Blink Home Monitor App Reviews

I’ve used many brands of cameras in my line of work so I know what’s utter garbage, and what isn’t. These are alright for simple home use. The quality of the video both during the day, and at night are sufficient. You can clearly see the persons face, and that is all that really matters. They have always detected motion well. They were decently priced. I don’t love that they require an email, and a phone number. Pick one. It just feels extra intrusive. No support team needs both on file. I also do not love that the notifications are hit or miss. I have everything set up with my preferences in both my phone settings, and the app settings yet most of the time I do not get any. So that means I have to open the app to see if anything is captured. Which makes the live video mic basically useless. If you want to relay a message verbally via the camera to family when they enter the home you will likely not be notified of its detecting motion. If you want to shout at an intruder that you’re watching them, also useless. That is a fix that is completely on the app end seeing as my notifications work for every other app I use. So overall a decent camera, easy to set up, but crappy on the notification end. If that could be fixed I would say this would be a pretty great system.

Update 6/2/22: an automatic SW update a couple days ago seemed to have vastly improved some of the situations I described below. So I feel obliged to update my review as well. Most notably, the USB access without the cloud subscription is working flawlessly for a couple days now. Before, it will record for only a second, or shows no picture at all, or fail to let me access the recording, everyday. Now, it’s reliable and reasonably quick to let me review all the recordings. And the SW just seems much less buggy going from one use to another. So, together with the great hardware, I now consider this a good product worth recommending. — End update. It takes quite a long time between the motion trigger (which is only seconds after actual motion ) and the ability to see with the camera, either through real-time view or waiting for the recording to be ready for view. It feels like half a min to a minute, so most likely I’ll miss whatever triggered the camera unless it’s somebody ringing the doorbell. After the initial cloud access expired, I’m supposed to be able to use my local drive and view the clips the same way. But it was even slower, and so far with only 30% success rate, some attempts causing the system to fault out in different ways. In today’s world, this is unacceptably buggy, for a software of this complexity. And it makes the whole product sub-par, even though I think the cameras and their installation are great.

First, I see a ton of not so great reviews. I knew exactly what I was getting when we purchased multiple cameras for our home indoor/outdoor and the doorbell. The price point for this system and what it has to offer is amazing for what you get. It’s not a top notch system by any means, but it doesn’t the job and the video quality is great in my opinion. If you want something seamless without any learning curve and high dollar user friendly, then you should look into more expensive systems that give you that. We utilize the indoor blink mini for a toddler room, a indoor blink camera for a nursery camera, 3 outdoor cameras, and the blink doorbell. We also have the plus yearly subscription. The system automatically arms every night and turns off in the morning with a schedule I set. And I can easily arm the system while we are away from our home. The talk feature through he app is great, way better than I expected honestly. Yes you have to replace batteries in battery operated cameras, batteries are not in short supply at my home therefore this does not bother us. The image quality on the app and the overall live stream is perfect for what we need. I also have great things to say about the motion detection notifications that come to my phone and my husbands phone.

The first few days when I had this it worked very well using the ringer and letting my Alexa announce that there is someone here now the app is very awful and it need some working on. Whenever there is motion detected on the gate and I click to see you can never know if you’re really gone see what’s happening or you’ll just be on an infinite loading screen and miss on whatever was happening outside of your door. The only time you get to actually see thought the camera is when someone is ringing the doorbell or when there is motion detected why can’t we see whats happening outside whenever we feel like it? If it’s because of the battery dying too quickly we’ll thats my problem that’s why you give warnings ahead of time. The worse part is that videos end too quickly when they don’t have to, I got a video of a delivery man ringing my door bell and then 2 seconds later the video cut off now I can’t see where he left my package due to the video cutting off when it didn’t need to, I know I left the record time to the Max amount of time it lets me and I turned “end video early” OFF so I don’t see any reason why my recordings end early whenever it feels like it. The motion sensor is very odd when it comes to recording, somehow it is able to detect a small cat walking on the floor Feet away from my door but sometimes it can’t even detect a person walking towards my door until they’ve already reached it.

Blink cameras come with a free trial of their cloud backup service. For some systems the cloud service is not required and videos can be saved with the HUB’s memory port by using a USB drive. So, I thought I would see how things change after the free trial expires and find out what’s different. Today I went out in front of our cameras to see how they perform and here’s what I found. First of all I noticed that the cameras respond differently. How? The camera on the front of our house stopped detecting movement in the driveway and near the house and, instead, detects every car that drives by - even though those zones are deactivated. The notifications for movement detection are often very delayed or non-existent. The list of videos no longer has an orange dot next to the new videos that haven’t been watched yet so you can’t tell which ones are new and yet-to-be watched. The talk button still works but the sound doesn’t come out of the speaker for a minute or two - so the majorly delayed two-way communication makes that feature virtually unusable. Checking the live-view results in a spinning curser as the system struggles to produce the video. Overall the system is very slow to respond and sometimes doesn’t react at all. So, yes, the cloud service isn’t required but my analysis shows that, without the service, performance is greatly reduced and sometimes the cameras just don’t respond at all. ☹️

I bought 4 outdoor cameras because they were wireless and easy to setup and install. I didn’t want to go through the headache of hiring a professional to hardwire everything. So from that perspective, great idea. Problem is I find this system full of issues. Overall, it’s not dependable. Capturing thumbnails sometimes works, but most often doesn’t. The latency of live view is terrible, probably 10-15 seconds, and that’s if it works. My cameras are within 20feet of my router, and my sync module is literally next to the router so the latency can’t be because of my network which is a 300MB download. Sometimes the motion sensor will trigger but the camera won’t turn on in time And completely miss the action. Live stream audio cuts out frequently. Etc etc etc. When it works, it’s great. But there’s constant issues. I find that it doesn’t work more often than it works. Even night mode is patchy, image quality is great on one camera, but terrible of the other two. I also think the App is behind others like SimpliSafe. I’ll keep playing around with it, but it doesn’t always work and that’s annoying. Oh, and this is pretty annoying, but the whole system is sort of useless unless you sign up for their cloud service which will cost you $100 / year if you have more than one device. Whereas SimpliSafe still allows you to review and store video clips without their cloud service.

I’ve had the blink system for about a year. I’ve been happy with the video quality, and the ease of use. The app is easy to quickly use, and the cameras have survived outside in the elements for a year. Claims of a 2 year battery life seem exaggerated at best, however. The o YL way you’re getting 2 years of battery life is if you have your cameras basically disarmed for a majority of the hours in the day, which kind of defeats the purpose of a security camera system. But I bought it expecting that, and I am not disappointed. Batteries last about 6 months, give or take. Would I like 2 years between battery changes? Of course, but six months is still impressive. As for the app; it’s good! My one request would be that they move the ability to schedule arm and disarm times for each individual camera, rather than the system as a whole. I have cameras in front of my house, and one in my backyard. When my kids are playing out back they’re constantly triggering the backyard camera, which drives the battery life into the ground. I’d like to be able to disarm that one at a scheduled time, while leaving the front cameras armed. I know I could do it manually, but that sort of defeats the purpose. I’d be willing to give the app 5 stars if that feature was added.

