Turn off Status Light on new Indoor Cam

I thought the mandatory 2-step verification solved the ‘hacking’ issue? I had heard the only times that another person controlled a cam is when the ‘hacker’ knew the password.

I resorted to using a small piece of black electrical tape, carefully positioned utilizing tweezers only over the Blue light (so that it doesn’t cover the IR light or Motion-detector sensor that are above & below the Blue light).

Worked for me too on both nest and ring.

If you think the blue light is bad … the entire spotlight on my new Spotlight Cam activates every time I walk past, despite the camera being disarmed, the lights off, colour night vision off. Someone has just started a thread about this issue !

Unbelievable response from ring. We had guests staying and when they went in a room off limits they were snooping, until after 10 seconds they saw the light and then went out. Clearly they were up to no good but the light put them off so we couldn’t see the full intention of their actions - which has raised more questions than it answers.

ludicrous, will now have to put duck tape over them - please fix this absurd situation ring or I am sending mine back to Costco for a full refund.

I really don’t get the point of not being able to turn off the blue light. I’m assuming it’s for privacy reasons but anyone trying to “spy” on someone else can just put a piece of black tape over the light and done. So it’s a pointless “security” feature that just makes the user find some jerryrigged workaround. Plus there’s a valid reason to want to turn the light off other than not alerting people that they’re being recorded. If you place the camera looking out a window, like I have, then the blue light reflects off the glass creating an annoying blue glare. I solved the problem by placing the aforementioned piece of black electric tape over the light but there’s really no valid reason for me to have to do that. Give us the option to turn the light off!

+1 for having an app option to switch the blue light off.
We’ve got 4 Ring cameras, pay the full yearly subscription, yet Ring won’t put an option in that is exceptionally easy to program and available even on budget security cameras.
Totally amateur security.

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This needs to happen ASAP, @Ring team please release an update that allow us to turn off that annoying light. I have one in my new born room and every time she moves it comes up, and that makes her wake up and start crying…

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I think I should have the ability to decide in my own home.

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Really need this feature. Using the cam in my toddlers room and the blue light keeps waking him up. Will tape it, but it is very annoying.

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Such an obvious question and I can’t believe they didn’t think of that ?

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Oh, they (Ring) thought about it and decided ‘privacy’ of thieves was far more important than security. It’s a ‘woke’ thing.

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It’e ridiculous that a bright blue light flashes from a security camera when activated. I guess they just want you to buy new cameras when the robber quickly sees and destroys the cameras.

So I bought the “ring indoor camera” after searching on Amazon for a toddler monitior, I don’t like cheap tat, nor do I like the no-named branded ones as I don’t trust them, and I’ve had a few over the years which promise the world but perform badly and are very tricky to setup.

The number one problem is, if he moves at night, or we check on him on the live view, the blue light illuminates his room and wakes him up, or… prevents him from sleeping again.

So frustrated after paying £50+ on this and this very basic design flaw has no workaround, is it for privacy reasons perhaps for AirBnB type scenarios? I don’t know. I’m actually thinking about opening up the device and soldering the LED off.

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I bought two Ring indoor cameras to replace some crappy cameras from China, but at least they had the ability to turn off the status light. This has been an issue with Ring cameras for a lot of people for a very long time. Unbelievable.

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This blue light problem has been complained about for over a year and still no fix. Pre-Amazon Ring might have fixed this, but post-Amazon Ring doesn’t give. Amazon, Google, FaceBook, and Twitter are all too busy trying to out “woke” each other to care what their think about anything.

Blink owned by Amazon makes cameras that have a software feature to turnoff the blue light as the Blink mini or have a switch in the camera to turn it off such as the Blink XT2. So I believe the decision to not have this feature falls directly to the Ring lawyers. I highly recommend the Blink mini for indoors.

I agree with everyone here, we need to be able to turn this off!!!

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Turn this off please… its really annoying

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After buy 6 of these I find the blue led intrusive and counter-security minded. Anyone scoping the premises will certainly make note of the camera beacon “I am here” and know to avoid or disable the cameras on their return visit.

Seeing so many posts on this, it’s clear that Ring will not be accommodating. Trying to rationalize why this control is not left to the consumer leads me to only one answer - Ring is acting in their best interest, not yours. With this in mind, the real question is what other Ring interests will be pursued above and beyond the consumers?

This is the unforutnately dicotomy we face with these cloud based technologies. Ultimately, we can only push for and support open solutions which are not muddied by commercial interests which really put consumer needs last. Blue led’s have nothing to do with privacy. For now, electrical tape and support for community sourced solutions seems to be the best solution available.

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Agreed. Black tape is such a poor solution.

The option to disable the blue light is simple to provide and then upto the user to choose. Who is it for otherwise - it’s not the intruder!

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