Good day Konnected community. I have two Alarm Panel boards. Any ideas why the blue light on one of the boards continually blinks blue while the other does not? Seems odd and curious.
Thanks for any ideas!
The blue light will blink steadily when one of these two conditions are true:
- The device is not connected to the local network (no WiFi/Ethernet or no IP address)
- The Native Local API is enabled but no Native API client is connected
The Native API is used by Home Assistant and Hubitat integrations currently. If you do not have a local Home Assistant or Hubitat hub on the network, then nothing will connect to hte Native API and you’ll see the ever-blinking blue light. In addition to the blinking blue light, the device will reboot itself every 15 minutes because it’s trying to allow a Native API client to reconnect – that’s not ideal.
If you’re not using Home Assistant or Hubitat you should disable the Local Native API in the device firmware settings to prevent this behavior. In the Konnected app go to the device > Settings > Local Native API > and un-check the enabled toggle.
Thanks for the reply, Nate. I am using Hubitat so API is enabled. It seems odd that one blinks blue periodically and the other does not. The blinking blue is not constant; it is intermittent. Could this indicate a network issue? I am on a new Netgear Nighthawk CAX80.
Any feedback is appreciated.
-peter-
Ah, I see. In normal operation mode, the blue light is a status indicator. It’ll blink any time there’s a sensor state change. So if you have motion sensors on that board and people are walking around, you’ll see it blink a lot more often than a board that’s only monitoring doors and windows.
Got it - thanks for clarifying!
I unchecked the local native API as directed. Unfortunately, when I tried to do the firmware update it failed to compile. Tried a couple of times. Same result. This is on 12 zone pro. Any suggestions?
Third time’s a charm. Fireware updated, blue light stopped blinking.
Hi, Dave - just curious… Why did you perform a firmware upgrade? Thanks.
-peter-
After I disabled my native API, I saved and continued. The required step after that is to build for the new firmware update in order for the change to take place. The blue light blinking didn’t stop until I did that.
I should mention I’m using Smartthings for my home manager.
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