It’s actually better than I thought it would be for the price... a couple things I find silly.... Unless I’m missing it and I may be so hopefully if I am someone can correct me.. with such an important app with such an important notification that’s so different from your phones other notifications there should be a built in function where the app makes a different noise than other apps since iPhone doesn’t seem to do that on its own (I know, not blinks problem, but many people will be using iOS to Navigate) I find myself ignoring the notifications thinking they are social things. Whoops. Also wish more than one person can view live at once. Especially if paying for premium planning. I don’t understand why pay all the money for literally absolutely no reason whatsoever. I keep trying to justify the reason for the subscription and it makes really no sense other than they kind of bully you into it making more sense if you have more than one camera which almost everyone who buys one does.

I have my four cameras. I have two in the front of the house and two in the rear. They are great! Just use Common sense in your expectations. For the price they can’t be beat. I read the reviews and the negative reviews either reflect a lack of understanding or higher expectations. The two cameras in the front pick up anyone approaching the front door. The second camera follows anyone walking up the side walk to the front door. The one camera in the rear shows a large area in the yard. The 4th camera I use to monitor varmints who eat my plants. I can move these cameras pretty much anywhere I wish within 100 feet of the house. When there is too much activity from the wind blowing a bush within camera range, I can turn it off. The night vision is great. It is not in color. I watch deer, raccoons, groundhogs very clearly. They are so sensitive that it will pick up movement when something or someone it at the outer edge of the camera range. I certainly expect to replace my lithium batteries before the two year expectation but that is a small price to pay for all the features the cameras provide. Many issues can be resolved by owning a good modem/router. Now, I plan to purchase a mini for inside my home.

Got them in July of this year. Had been working great. In the last month only work when we are home. Defeats the purpose. Could be something we done. Have checked everything on them. We have eight of them. Live on an acre. Yesterday we could see a shadow of a man with beard at side of the house. This is while we were home. Never seen were he came from or were he went. Found out later his dog had got loose. He was looking for him. Then another day. Just happened to look out front door. Their was a car sitting in front of house with someone in it. Never seen it pul up or leave. Was there for a good 30 minutes. Now not working when we leave house. Going to call them tomorrow. See if they can help me with the issues. Also one camera that never works long. Have changed batteries twice already. Moved it to different places. This time nothing works to get it connected back. Love the clear day time pictures on it. Have the doorbell. Have not connected it yet. Was going to get the new security lights you put cameras in. So night vision will be better. Like watching the wildlife that comes through the back yard down by the woods. It’s amazing what is running around in your yard at night.

Purchased system while awaiting back surgery. Can quickly look outside and see what’s going on. Has limited written instructions but the videos and pictures paint a clear picture. It takes no time at all to set this up with the app. Battery life has been great. Keep in mind that when you increase the camera settings, (image quality, duration of recording, etc) of course the batteries are not going to last two years. Come on folks, don’t give negative feedback because of that! Plus the app monitors battery life, and wireless signal strengths. It will also tell you when a camera has high use and alerts you if the battery is low. I will say, the night vision is amazing! I am really impressed of how bright the image is. The camera sensitivity was set to 6 and it was picking up birds flying by. Adjusted it to 5 and it doesn’t, catch them anymore. The mount that came with it are simple. You can tilt up/down and swivel it left and right. The phone notifications of movement is very timely and the camera settings in the app are great. Setting up the cameras are easy and is not rocket science. I have two cameras now and plan to install more in the future.

Blink has degraded several features for local storage users over time quietly, to the point that I am now shopping for a different brand. I have used Blink for a year and a half now. In the beginning, my setup was great. It never had downtime, I talked to people through the device from across the country and saved the clips, and it just worked. Now, the system does not always pick up motion when it used to, and still worse, the Blink app removed the function for local storage users to save their 'live view' clips. If someone is burglarizing your home, and you hop into a live view to confirm it, you aren't allowed to save the clip you're watching in real time. It's insane. Also, Blink just recently added a fat, unchangeable watermark onto all new clips it records. So not only have I lost various functions and my system is less reliable now, but Blink wants to advertise itself should I ever have the use of this product anyway. They call the watermark "industry standard" when other brands allow their watermarks to toggle off. Don't buy this system or use this app if you think you're going to be self-sufficient with it. They money grabbers at Blink nerfed this into oblivion for that purpose.

Let me start off by saying that I like the system and it works. It has some issues however and here’s why it’s not 5 stars: 1) intermittent sensitivity. The camera on the front of my house will often capture a car driving down the street, but not always the mailman or UPS driver walking up to my door (which is closer to the camera than the street). I don’t understand this, and more importantly it’s not serving it’s purpose if it doesn’t capture people walking up to my house. 2) Notifications are almost non existent. Sometimes I’ll get a notification on my lock screen, sometimes I won’t. There is never a notification on the app icon, not until I open the app and then exit, at which point the number of notifications shows up on the icon. This is annoying, as I’d like that reminder so I know to review my alerts. The biggest selling point of this system for me is the fact that no subscription is required. However, I don’t know if that trade off is worth it if it isn’t going to capture everything it should, or notify me when there is activity.

Great camera system. Have had the cameras for a couple years now and have very little issues with them. Love that they’re wireless and take disposable batteries. Easy to mount to exterior surfaces and they can handle the heat and extreme cold of upstate NY. Only have a few things I would like to see added that other cameras systems have already. Would be useful if there is a “mark all as seen” for the events that are recorded. Seeing as you have to clear the notification icon by clicking on each event one at a time. Would also like there to be a option to still record events but not be notified each time. Example being if I have the entire system armed but only want the doorbell notifications to be sent to my phone and not the entire camera system notifications. It would be a nice feature to have added that way I can keep the system recording all events and check in on them when I want/need to, but will always be notified when the doorbell is rang.

My last set up was with Nest and I needed a few more cameras and purchased Blink because of the price (it's appropriately priced). The camera set up is a breeze and no hardwiring needed. The downside to that is the lack functions it offers. There is no live feed without a request made in the app and that request takes at least 30 seconds and the feed lasts only 60 seconds. I use the cameras to watch my kids and dogs when I'm in a different room and I can't with these cameras. The notifications are incessant. I want it to record motion even when I'm home but it let's me know anytime the wind blows or someone is in the home. I know we're home. You can only snooze for 4 hours max and you can't clear all so in like 2 days, I have 688 alerts that are just hanging out. The night vision isn't very good either. But it's like half the price of Nest and almost instant set up. It does great sensing motion and recording. Best is able to differentiate between wind and a person so that's a drawback. Biggest draw back is not being able to use it like a baby monitor. I'm keeping the Nest just for that.

