Embrava Blynclight Mini - Busy Light for The Office (Designed for Monitors and laptops)

With the major shift in the world to remote working and tele-commuting, it's been much more difficult to achieve work-life balance. This little color changing light takes the guesswork out of my schedule for my kids. I wish I bought it sooner, as they are now loving knowing if they can enter the office freely, ok to knock if you need something small, or if they can only knock in an emergency. Everyone who works from home needs one of these! I push a longer micro USB cable on it an mounted it just outside my office door. Thrilled with its functionality!

Nice to provide an indication of my status to coworkers walking by. The size is perfect to stick on the corner of the monitor. The brightness is not obnoxious in the office. Setup is a breeze. My only gripe is the adhesive that comes on the mount isn’t the best but it hasn’t fallen yet. Overall it does the job.

Works for letting others know you are busy, on a call, or in tele/video conference. Since working from home is the new normal, this is a very efficient method to let others in the house know your status. It connects with you calendar, so is pretty easy once set up. Took a little to get it set up properly and had to get permissions to get drivers installed on work computer, but once set up it is a nice little notification indicator.

This seems pretty awesome and exactly what I need to let my kids and wife know that I'm on a call or busy without them opening my office and interrupting my work.For Microsoft Teams, it requests permissions to read your profile and status. So, for it to work, it does require the company exchange/office 365 admin to approve it for use.Bottom line, if you are working for a medium to large company with a security department and not just a "computer guy" you probably will need to go through the hoops of asking for a security policy exception or hope that your call center already uses these.If you are your own admin or boss and can just make it happen, this thing is probably awesome.

If you plan on using with Microsoft Teams don't waste your money. We tried a few of these for our business and the behavior with Teams is very sporadic and unreliable. Went through all the recommendations from Embrava support before we gave up.

Works great, these are perfect for our office as everyone has dual monitors and you can't see their face most of the time. This will help avoid inturpuptions especially as headsets become smaller and alot harder to see if someone is on a call. Worth it!!!!

As of 21 Dec 2023 there are two places where it states this is battery powered (see screenshot). My goal was to have a portable Blynclight that would tell me when a meeting was starting while I was in another room.Other than the false advertising, works well with Microsoft Teams if it's plugged in.

This Embrava Blynclight does exactly what I was hoping: provides a visual indication automatically when I am on a call or video conference.I recently began working primarily from my home office, with many video and audio conferences, and my family did not know whether or not I was on a call. This light synchs automatically with Skype and with my work phone to show when I’m busy. Alternatively, I can manually activate the colors to signal my them whether or not she can come into the office. The cord is 3 feet long, and I combined it with a 12 foot USB extension that allows me to place the light on the door of my office.My wife is very pleased because it takes the guesswork out.