Blink Video Doorbell & Echo Show - Setup and automatic live view 

o m g this was amazing. as someone who is using their blink as a baby monitor, the ability to see a live feed every time the baby "moves" is fantastic. thank you so much. seriously. so. much.

I called Amazon 4 times for help in vain. This video solves my doorbell problem. Thanks

Finally! A straight forward video to interact the two devices. Thanks a ton!

Many thanks, i bought a refurbished blink door bell and honestly it’s a 95% only a few scratches but not on the camera!! I also connected it with my echo show 15 and it works great thanks again..

Brilliant! Just got an email this morning with a special offer on the doorbell and am tempted but needed to know I could view it on my Echo Show. Thanks and subbed:)

It works! I also was having trouble with the second step -- not stopping after 20 seconds. I found it in one of the replies and am going to restate it. Say, "STOP (name of camera)" And it worked, at least for me it did. Thank you whoever found that out!

A lot of steps but I did setup the routine, haha I’ve been a computer tech for 30+ years and couldn’t get this set up without your help! Ty.

Just an extra little tip. If you use "show blink doorbell" the microphone won't be enabled, and you will have to touch the icon to talk. However if you use "answer blink doorbell" the microphone will be enabled automatically. The choice is yours.

Came from a Google Nest and Hub which basically did all this automatically so I was surprised I had to set this up with Alexa and Ring but I guess that's how they have to interface. Feels like there should be a more intuitive or guided way to do this when connecting the devices already but seems like this is the only way. Thanks a ton.

Why there is not a native way of setting this up is beyond me. But, THANK YOU for this super helpful video. It worked like a charm (and I would have never been able to figure it our otherwise). Cheers!

After much frustration, your video quickly had my new doorbell and Echo show 8 working like a champ, thanks for the informative video.

Thank you a million times, you've saved me days and days trying to figure it out.. Such a genius

This video was the perfect answer to my query. Thank you so much. I set up Alexa for auto show of the doorbell and I’ll set up the auto stop later. Thanks again!!

Great tutorial, received my Blink Doorbell, Module 2 & Echo Show 5 yesterday. All set up fine. Done those 2 "Routines" you so kindly put up and all work great, but I did notice even before doing the Routines, that when door bell is pushed, I get the notification on my phone, my 2 echo dots & of course the echo show 5. But when I simulate (not being at home) and go on the notification on my phone to see who is at the door and click on the image screen, it comes up with "System is busy, please wait". So after having the routine stop after 10 seconds and i click on image screen again, I can see live view but if there is a delivery person there, they would have gone by now. I know that the Ring lets you see live video straight away, even with the echo show 5 running, so it seems strange. Might send this back as not really any point. Thank you for your great tips👏👏👍👍

Thanks for your tutorial. Easy and straightforward to follow. Much appreciated!

Thank you this helped so much! I got mine to work, after adding the “blink!”. Also, I was able to create routines for multiple echo shows. Anyone who hasn’t got it to work make sure you change the name to blink! on both apps, but most importantly when creating the show me the blink! step.

Great tutorial! I ended camera display by adding a 2nd (wait 30) and 3rd (hide) actions to the initial routine to "show camera" instead of making an extra routine. "Hide garage" (cam named Garage) is the only command I could find that successfully closed the view. Home simply took me home and put the cam in a pic-in-picture display; it also bails out of whatever you were previously watching and simply takes you home if you use the command "home". If you configured any of your devices to use another name like "Echo" instead of "Alexa" then you have to setup the commands starting with it's name. "Echo, hide garage". The routine overview still shows "Alexa, Echo, hide garage" but it works.

Thankyou I just got gifted these for Xmas and it's made it so much easier to set up. Merry Christmas

You are a lifesaver, there is no way I could have set it up without your instructions. It would be good if you showed the list of your stored routines and the associated settings when completed so that we can confirm that we have setup the same routines in the same way. I say this because my doorbell is not turning off after 20 seconds and I don't know where I went wrong. Thanks again.

Thank you !!!! I would have never been able to figure this out myself!

That auto show you explained worked a treat, a bit a of a fast run through had to keep pausing, but all info there and as said works well. thanks. I had quite an issue setting up the Blink doorbell in the first place as it just wouldn't connect my WiFi router, did the blink install qr scan, found the DB using this, entered my WiFi password but it kept failing, so after a few attempts I logged into my router (Virgin hub 3) and added the Mac address in manually, as soon as the router stored this, it connected to the DB - I know this as Alexa said Blink doorbell found, if this helps anyone great.

So helpful and well presented without any filler. Thanks

Thanks. Was really helpful. Exactly what i was looking for

Excellent tutorial, thank you. Is there a routine or action that can disable this routine if, say, you're away from home (either manually set or automatically) - so that you can answer/view doorbell presses on your phone?