First , I complained that the latest force update required a iOS version that can not be implemented, rendering cameras virtually obsolete, because my iPad is old and can’t be upgraded - so the customer service/ developer response was : “appreciate your feed back...recent app updates provide security...my team..will like to discuss Blink system requirements in further detail...” THIS MUST BE an AI response, right?! or someone who has a very dark sense of humor and uncaring attitude ! I understand that the system - NOW -requires an update and iOS that is compatible BUT THAT was not the case when I bought the system, and what you have done is worse than any security flaw exploit would have done -now the cameras are worthless. since, I can not use them with out buying a new iPad that cost 10 the price of cameras. Do you get that?! Is it to difficult to understand the economics of the problem. Why do you respond with inappropriate comments that assume customers “are stupid or ignorant about technology?” Or are you saying that your engineerings are going to violate iOS copyright and hack and old IPad to make it compatible.. (sarcasm).. Yeah, I do not think so!!

The fact that you can’t select a certain clips you want to delete and then delete at one time makes it almost unusable. Wind makes tons of videos and my husband was working in the yard which produced tons of clips that I need to delete. Mind you I should have turned it off while he was outside working, but I didn’t so now I have to delete individually hundreds of clips by swiping and then hitting the delete button. For each clip!!! It would also be great to have a timer of when you disarm for a reason like yard work or something that it alerts you to turn them back on so you don’t forget. I don’t Know why the wind turned them on as there was no movement in front to prompt it just the sound of wind. Please make the upgrade immediately to select the clips in a group and THEN hit the delete button. I don’t have 20 min or more to individually delete the clips nor do I want ti spend my time doing this. Overall I like the use of the app and blink their are just a few MUST HAVE things that need to be updated and then some nice to haves

I purchased this mini device to watch over my family but it didn’t work at all it wouldn’t connect to my WiFi i talked to a person they sent me out a new device which i knew wasn’t going to be the problem solver i connect the new device an still no connection to my internet i have high speed 350mbp speed connection there is no. Reason for this small device to not find or connect to my WiFi ready for the best part... it only connects to personal hotspot i cannot have this run on a personal hotspot all day an night long this is absolutely ridiculous i can’t explain how disappointed i am in blink an the company i relyed on it to protect my family from people harming us an catching every thing i need on footage wind up is i cannot even get it to get a Live Photo notbing the team can do at this point to change my mind no replacement no help u just lost a good review an a. Customer this wasn’t fair that it lost me 1 week of my life that i could of had invested into another camera because they made me wait in The mail for the also broken mini camera

UPDATE (March 25, 2021): I emailed Blink customer service as the Developer’s Response requested. Blink replied back to that email with (exact quote, word for word): “In case you can't update your iOS to a newer version (some Apple devices are limited by the manufacturer), I am afraid that your only option is to purchase newer device, which can carry ios 12.5 or higher.” So that is their only solution, for me to buy a new iPhone. I foresee a class action lawsuit against Blink on the horizon. So my advice is DO NOT BUY BLINK CAMERAS. Blink does not support their existing customers or stand behind their products. I’ve owned this camera for only 5 months, now it’s a brick unless I shell out $600 for a new iPhone. HORRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE! ORIGINAL POST: Worked fine till they updated the app in early March 2021. To view the camera I now must update to a newer version of the app that my phone cannot download because of its older IOS software. Why don’t you allow older iphones the abilty to continue to use the older version of the app. It worked before, now it doesn’t. Now the camera is useless. I was planning on adding additional cameras, but not now.

PLEASE FIX ASAP. Yikes! The recent update puts the delete button right where the share/save button used to be. Anyone who has been regularly saving videos is set up to accidentally delete instead of save. Also, the share button is now positioned right next to the delete button, and so is very easy to accidentally tap, especially on a iPhone vs iPad. Do the software designers actually use the app? [Edited: the April 2021 update speeds up the save to file function; it only takes a few seconds to save each video to file now. Thanks!!! —> It *WAS* a slow and annoying process, having to save one video at a time - taking about 1/2 minute each save.] By moving the share/delete buttons the save process is slowed down by (1) needing to break the habit of quickly tapping where the share button used to be, and (2) having to be very careful to make sure you don’t tap the delete button by accident since they’re so close together. Yes, there is a pop-up “do you want to delete” verification when you tape delete, but it’s easy to accidentally tap “yes”. One glaring lack in functionality is the ability to add a camera/date/time stamp to saved video clips. The data is all there, and is used as the filename when saved as a file. 1. Please move the share and delete buttons back to their previous locations. ASAP. 2. Please FINALLY add a feature to save multiple clips at once. 3. Please add an optional camera/date/time stamp to saved videos.

Background need: I have a need to watch my elderly, handicapped FIL who likes to try to stand up without required assistance. I have been using old iPads’ FaceTime to watch and communicate with him (while I’m working in another part of the house, or outside doing yard work). I need to keep a constant eye and/or ear on him so to interrupt any potential fall situation he tries to put himself into. Ownership : I just set up my account, app, and camera today. Camera = indoor Mini First response in meeting my need: disappointed - Live sound & stream last less than a couple of minutes, then there is a short lived prompt to continue. If you miss it, then you have to restart the stream. I need it to be a continuous feed, until I manually end it. The Mini is corded for its power, so power saving is not of a concern. Features: The motion sensor works well Notifications come through quickly - for my need, my FIL could be on the ground by the time I get the alert and get the stream moving again, so while they are nice, the process of getting from alert to live stream is too slow. Audio - 2 way is nice & appears to be clear enough for me to be heard coming from the camera. Important to note: the video and sound have about a 2 second delay. Likely, if you are reading this in the App Store then the purchase is already made. To the app developers: please consider including a continuous live stream option, especially for corded powered cameras.

The app is OK with limited functionality for somethings compared to full version subscription services like ring and nest. I can’t really complain about these cameras because of their price point and typical durability. But this app is another issue. I have not gotten icon badges at all ever since day one. I get banners and sounds and other things like that but no matter what I do I cannot get badges. And this wouldn’t be a big issue but sometimes you swipe away multiple notification banners that are persistent or in this case, even setting the banners to persistent is not working because they are stuck on temporary. Added to the wonky Ness of the notification screen on the iPhone itself, where sometimes there’s no active notifications but there are past notifications and sometimes even when you swipe back up you don’t see those missed notifications, this is where the problem with not having badges comes in. But I’ve been dealing with this for over two years and multiple tickets later I still don’t have a fix for it.

I spent a lot of time researching different camera systems before finally purchasing a 5 set of these cameras. They have met my expectations from what I had read were the pros and cons of this camera system. My biggest gripe with the app currently is that there isn’t a way to refresh the camera views all simultaneously. When I open the app to check on everything, (my 5 cameras,) I should be able to see a live view of all cameras instead of clicking on each camera to refresh the feed. There is even a pull down “refresh” feature when you are on the camera view page but I haven’t actually seen that do anything. This is how I think the camera refresh function should work but it does not. All in all not a huge deal, but something I think of every time I use the app. When I’m at work or on the go and want to quickly check on things at home, it makes the process longer than it needs to be.

