- Blink Outdoor is a wire-free battery-powered HD security camera that helps you monitor your home day or night with infrared night vision.
- With long-lasting battery life, Blink Outdoor runs for up to two years on two AA lithium batteries (included).
- Blink Outdoor is built to withstand the elements to help you protect your home indoors or out, come rain or shine.
- Get motion detection alerts on your phone with the option to customise motion zones in the Blink Home Monitor app so you’re only alerted when you need to be.
- See, hear and speak to visitors with Live View in real time and two-way audio features on your Blink Home Monitor app (live view is not continuous).
- Designed so you can set it up yourself in minutes. No wiring or professional installation required.
- Works with Alexa: use your voice to monitor your home through supported Alexa-enabled devices.
- Choose to save and share clips in the cloud with a free 30-day trial of the Blink Subscription Plan or locally with the Sync Module 2 and USB drive (sold separately).
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Tanfin5 –
Easy to connect, app is great. Super value for money, picture and sound quality is perfect and easy to mount.
John –
Bought 4 outdoor cameras and doorbell
whilst using the 30 day trial the system worked really well – live notifications of movement, live view of video clips in the app (very easy to set up)
ensuring you have strong wifi is key as is having a sync module otherwise when the subscription ends you cant get videos anymore !!!
so using sync module with usb stick allows you to save videos to it -HOWEVER when your subscription stops then things change.
the motion detection becomes very slow – often taking minutes
clips dont appear in the app for some minutes
motion detection becomes slow – often taking minutes
Blink support will tell you its your slow internet speeds – no its not – its the fact that the system needs to read the video file from the usb via the sync module through your wifi to your mobile device
if your not close to your router this takes some time, but even if you are close to your router its still much slower than within the 30 day trial (which uses Amazon cloud servers) on the same wifi connection !!
so it would appear that Amazon purposely slow down the system if you dont subscribe which is £25 per device or £80 per system (large number of devices) per year
That said i still like it – easy to set up, as long as cameras not too far from router, easy app, good day-time images, average to poor night time (ive added PIR lights for motion detection within camera area), yes do get some false motion detection especially when area viewed changes from sun to shade and things move (not people or animals) which get hot /cold due to solar gain.
Michael G. –
Sync Module 2 makes set up a breeze – though it’s a little disappointing that if you wanted an indoor and outdoor “network” for your cameras if you wanted to have your indoor only turned on via “arm” setting in the app, whereas the outdoor to come on automatically (also able to be set on by the app on demand) via a schedule every night. The cameras are easy to position and adjust, and work as I’d expect.
The reality is that these systems are best described as a modern version of the old fashioned security lights. They’re not going to prevent crime (as they’re not likely to be aware its there if it doesn’t have a flood light!); they’re unlikely to help solve it either in the majority of cases (again, at night, it’s unlikely to be amazing evidence for the police unless something was close to it). As the Police have pointed out – people expect that having one of these means crime can be solved easily, or will never happen. Neither are true statements. However, peace of mind is valuable, and this can definitely provide that.
So what it will do is ping you alerts when motion triggers it. Whereas the old fashioned security lights would just illuminate the area and you’d happily sleep through it, these actually alert you, and better yet, let you see *what* it was that alerted it. That’s really useful.
First thing to note is that even at high setting, the detection of movement is good to about 6 or 7m. Beyond about 7m it didn’t even alert/record myself and the police officer walking up the yard to the house in midday daylight. So it’d have never caught the thieves who stole the vehicle at a range of 20m from the house (and it absolutely wouldn’t have provided any means to identify them either at that range anyway). So, temper expectations.
The night vision works *fine* in the limited range, as long as you’re not expecting to identify the type of earring people are wearing. No, it’s not going to be as clear as day, obviously, as night “vision” requires *some* light to work anyway – and as the range increases, the illumination from the led is less effective. Again, it’s more about motion detection with an alert and ability to examine, than post-crime evidence. Use floodlight option as well, but I’d recommend having a power connection.
If buying for the purpose described above, it’s great. Really, it *is* great. The cat can wake me at 2am when it wants in. It will give peace of mind if you really think people are rambling through your property overnight (they aren’t). Just remember that the “night vision” still requires light to work… just very low levels of it, and you’ll likely need to replace batteries frequently. The “2 years” is in the case that it’s up and not triggered at *all* for 2 years remember.
The battery *may* die fast if you intend to have it armed/on all the time, or checking lots of “live” views to check in and so on. You can (in the app) set zones to ignore and so on to try and improve motion trigger issues – and think where you place it (e.g. central heating exhaust + wind means it can trigger with white clouds coming across it’s view). My recommendation is set schedules or turn on when you leave, that way it will be on when you *need* it to be and the batteries last. The rest of the time is pointless.
The indoor camera is excellent as not many indoor ranges are great, but I only ever have that working when leaving the house (as a means to alert to entry). I hope it never gets triggered 🙂
So, overall, after buying in a sale, its worth it as long as you buy being fully aware of how it works and not expecting incredible 4k footage and daylight conditions in the dead of night. Expect what it is – a glorified motion detection system that gives you peace of mind, and *may* be useful in the event you were an unfortunate victim of crime.
Also, you can just use the app to shout at people via the speaker if you’re so inclined…
Scott –
These are so handy, and much better value than other cameras I use.
The battery life is brilliant – just remember to use the correct LITHIUM batteries when they finally run out as you won’t get away with normal batteries.
The best thing for me is that you can have a local storage option (with an SD sync module) rather than relying on subscription. The app isn’t great and the camera quality isn’t market leading but more than good enough for the price. Very happy with them.