Controlling the light on your Mini 2

You can manually operate the spotlight on your Blink Mini 2 camera on the Home screen of the Blink app by tapping the More buttonSettings iconin the lower-right corner in the thumbnail image for your camera. Then tap to turn the light on or off.

The spotlight will stay lit until it’s manually turned off or automatically shut off based on your Timeout after Manual Activation in your Lighting Settings. It can be set to automatically shut off after 30 seconds (default setting) or up to 10 minutes.

Your light will also turn on when motion is detected at night. This feature can be turned on by enabling Motion Activation in Lighting Settings. This can be set to automatically shut off after 30 seconds (default setting) or up to 10 minutes after motion activation.

The spotlight will only turn on if it’s in a dark area. It doesn’t turn on when the camera detects daylight or too much ambient light in the scene.

Note: When the system is armed and the spotlight is enabled in motion detection, the spotlight may trigger when changes in the scene are detected. This may not trigger a motion clip to be recorded if our motion detection algorithm doesn’t detect enough motion to trigger a clip.

Learn more about your Blink Mini 2 camera settings.

You can also manually control the spotlight in the Live View screen by tapping the Turn On and Turn Off buttons, which turn blue when pressed. 

The light will stay on for the duration of the Live View unless it’s manually turned off.

Learn more about how to access Live View.


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