I gave the Blink Camera System 5 stars! I have read most of the reviews and they’re mostly negative comments regarding battery life and pic quality. For the price, you can’t lose! I have 5 cameras and 2 sync modules, each sync module has its own set of cameras. I never lose a signal and it’s true that the batteries may not last 2 year but what battery do you have that has lasted that long? Common sense would tell you, the more you use the item in which the battery is placed in the harder the battery is going to work. You can change the frequency in the setting within the app. Also, my notifications are perfect. I was in Georgia over the weekend and could view, arm and talk to my family through the camera and they hear me just fine. For those who have not figured out all of the cameras capabilities, just take the time to get to know your app. To me it’s great...

I read some reports about battery life. I have had a total of close to 20 Blink cameras located at two properties for at least 4 years. Some of the cameras are armed 24/7, others are on from dusk to dawn. In the four years I had to change batteries in maybe six cameras when they alerted me to a low battery condition. I recently changed all the batteries just because it has been four years. Just so you understand, these cameras go off all the time, with people during the day and animals at night. Great system. Great price. No monthly fee. Only shortcoming is that they could easily provide additional control over individual cameras. For example, I want to know anytime a vehicle enters our circular driveway during the day or approaches the front door as well as when someone approaches a locked garage door in the middle of the night. But the alert sound should be able to be set differently as one event is usually benign, while the other could very well be ominous. Also, you can arm and disarm the entire system anytime you like, but it would be better to arm/disarm cameras individually. For example, maybe you want to arm a basement stairwell door 24/7 because it is not normally used, but only arm your outside pool camera after dark when friends or service people are not usually walking about. .

I’ve had this unit about 4 months. It was easy to install and the motion detector works well. We have located in our carport which gets very hot during the day (we are in Florida) so the temperature notification goes off nearly every day but it doesn’t seem to affect the quality of the video. We also have it hooked up to a power source so I don’t worry about the battery. We ended up getting a better camera mount for it. The one that comes with it leaves it open to theft. I like the free storage and it has never filled up because I usually delete the videos daily. I rated it a 3 star because we have NEVER been able to get audio out. We can hear the person in the carport but when we are not home we would like the person to be able to hear us. I have spent HOURS and HOURS on the Blink website and googling other sites for solutions to no avail. I would like to get another camera for a different location but I’m hesitant because of that particular reason.

I fell like there is very little progress on app features. Overall this system works for me but it's missing one critical feature: Disarm for x minutes... Please implement a quick "Disarm for X minutes" for individual cameras. In residential situations, there are *many* times where there is known activity in a certain area for an amount of time, like many others have mentioned: mowing lawns, sitting on porch, working in driveway, etc. etc. You either end up with 50 videos, run down your battery, or you remember to disarm the camera first but then forget to turn it back on two days later. It's just really inconvenient. A simple "Disarm for.." list with a set of times, say 5,10,15,30,60,120 minutes would be the perfect feature.. thank you. Adding the temporary disarm to the iOS icon context menu would be even more convenient. Also: please stop darkening the video when playback is paused. It's impossible to pause and view something important because the video is immediately is darkened. Doesn't make any sense.

I haven’t had any connection issues and the system reconnects quickly upon resetting the internet. App is robust and easy to use and also lets you store videos to the phone quickly. Setup is also simple with the app. The wireless range of the cameras is quite impressive as well. I wish the camera software could be updated so that motion detection picks up less false positives and has a higher detection range. For example, if a car is moving at a distance I believe this should be easily picked up; or a person walking at a distance on a yard. I have a hard time getting full coverage in certain areas where my cameras are located because of this. This happens with a high sensitivity set as well. Also please add a way to add notifications for when there is a software/firmware update. I tested the indoor Blink Mini and was able to run across the room where the camera is located without the camera detecting motion, please correct this. I was wearing black and the walls are all white, so I assumed this would be captured but wasn’t. Moving at a slower pace works as expected. Overall, I think the motion detection algorithm needs a little bit of work. Battery life isn’t too bad considering all the work that is being done by the little camera like constantly recording motion, sound, and talking to the sync module over a wireless connection.

If you have more than a couple cameras this system becomes almost useless. Very time the wind blows the cameras false trigger. Every time the sun changes angles they false trigger. Every time a shadow moves they false trigger. The trigger time is so slow that most times the object you want to capture has already passed the viewing angle. Or it will trigger too quickly and stop recording before the object reaches the view. If you are doing lawn care or enjoying a gathering expect your cameras to go insane. The only way to rectify the first set of problems is to disarm the system, and then wonder a couple days later why there hasn’t been any video, oh that’s right it’s been disarmed for two days because the cameras were constantly false triggering. Or, you can turn down the sensitivity to a point where a Mac truck wouldn’t trigger them. As simple solution to most problems would be quite simple. Make it so the system could be globally disarmed for a preset period of time. Unfortunately this seems to be beyond the comprehension of the company. Or they plainly just don’t give a crap.

So the cameras work great. Very easy to install. None of that has anything to do with this app. This app works very well to set up and configure your unit and cameras. Very simple to operate and very impressed with how quickly I get a notification. I will say the notifications seem to be a bit delayed versus something like a ring video doorbell as you don’t get notified until after the video is completed and uploaded to Blink which takes several seconds, however the video is crisp and clean and pulls. down after server very fast. My one real complaint is the notification sound on your iPhone is the same as most every other notification therefore unless you just look at every notification comes in you don’t know anything’s happening tell you check. Would be really nice to have a unique notification sound or a choice of notification sounds in the settings

Unfortunately many app reviews in the App Store are based on the fact people have no idea what they are doing. As seen on so many reviews on this camera system. Their bad review is based on incompetence only. That being said, I ran into the GHz issue. No big deal. Got into my router. Turned off the 5ghz and only activated the 2.5. Not hard. Was a breeze after that. Also so many reviews I’ve read are easily solved if you just go through the settings in the app. We just bought this system at Costco. We love it. Absolutely works as advertised. It’s unfortunate that so many bad reviews for a good system are hampered by Karen’s. Last thing… it’s all wireless. Obviously not as great as having a complete wired security cam system. But if you can’t even figure out the wireless system, getting a wired one is probably way above your pay grade. The app works. The system works. I recommend it.

I own and operate a dog boarding kennel and bought these cameras to put in each room so I can keep and eye on boarders at night or any time I am away for a couple of hours. We recently were hit hard by Hurricane Ida. Our power was knocked out but we have standby generators. Since that meant we were able to reconnect our wifi I figured I would be able to use the cameras but that was not the case. Even though my phone and cameras/sync were both actively connected to the wifi it would not connect because the internet was out. We did not get internet restored for over a month so during that time the cameras were completely useless. I am not a tech expert so I don’t know the ins and outs of how the connections are made, but it seems that if they are on the same wifi connection they should not require internet.

