their phone, those I will occasionally delete. If I go to the Device Manager tab some evening and see something that says unknown device, and I don't have any visitors and no one has visited since I last deleted the unknown ones, then I know something unauthorized might be connecting.
Again, thanks. How do I affix an IP address to the cameras & Link Module
Many thanks!
For your Sync Modules just find them and enter their MAC address like adding anything. For Cameras if you want to give them unique names, you have to go to the Device Manager screen and they will all show offline, but if you then go on your phone and hit PLAY on one of them to watch a "Live View", you will notice that one camera will move to the Online side (and only as long as your watching the live view) and that is your opportunity to click on it, give it a unique name, and copy the MAC address and go back to the Settings > LAN and add it to the fixed IP address table. What I do is in the Device Manager view I just click on the MAC address, pull it over to highlight it, select copy, then go to the Settings / LAN Setup and choose ADD and paste the MAC address. If your adding brand new cameras the MAC address is actually printed in the back of the camera and you can just take a pic with your phone or enter it as your setting up the camera but in my case the cameras are all already mounted and it was the XR1000 router that was new so I had to do it that way. Took me maybe 15 minutes to do 27 cameras. And when your done be sure to go to advanced settings > administration > Backup Settings and save yourself a copy of your routers settings.
Also - the device manager was cleaned up so that now I know every device. Not a lot of them - 21 in total using WIFI, with more than half turned off & not using WIFI. This AM, all four cameras were functional. 6 hours later, all showing as offline.
I operate will 100 MB download cable internet which has upload of 11 MB. Cable modem checked out OK.
That's strange they'd just go offline unless your Sync Modules and/or cameras are not getting good connections to each other and to the WIFI with the only other thought being if something else nearby is transmitting on the same frequency and knocking them offline.
Thanks. We do have neighbour who has Blink cameras. We were away for 43 days to SW USA and could check the cameras & clips using 5G mobile phones. Arrive home to Atlantic Canada - they appear on 5G phones early in AM, then go offline within 1-2 hours.