Thank you so much your video helped me so much but I didn't understand the last bit though, what does the stop action do exactly to stop the battery from draining? Thanks

Thank you! Saved me a ton of time trying to figure it out!

If someone's Echo show also says "Would you like to buy a bell?", I also had this problem, it's working again for me now. I did the following: Renamed the camera in the Blink app and Alexa (but with German terms because I'm German, lol): Blink App: Door Camera Alexa App: Door Camera Then I redid the "ring ring" routine: I re-inserted the newly named door camera above "under smarthome .. etc" Then changed the voice command command to "Show door camera". Then I deleted the "stop" routine. Then I tried the bell routine, now it works again. After that I did the "stop routine" again. It still works (at the moment until Amazon breaks everything again with updates lol).

So helpful - love added tricks at the end.

Brilliant great walk through and worked when I tested now to see in the real world

Thank you. The main reason I bought this device was to have just this functionality. I'm astonished it couldn't do this right out of the box!

Thank you. These instructions were very easy to follow and worked perfectly.

Hi Daniel, maybe you can help me. I make all setups but alexa is not automaticly opening the doorbell camera. When I go to alexa and say alexa open doorbell it open the camera. When I put a routine to do that alexa says this is not supported. I done everythign from start by deleting even the blink connection but it keeps saying in the routine window that alexa is not supporting the doorbell. But as i told you alexa see the doorbell get notifications and you can even open the camera. So something is really wrong.

Very helpful and easy to follow, thanks!

Thank you so much. Very easy using your tutorial. 🎉

I was able to get the blink doorbell to project to the Echo Show 8, however I am not able to get the doorbell to turn off with the last routine command. Ive followed the steps as shown in the video but it doesnt seem to work on my end

If this excellent Setup does not work for you (as it didn´t for me) go and try to change the 2nd routine "stop" to "close" ... this worked for me!

Excellent video, helped me all the way! Thank you!

Best video I've seen on the Blink Doorbell!

Do you need the sync module to see live video? I have mine wireless since I live in an apartment and would like to use my Echo show 5 if possible

This was VERY HELPFUL!!! Thank you!!

Thanks you made a very complicated thing simple 👍

Got it!!!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!! Don't know if I would have figured this out and probably would have returned the product.

So do you need the one with the sync module 2 for this? im looking to set up one of these for my mother and looking to buy blink door bell and an echo show , just want to get the correct stuff. also can it be set up on firestick for whenever that is in use? many thanks

Dan the man, thanks a lot it works with my Echo 8...Keep up the good job.

So do you need the module 2 in order for the pressing of the doorbell to get an automatic live feed to the show 5?

Extremely helpful, thank you!

Thanks Daniel, excellent tutorial.

Hi I have an echo show 3 doing this fine but I bought an echo show 8 so I can see the feed on both but options only allow me to pick one device. Do I need to make a new routine for the other device to have them both show the doorbell video?

Worked brilliantly! Thank you!!

Thank you for the thorough walk thru

Question, I called support and in order to view the live feed when the doorbell is rang on the Echo Show, you need a Sync Module for the Blink Video Doorbell?

Thank you. This was very helpful

I got it set up a few days ago and tested it thoroughly over the weekend, it is really not reliable. Half of the time not triggering the routine, and then half of triggers found problem in connecting to the blink camera.

Ton tuto m'a bien aidé ! merci

Might help others who are having problems...whenever I make changes to a routine or setting I have to unplug and plug back in my sync module for it to work .

Absolutely no way I would have figured that out. Thanks so much!

Daniel what alexa divide is compatible with blink door bell.I wan tonbuy one but I dont know which one

Followed all these instructions to the letter and it doesn’t work. I have tried this with several different RU-vid videos and none of them work. I get a message when I try to use the settings on the Alexa echo show and it says it does not support the live feed From the video device. I can’t help wondering if there are many different versions of the Alexa echo show marketed under the same name with the faulty ones simply being superseded with new ones. There is no way of knowing until you have bought the device whether you have one that works or not.

Omg thank you so much! Finally it works!

How did you get it to display full screen? I get a tiny window in the top corner of the screen, not the full screen unless I ask for a full screen. Yours just displayed full screen.

Thanks for this session. Very useful

Thank you made a very complicated thing simple 👍

Thanks, Dan. It worked on my Echoshow 5. RR

Can the Blink Doorbell notification be sent to both the Echo Show and the Blink Mini camera ..and several smartphones?

Nice! This is the level of information Amazon should be providing. Thanks a ton sub'd

Hello, i have a problem, since i got the blink doorbell it always says not responsive in the smart dashboard, i did this trick and when i set it says device is unresponsive when its working and all good... any tips?

Thank you so much. It really helped.

Brill thank you, I had to change my doorbell name back from Portal to the Waking World though lol. Sometimes my feed opens in a small window and then will only close manually (or wait 5mins for a camera error) which drains the battery. Is there a way of forcing full screen all the time?