First, this is a comment about the app and it’s system, not the cameras. I like the security zones and privacy zones because these are set up in a place where there is a little bit of street and a little bit of the neighbors. So, I can mostly prevent them from activating when a car drives by or my neighbors leave their garages. However, there is no user model. My spouse has to log into the same account as me on their phone, and if I delete videos, their app crashes. Being able to assign multiple users to the same account would fix this. Right now, we have some workers on a landscape project going through the area repeatedly during daytime hours. When it records the first video, I’d like to be able to suspend any triggering (that is, disarm) for one hour because, say, they are unloading a truck. But, no, I have to disarm the system entirely and then remember to rearm it. We mostly rely on videos syncing locally, and keep very few cloud stored. If there were a way to classify videos into separate folders (“random person peers into yard”, “wildlife crosses at night”, etc) accessing the cloud recorded videos would not be the pain of navigating a long list that it is now. As others have noted, it would be nice to be able to customize the notification sound on iOS devices.

This app and the blink system, for the price, are good solutions for home security. However, the app is missing some features that would vastly improve the experience for the end user. The two features that would be best implemented are either- indefinite snooze on camera notifications, or the ability to control which device notifications push to your device. Having an “All or nothing” notification setting is cumbersome. Example: I’d like to be able to get notifications for the outdoor and doorbell cams, but not for the indoor cams. The indoor cams would still record motion, however, there wouldn’t be notifications. Also, the doorbell notification is lacking. It’s not obvious enough. All in all; this is a good alternative to other systems but be aware of the flaws. The camera sensitivity works well, the resolution is decent, and the app works pretty well.

First time user. Just got it today for Christmas. It comes with one set of lithium batteries for my two cameras. The sync module attaches to a long cord that then attaches to the plug and then into the wall vs being flat against the wall plug. It has to be close to the router and since my router is in the laundry room the sync module has to sit on my kitchen counter top or hang from a plug onto the ground. Who wants a devices taking up counter space or hanging down their wall to the ground? Biggest annoyance is It DOES NOT COME WITH INSTRUCTIONS! How on earth did people before me mount the cameras? I have no clue as there are zero instructions on how to mount the cameras it only tells you how to sync with the app. It is extremely frustrating and will be the reason I return it. Plus what are the holes at the bottom of the cameras for? Have no clue. How do you sell something without instructions?! Also when I hit live on the camera it freezes or only takes for a few seconds at a time. It’s extremely exasperating. I would have never picked it out on my own and my mother feels awful for buying it. Nothing but a headache.

I love my blinks but this last app upgrade is very annoying to a long time blink user. I agree the app was pretty archaic, and visually it looks great now, but with the new layout having ALL actionable buttons stacked at the bottom, every time I’m trying to manage my videos (I.e filter/ edit to bulk delete them) I end up hitting the community button when I hit delete.... Over and over and over and over again because the padding between the two areas is so small. This is super frustrating when I’ve taken the time to select specific videos to delete and then I have to make my selections all over again. I’m a 30 something working in tech so it’s not a user inexperience issue. It’s so annoying and I know I can’t be the only one with this issue. A better UI would be to move the edit/filter and cancel/mark/delete bar to across the top of the videos section and not right above the home/videos/settings/community at the bottom. Just one designer, and very annoyed consumers, opinion.

Had the thought that someone may be breaking in loaded up the camera to try and see. Sat there waiting watching the icon spin I hear the door open and footsteps app is still loading by the time it loads the intruder was already passed that camera and is out of view but is in view of the 2nd camrea quicky left the first camrea and tried to load the 2nd cameras video but I get the error live view in progress live view in progress 5 minutes have passed and still this crap is loading the person is already behind my door and when it finally loads it turns out it's a family member but if it wasn't I would surely be dead this system is so slow I wouldn't buy another one of these cameras they are trash DO NOT depending on this system tobprptecy your home or save your life. Better off getting a ring or something that actually works

I had install problems from the get go. Discovered three things during the process. 1) Have a more modern phone to set up. I have an old I phone 6. App kept crashing and I had a sold blue light and would not do anything. 2) I called support and they tried to walk me through, but same issue. App kept crashing. 3) Blink people are very responsive. If you call in, they will take the time to walk you through install. While it didn’t work they were going to send me a new sync module. I had forgotten about an I pad someone gave me last October. I tried all the corrective steps they wanted me to do with my older I phone and everything went smooth. Installed system, updated software and everything works. Love the system so far. Only complaint is you either disarm whole system or let to run all cameras. If Blink would allow each camera location to be armed or disarmed, it would be a lot better. Things to check if you have issues: Make sure your connecting to your modem with a 2.4 gig channel. Make sure you set up the system before mounting cameras. Use the most current phone or tablet you have. Even if you have to use a neighbors to set up. Calm customer service. Google blink customer service for the number. Not on instructions. Once installed my old phone works the system perfectly. So far... so Good!

For the price of these cameras the experience is awesome .. I just purchased 4 cameras for under a $140 at Best Buys . I now have 10 cams hooked up . About to hook up the 11th after I get done this review .. The cameras are clear and you can see at night time when the camera is facing outside even if the night vision is off in many cases .. has so many customizable features in the app .. also the updates by the developer are constant . This is very important as I am a former momentum camera user and seeing how they left their users hanging firmware wise ..it’s good to see a developer who is dedicated to updating the products .. only thing is the outdoor batteries do not last for two years under normal traffic or usage . But oh well just replace the batteries once a month .. not a big deal .. 5 stars !!!!

If you’re new to having some surveillance these will be what to get. Also, if you’re a little tech challenged these are great too. I have one in direct sun all day and one in shade. I haven’t had an issue with either. The batteries are a good/bad situation. Good because wiring can be a large task and a little scary. Bad because they need to be changed and getting the camera back exactly where you had it after replacing them is impossible. I would defiantly recommend these simple cameras as the video quality is good day or night. The app is simple and the price is great for the ease of use and camera quality. I have moved up to a serious surveillance system but still have my blink cameras In place. I’ll keep them until they die if they do. If you’re on the fence about getting involved with cameras and are not tech advanced these are the ones for you.

I have two mini cameras that I use to monitor my home when away. I’m toward the end of my free month trial period and have turned them on several times to test them. They worked the first time and detected a friend stopping by to take care of something. However, they have not worked since. I have been away multiple times and had someone come over, which was undetected. I also came home and should have set off the motion sensors myself, none of which were detected. In fact, as I wrote this I’ve walked in front of cameras, event taking pictures of them to show the lights are on. Nada. No alerts, no videos, nothing. I’ve reset settings, turned things off/on, etc. and neither product works as promoted. I certainly won’t pay for the subscription and at least they were on sale so I didn’t invest much. If you really need a serious monitoring system I suggest another product. This one only seems to work for live check ins.

