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Netgear Nighthhawk and Blink Camera local storage issue
I was having trouble getting the Blink Camera local storage feature to work on my Nighthawk network. All of the Blink features worked except for the ability to locally store recorded video clips to t...
I only thought to update this when I noticed the sync module device type was set to camera after I started troubleshooting. Hope this works for others.
I just read through some of those and those user seem to have the opposite problem (that want to isolate guest devices from each other and the primary network). I'm going to assume the following theory without the ability to confirm it.
- To many devices on my primary network prevented the camera and sync module from sending certain data (eventhough the network bandwidth was not congested)
- Putting the camera and sync module on a guest network that is only used by those devices meant that the only communications on this network would be between the devices that need to communicate with each other.
Not sure if this is correct but hope it helps someone in the future.
Robert
Hi All,
Just wanted to share my experience... it turns out my secondary router being set as wireless access point was preventing Blink sync mod from connecting. Kept getting error about network password, blah,blah,blah... I knew that was false.
Since my Blink was not connected to that router, I hadn't really thought if that configuration as being the culprit. After being unsuccessful with just about every suggestion here, I started backtracking steps. Once I reverted to standard router setting (not an access point), I was able to reconnect Blink sync mod.
I hope it helps someone!
Regards,
Verity7
Just wanted to share my experience... it turns out my secondary router being set as wireless access point was preventing Blink sync mod from connecting. Kept getting error about network password, blah,blah,blah... I knew that was false.
Since my Blink was not connected to that router, I hadn't really thought if that configuration as being the culprit. After being unsuccessful with just about every suggestion here, I started backtracking steps. Once I reverted to standard router setting (not an access point), I was able to reconnect Blink sync mod.
I hope it helps someone!
Regards,
Verity7
Nice detective work Sherlock.
A couple of questions:
- was the AP mode device running with a different SSID/password from the main router?
- when (if) you put the thing back to AP, did the Blink stay connected?