Can I turn off Alexa when I’m home if I don’t want it to record me? And if I do that, will the video doorbell features you’ve outlined still work?

Really helpful. Thank you mate.

Thanks! Per l'italiano, rinominare il Blink Doorbell in "Citofono" sia sull'app Blink che in Alexa (Gestione dispositivi), nella routine il comando personalizzato sarà quindi "visualizza citofono".

hi Daniel , I had follow what you done , but my show 8 not auto turn off my blink doorbell after 20 sec , do you know what's the reason please

Super helpful! Thank you!

Thanks for the video. How can I undo the routine actions? My doorbell camera opens on echo, but keeps loading the image and then I get an error from echo. I'd rather undo and open the app by voice. How can I undo this action

Excellent excellent video. Thank you so much

I was unable to do it. Do I need the Blink Module in order to get live feed from the doorbell?

Oh my goodness. Thank you!! 😭💜

Thanks! that was really helpful.

Would it work if there was more than one echo show if creating multiple routines?

Do you need a blink module 2 for this to work? I don't have a module 2 and it does not work.

Hi. Rather than show me the online footage it asks if im trying to search for blink doorbells. Followed your steps, any advice?

Hi and thank you for your tutorial. It is working everything but the stop routine. Is not shutting the video until I ask Alexa by voice to stop. I've tried several times and I can't understand where is the problem. Any idea?

Will this work on the echo show 5 as its says blink doorbell doesn't support thay?

Great tip at the end!

Great video thanks. The onlt thng that did not work for me was the the turn off after 20 seconds. It just keeps paying the live feed. Must be someting I am missing

I'm in the UK (England) and it says the Blink SmartHome app is unavilable to me due to geographical restrictions??? I've got Alexa and Blink apps which both work but it wont let me download or enable the Blink SmartHome one...

Hey thanks for all the great tips you show. I did everything as and I still can't not see my doorbell video on my echo show 8 2nd gen or on my echo show 15, I'm only getting the notification that there is someone at the blink doorbell. I don't think it6the bell cause it's the second bell I get cause I sent the first one back. Can you please help me solve this problem?

Everything is setup like it shows on the video but when I rang the bell. It does not show or annouce on my echo gen 5 - nothing happens at all. Not sure why. I have selected to show it to Alexa device but still nothing.

Hello. Thank you for the video. However my Echo 8 2nd gen does not stop the live view after i set 15 secs. Please help. Tried your steps still not working

That worked for me, thanks!

I saw your video.. have spent hours trying to link the blink video door bell to the Alexa Echo Show 5 (2nd Gen) but when I go into Skills and search blink smarthome skill I get 25781 results but just can’t seem to find the blink smartphone . Request if you could help me in figuring this out.. Cheers

Any ideas on what to do when my echo show says “front door doesn’t support that?”

i thought i was an issue that i had with mine, because i had a ring doorbell which autonatically did this without me doing anything, it seems the blink doorbell doesn't have this integration out of the box. thanks for the solution

Hi ive opened alexa app, gone to games, typed blink doorbell. Loads of choices come up so ive gone with their icon. Launch, shows nothing on echo at all . Please advise.

Great video, thank you! The only downside I have experienced with this is that when the bell is pressed and the echo show automatically shows the feed, it can't be accessed by the blink app on the phone. Which isn't the end of the world when you're at home, but when you're out and about, you can't see who's at your front door on your phone as the echo show is streaming the feed so the blink app on the phone says system is busy. Makes the doorbel sort of redundant when you're away from home. Is there a way around this or is this something a user has to live with if they set up their echo show with blink doorbell in this way? To be completely honest, I'm surprised Amazon haven't made the echo show the blink display as automatically on doorbell press without having to set up a routine.

I have followed all instructions, a bit to fast explaining what to do, I had to keep pausing to, someone else commented on this to. Anyway my echo show 15 ( new echo show 2021 - 2022 ) will not exit the live view, it just stays on the echo show 15 screen until i say ' alexa exit ', if im away it will stay on all the time draining the blink doorbell batteries. Any ideas anyone, I reall need to get this sorted. Don't forget I have followed all these instructions.

I watched your video very informative. I setup my blink doorbell and echo show identical to how you demonstrated by when the doorbell is depressed echo announces that there is no device was found with the name of the doorbell. Can you help me.

Thanks so much, but why 2-3 days later, it will be collapse, when somebody press button, echo show 5 only say : ok, but no video ... any idea ?

Hey thanks for the video. I have one question. Everytime I say : Alexa show me the Blink doorbell” she says she doesn’t find any device with that name. What can I do?

thank you for the video. I can's seem to get the stop command to work. i have tried creating a the routine a couple of times but it just doesn't work. you don't hear alexa say okay. the show doorbell routine works fine. any ideas?