This is the worst app! It’s just awful. High hopes for improvement but after a year, I’m about over it. 1) when viewing live view, after a few seconds you’re interrupted and asked if you want to continue. Well, of course info or I would have exited the live view. If you’re watching in landscape view, you CANNOT tap the continue button. It just WILL NOT register the tap. You have to flip the view and then hit continue. Meanwhile your live view is interrupted. 2) The lag is serious. When opening a camera view, there is at least a 5 second lag. And more like 20 seconds to be notified of a motion trigger. 3) You would think you could get a split screen view of multiple cameras at once. NOPE! Blink only lets you view one camera at a time. And switching from one view to another is AT LEAST a 15 second process as anytime you leave a live view of one camera, there is a huge lag and a message that says, “live view in process, please wait” or “system busy”. 4) All of my points above make the blink app severely INADEQUATE FOR SECURITY MONITORING and honestly UNSAFE if one isn’t aware of the shortfalls. I would never have invested in the 10 cameras I bought had it been made clear how seriously flawed the app is and the lack of basic features one would expect when buying equipment to monitor their property. Giving 2 stars for ease of setup. 0 for functionality.

I’ve have this 5 camera system for a yr now. You have free cloud access for 30 days. However, there is a delay between the time you receive an alert and the time it takes to open the live view- if it opens. Sometimes due to the live view not opening I attempt to view the clip which should be saved to a usb drive and I will get a live view in progress message or there will be no clip available. In most cases, by the time the live view opens you have missed the cause of the alert. I’ve gotten alerts with no saved clip- but I get home and there is a package at the door, but no recording of when it took place or anyone walking up. One camera went off-line several months age and I have been unable to get it to work. The inability to promptly access the cameras and/or recording is unacceptable!!! I paid for cameras for added security and instead have thrown my money away!!! I would not recommend these to anyone.

I’ve had a few different camera systems over the years, my last was Nest IQ. I moved to this XT2 system because of the price point, I got a hub and 3 cameras covering the whole exterior of my house for less than the price of 1 Nest. Also not paying a monthly fee is huge. They just need to catch up a little still. The cameras have issues pretty much every day or two. One of them will say “live view failed” and just wont work at all for a few hours. Eventually it comes back. That’s even with pulling the batteries to restart it and making sure the connection is good. Also there’s a few usability things that I got used to that I wish this system had. It reeeaaallly needs to ability to change notification settings for each camera. I don’t need a notification every time movement in the yard happens, but I do still want it to record the video. On the other hand, I do want a notification every time someone comes to my front door. Need those options. Also it needs to alert to motion immediately, but doesn’t. It records the ENTIRE CLIP and then notifies you. And you can’t see the camera until the clip is done recording either. It’s crazy. So someone could come to my door, and if I have it set to record a 30 second clip, I won’t get notified until the full 30 seconds is done recording. Again, not a bad start, but needs work.

I have three cameras. They are the first generation indoor - and they are pointless if you are looking to add cameras for security or to record anything without the other person knowing f. WHY OH WHY make that blue indication light a must have? Like seriously, what is the point. Then that white bright “hey you are being recorded” spot light blinding anyone coming into contact. Then motion notifications are delayed by about 30 seconds to a minute. So if someone Where to break in all you would get is numerous recordings of the event sometimes up to five minutes later because the camera is continuously recording and you can’t watch the camera during the recording. So then you might want to switch to a different camera in the house to maybe see if the person moved into the bedroom or down in the basement, but you can’t do that either. You can’t check any of your other cameras until the other camera is done filming. If they are set for motion status then they will keep recording and you won’t be able to watch the video, so the guy will pretty much be off with your TV before even know it. Another thing is that they can’t operate on a closed circuit, and you have to have power and Wi-Fi so if I were going to rob a house and they had a sticker in the window that said powered by “blink”, I just simply cut the Internet cable go on in.

The general app is fine. However, when it comes to a moderately adequate integration of video monitoring of your home, it misses the mark. It completely relies on the user’s memory to appropriately arm/disarm/monitor the system. A properly and well designed system should work without having to think about it… it should find ways to remove that high human-error possibility. Relying on the users memory to manage arming/disarming is the #1 problem with Blink, in my opinion. It leads me to dissatisfaction and looking for other more reasonable options in this area. Maybe Wyze succeeds here? The app/system needs some attention to reminders/notifications to arm or disarm cameras. For example - ping a notification to ask me if I want to arm my system after my phone has left the area. Utilize existing phone location data. Most of the time, I simply don’t remember to arm the system. It defeats the entire use-case of home video-monitoring. If you can add some thoughtful attention on how you can better empower the user to result in a more successful solution, I bet you’d find some fanatical users. Right now, it’s just “meh”. Another idea: take a look at how dash cams add in incredible layers of thoughtfulness and use-cases for drivers. Adapt that. I understand there is a little predictive/AI add-in.

Video quality during the day is pretty good. Motion sensing is adequate. The one serious aggravation is stored video that is either (1) clipped at the beginning or end or (2) nonexistent as in I get a thumbnail that shows a picture, but a video that lasts less than one second and nothing but gray screen. I’ve set my video capture to record 15 second clips, but apparently this doesn’t mean very much as the majority of my clips are only a few seconds. Last night while I was away after dark and in meetings the system failed to record a suspicious vehicle (I can blow up the thumbnail enough to see that) on three separate cameras that all were in range and triggered! While the price of this system is low, it’s still high enough to commit customers to a lot of effort to try to get the buggy thing to work. Considering the amount of money behind this whole project the fact that it’s this prone to failure is just a failure of will.

I really do like these cameras. It’s my hope the app will update so these small issues will be resolved so I can enjoy the cameras to their full potential. Our young cat recently passed away due to a heart attack when we were not home. I became paranoid about my other cats so I got a few of these cameras to keep tabs on them when I have to leave. They have a nice view area so I can see multiple points in my home. The app flaws, however: -I wish you could see a live view of multiple cameras in a single instance. When you look at your system overview page, you just see previous stills of those cameras and not their live view -switching between live views takes a moment. When you leave one camera to go view another, it says “please wait, live view in progress” for several moments before you’re able to switch to another camera. -when you’re viewing a camera, after 30 seconds or so it asks “continue?” And if you don’t click continue, the feed will end. Continuous viewing would be nice. I assume some people use these as baby monitors as well so I think the feature would be handy all around. If these app issues could be fixed I would be highly satisfied with my purchase.

When trying to open live view, I get a spinning wait which sometimes never finishes. When the doorbell rings it takes over a minute to open the app. On two occasions the visitor left before I could respond via the mic. When switching between cameras, the display of video from one camera is blocked as the last viewed camera wraps up. Can be up to a minute. Not good when scanning cameras for someone moving around the house. Also you cannot open a view that contains all (or at least 4) cameras, simultaneously. Control of cameras is very good. The camera quality is good enough. Integration with Alexa is good. Would prefer to be able to disable individual camera alerting. You have to enable all them disable individual cameras. Alexa only enables/disabled all. Definitely seem focused on indoor camera needs, like watching your pets. Would prefer outdoor cameras to have a better cold temperature range and better wifi connect range. Developer should spend some better effort on a more usable app, or open the interface to 3rd party app vendors that are more responsive to customer feature requests. Overall I have used much better home camera apps, much better. I actually have been using another camera app and cheap camera just to see right away. Blink just takes too long and is unreliable.

