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coolbreeze2

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I saw Blink Outdoor Camera, a product made by Amazon, on sale inexpensively for one day only on Amazon. So, I purchased it without doing any research. I think I'm going to regret I did. I have followed the instructions perfectly and can not get the darn thing up and running using neither my iPhone nor iPad. I've searched YouTube and no one is trying to pair the Blink with iPhone nor iPad.

I don't know if it's the fact that my devices run beta or is it that thing where Amazon and Apple won't play nicely together like the situation with Prime Video app not working on Apple devices.

During installation it hangs at "Contacting Blink Servers". So, it could be more than one issue happening. I have no idea.

Has anyone successfully gotten this camera up and running using Apple device? How did you do it?
 
I’ve had blink cameras forever. If you have a device running ios 14 try setting it up on that first and then login to the app on the ios 15 device after its all setup. My guess is it’s because your running a beta is causing some issues with setup.
 
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