We purchased these last year, have in the house, front, side and back of house. We’re now gonna purchase 1 for the other side of house and two opposite facing on the garage and one more in the house. This group of four will run according to directions from Blink separate from the 1st system. Yes for the price and clarity it offers the same flexibility that the top systems offer and if you want to retrieve your footage when the trial period is up from the Cloud it’s only $100 Annually; look going from $20 monthly $200/Annually with the Premium Security with the Police coming the same as with Blink after the damage is done if any rather it’s real or possum and you get to call if needed or say “get away” lol! Moral of this story Great 4 The Price! My husband loves it!

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I like how these cameras work, but it said the battery lasts 2 years. If it’s designed for your garage then I would expect that 2 year battery life would be for normal use, it didn’t even last 6 months.

I have had and still have a couple of security camera systems but unlike my other systems requiring wiring these can be placed anywhere. The range of the system can be extended with WiFi extenders. My cameras work well with Powerline WiFi extenders and I am still on my original batteries after 12months use. Better than my previous battery operated cameras that required recharging every 3 weeks. I like the mobile phone app that notifies me when someone approaches the cameras. Nice to know someone is outside before they actually break in especially at night. Day or night the video is brilliant with the option for sound on or off. There currently is no speaker to communicate with the intruder from the Blink XT camera but I know they are there and they don’t realise that I know. USA region units work in Australia and are compatible with Australian voltage as the system works with dual voltage. Be aware that Blink does not honour warranties when purchased from Ebay and the Ebay seller is your only recourse if faulty. Would I recommend this system - yes I am very happy. Try to buy from an Authorised seller for warranty purposes.

Pretty much as my title, the unit and it’s battery life are EXACTLY as they claim. I have yet to drain the batteries on the original non-XT cameras that I backed in crowd funding. The only 2 things I would request is 1) stop breaking the app/experience every so often with updates 2) (I doubt this would ever be done but...) integration into the Apple ecosystem.

Cameras aren’t bad, not great either but the app is frustrating and if you try to change the primary account email you end up in an email authentication loop with the app indicating emails are still being sent to the old email. Bad design, lazy verification testing.

When you press the open Alexa app you get the Alexa App saying this skill no longer exists. Alexa cannot find any Blink cameras. Lots of trouble connecting to Alexa. Sorry I bought these cameras

Sync module keeps getting offline every day. I am MCSE But no way to fix it. Check the forum before buying.

Minus another two stars because still not supporting IFTTT, Google, Amazon Alexa, Apple home, etc. automation outside US. Seriously? Still? Backed the crowdfunding of these devices. They work pretty well though one bounces between being too sensitive and not sensitive enough. The app is slowly improving to assist with deleting or saving multiple recordings. Generally speaking, these are great devices and the app is pretty good. The worst aspect is there is zero functionality for Apple Home Control, Google Home, Alexa Skills or IFTTT for Australian backers. The company’s lack of interest and support for it’s original backers is pretty disappointing and makes these somewhat dumb units. My home is becoming filled more and more with smart devices and my beloved blink system is next on the chopping block for not keeping up with the times. Please fix quick!

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Avant tout allait bien. Tout d’un coup plus rien fonctionne. J’ai tenté de tout réinstaller mais à chaque fois que je tente de connecter le wifi le module tourne au rouge.

Having to keep pressing Continue in live view is really dumb and annoying.

Why in the world do I need to keep pressing continue to be able to watch. So damn annnoying

Says I am IOS 13.2... but I am 14.3 Every time I open I have to get a new verification code from my email. Once I understand but every time is unusable....

Always had trouble with both of my cameras. One of them stopped working completely after warranty expired. Second one has trouble finding the wifi signal, I even purchased a wifi extender for it.

I can’t update the app because I don’t have the newest IOS and so I am now receiving hundreds of notifications because of movement detection, but I can’t open the app, can’t see my live feed, can’t access my videos and I can’t even disable my cameras ! You have to fix this ASAP !!! I paid for these cameras and I can’t even use them. How could you think this was a good idea?

Quand l’on click sur Create Account l’application ferme automatiquement. Même si on s’inscrit sur leur site, il nous ai impossible de nous connecter.

The app has functioned fine since original install. This most recent update now requires a verification every time I open the app, this is ridiculous. I choose to not give my phone number or turn on Biometric, so now need to enter a code from email. I get if we need to verify once a month or so, but every time is overkill. Or at least give me the option to turn this off, as I also close the (all) app(s) after use to save battery life. Please change this requirement.

There is no legitimate reason to require a phone number, the claim is that it's required for security but sms verification is considered to be very insecure. Blatent attempt to try to de-anonymize users.

Not anymore - we lost the power in our house for a few hours; the app re-booted when the power retunred. Now, I cannot log onto the system unless I send Blink my cell phone number. What a load of s**t. Basically they hold you hostage until you give them your number ... the app is useless. I cannot access the camera or the app. They just lost a customer. Information greed.

Asking for a phone number to text verification but not receiving messages. Poorly developed and tested app

The latest update makes it so you cannot mass delete the vids. My husband can go in & out of the house 27+ times in a day… I’ve now got pages & pages of videos that need to be sorted through & deleted. They will push & push you to use the cloud & when you resist, they modify the app till it’s impossible to use properly. Videos that used to instantly load now pause & say that because you’re not using the cloud, you must wait for it to load. Despicable!

Worked great now I can’t sign back in.. contacted support and now they are giving me a runaround

The « Create Account » button is not working. I can’t install the product without it.

You have to use the app to create an account in order to use the cameras you purchased but when you click on “create account”, the app crashes!! When you create an account on their website, you can’t sign up in the app!! Worst app in the world!! Do not buy those cameras!

Depuis la nouvelle version, il est impossible de démarrer l’application sans donner notre numéro de téléphone. Incapable d’avoir du support par courriel pour contourner cette fonctionnalité cela rend mes caméras inutilisables. Pas de numéro sans frais pour obtenir du support. Impossible de choisir le mode d’authentification.

Once they started charging for their cloud service I installed a sync module 2 so I wouldn’t have to pay the monthly fee. Don’t bother, IT DOESN’T WORK. It’ll take tons of videos that you can only delete one at a time. It’s motion detection is unreliable. You won’t be able to play clips when it decides you “can’t access them at this time”. You’ll spend hours trying to troubleshoot this mess and end up doing what I did, throwing it in the trash.

This was great until it stopped working properly.

Décalage entre l’événement détecté et la notification. Et quand on tente d’ouvrir l’application pour s’adresser a l’individu qui est à la porte, il y a un bug, qui demande souvent d’éteindre et de rallumer l’app. OU qui cause un délai encore. DONC 100% du temps , l’individu a déjà quitté avant que ce ne soit possible de communiquer avec lui. Ce qui essentiellement rend cette application quasi inutile…

Hi Team. If I select zones to be not active I don’t get notifications for active zones if there is movement. Just a heads up. I like the app. Very easy to use and user friendly. Lots of great features to play around with to suit my needs.

Since the last update the Clips no longer displays the Storage Percentage as well as the Filter / Edit actions. Every clip has to be deleted one at a time. Extremely inconvenient and annoying.

Unless you sign up for the subscription, live recording is no longer available. Why would you take away something that was free before? I absolutely loathe Amazon and Blink now for this.

The cameras as useless after the free trial. This is a scam. Clips record when you try to use the USB but you can’t pay them.

We bought this because we don’t want a subscription. Now that the free period is over the feautures have changed. I cannot delete all clips at once which sucks. That is just one that is real pain.

Sa fais maintenant presque de 2 ans que j’utilise ce système et du jour au lendemain il faut payer un forfait par mois pour pouvoir enregistrer sans avoir averti a l’achat. 😡😡😡😡 le tout va aller au poubelle, MERCI BLINK 350$ POUBELLE POUR CHANGER DE SYSTÈME DE SÉCURITÉ!

App is so slow. Always lags to show any live video. Pretty useless as a video monitoring app. Need to get better.

After the fine print “subscription” end and wants money you might consider throwing it in the garbage

Bought A-LOT of these cameras for A-LOT of $ Now they are 100 percent completely useless , they no longer record anything at all without having to pay a monthly fee. Absolutely a disgusting move on the company’s side. I feel cheated and will no longer be supporting this shady company back to Lorex I go

Such a bad product with subscriptions becoming mandatory after having the product for more than a year… they should refund the purchase money… if subscriptions was mandatory, I wouldn’t have bought this product.

I won't even comment on the subscription you have to pay for recording, this streaming camera comes with the Blink app that never works correctly. Had crashes, slow controls, asks me to pay a subscription everytime i start the app. Don't even bother with this camera, get your money back and pay that extra $$ for a professional security camera.

So very disappointed in these. I bought the blink mini’s as a pet cam and it was great for the first few months, until they decided to take away the video clips. Now I get a useless notification that there was lotion, but can’t actually see what happened because it no longer records a video clip. My previous non-Amazon brand pet cam offered free 4 hour cloud storage, so I’ll be going back to that product. I won’t buy these again.

I’ve been using blink for over a year now. Paid $300 for the cameras at Best Buy, was told there was no subscriptions. Now just today I found out they want to charge me $150 each year to get the same abilities that I was getting for free before. The cameras aren’t anything special, I bought them cause they were cheap. Now they are trying to scam me into paying each month or year? NOT WORTH IT! I should be able to use them to the full abilities I have been for the past year, if I knew they were subscription cameras I wouldn’t have bought them in the first place.

Amazon can take their subscription fee and cameras and shove it!

They intentionally broke features of the app so you're forced to purchase their monthly subscription. They removed the preview picture from the recorded videos, you are unable to scroll through the clip on your phone, they slowed down clip retrieval from the USB sync module, they removed the ability to delete multiple clips at once, also when you live preview now it no longer records. I'm ready to throw these cameras in the garbage

Return your cameras & door bell now. Unless you pay Blink bricks your devices. We had a break in last night & just happens the trial ended & all recordings haven’t been saved cause they deactivated the cloud storage that was suppose to be free for life!! I’ve been robbed & had cameras & have no footage to give to the police or share with the community. This is a dangerous company with a scary business model that will cost someone their lives one day.

When we first bought our cameras we were pretty happy with them. Had some glitches but nothing to serious. We have now come to the end of our free trial which I completely forgot had to pay to self monitor. Honestly not sure why I would pay to self monitor…. But now trial is coming to an end, thumbnail fails, fail to arm fail to disarm etc etc… sync module offline the online and this happens daily. Cameras will no longer take pictures, not that they can’t but won’t it seems. Just swirls and swirls. Might actually switch to a monitoring system and pay the professional….

These cameras were great for the past two years, the free cloud account worked great. Now they are rendered useless. Greedy!!

I couldn’t even get past the create account page. It told me that both my emails were invalid!! What a pile of garbage…after reading the reviews I will be returning the cameras.

I don’t know if it’s a bug or a new “feature”, but I can’t use my local storage anymore. Amazon is forcing me to buy a subscription plan. The worst part is I had purchased a 64gb USB drive (even bought the Blink one to make sure it would be compatible) specifically for that purpose and it is now completely useless. Amazon literally sold me a product that has no possible use. Grand larceny.

We loved this app before they tried to extort us by reducing the video quality and download speed of USB storage to trick us into using their cloud which requires a subscription with fees.

Depuis vos mises à jours avec les forfaits ca va tres mal, je ne me rappel pas que lorsque je les ai acheté ça disais qu’il allait falloir s’abonner ….. il y a de ca deux ans …. Je les ai depuis deux ans et depuis vos mise a jours de forfaits ca va mal, vous avez downgrader tout le monde qui les avait depuis un certains temps …

Tout d’abord, il y a un bug avec le kit LED. L’interface affiche 0% de batterie après 1 utilisation. Quand on enlève les piles et on les remets cela revient à 100% et de nouveau affiche 0%. Ensuite, avec le cloud qui est payant il est possible de supprimer toutes les vidéos d’un coup. Cette option n’apparait plus quand on utilise le module en local. On accumule ainsi des centaines de vidéos car c’est très long de les supprimer un par un. Blink se targue d’être un produit amazon. Décevant, Amazon nous a habitué à mieux.

Did the update this morning and now the cameras don’t work and I can’t see anything happening at my home!!! 😡😡😡

These greedy counts had a great product that was perfect for me …. Not great quality but I could see what my dog was doing at home and who pulled in the drive way… or at least if a vehicle was there … anyway Now they want a subscription for something I’ve had for free for years … just the greedy ways of Amazon

Now only focussed on hogging money through subscription. The video feed takes forever to buffer now.

Beware those who are thinking of buying these cameras. Yes you get the free trial of cloud use but be warned if you intend to end up using USB storage for saving at home instead of the cloud. The app is kneecapped to try and force you to pay for the cloud. With the cloud all clips have a preview photo so you can see what was being recorded without actually playing it. This disappears with USB storage forcing you to have to watch each clip to see what was captured. Also, with cloud storage you can select all clips and then clear. With USB you must delete each, one at a time.

Have to press continue every 2 seconds just to watch the live feed. Why!?

Will be returning. Sometimes the camera notifications work but most often they don’t. I cannot purchase a subscription plan due to very bad communication with the Amazon website. Tech services was no help at all. They can’t find the problem.

Garbage app. Takes forever to load the live view. Plus can’t even view back on live view. Cheap cameras have better functionality than this one. You have to disconnect the usb from the hub at home to view the live feed… ridiculous.

If you don’t care about money, quality or service buy blink !!!

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