Customer Ratings & Reviews

I’ve been on the lookout for a floodlight camera for a while now because the area I live has no streetlights and I have a long driveway that needs more lighting. This was the perfect solution as it covers both aspects of security and lighting for my property. The lights are adjustable up down left and right and move independently of one another so you can ensure all angles you want are covered. The camera snaps directly to the housing and also has some limited maneuverability and an attachment for different applications such as horizontal or vertical mounting. My first nit comes from the need for the separate sync hub in order to connect the camera to the internet. I assume this is to preserve the battery life of the massive D batteries in the housing which reportedly last up to two years, but it’s an extra piece of equipment that you have to plug into your home somewhere. If you are already on the ecosystem then it makes sense, but it seems a little needy. Additionally, you need to plug a USB flash drive into this sync hub in order to have file storage. There is also a cloud plan that comes at an extra cost. Accessing the files is simple from the app though. As mentioned before, it has some big batteries in it and that makes this a chonky boy. I’m a little worried about the way it’s mounted to my siding, but hopefully it holds up for the long term. I also recommend getting the camera in white. I got the black and it really stands out against our house.

Lights go off multiple timea all night for reason and no motion detected. Tried resetting and put new batteries in but it keeps happening. Burns through a new set of D cell batteries in a 4 days, Waiting to see if blink support has any ideas but as is the camera works good, just the light hardware is pointless garbage to be honest. Wish it had a solar panel to replace the batteries being draining fast. Would save time having to climb the ladder.

The Blink Outdoor Battery Powered 1080p Security Camera is a wire free camera with floodlights. Setup required that the camera be charged before connection to the floodlight base which contains 4 D cell batteries. Blink claims that the unit gets up to 2 years battery life with the included batteries. The other battery powered security cameras (2 brands) I use require that I get out a ladder, unmount them, recharge them, climb the ladder to remount them about every 2 months depending on the activity. Any amount significantly longer than my current cameras would be great, but two years would seem miraculous. There is a slide in mount on the base of the floodlight/battery unit. Mounting screws and anchors are included. There is also a drill free mounting plate that works with siding products. While setup was not difficult, I didn't find a clear instruction that stated that the camera snaps into the floodlight base. I kept looking for an adapter and trying to screw it in. I was also a bit confused connecting the camera to the included sync unit. The sync unit connects to your network and then to the camera. To me it seemed that the instructions wanted to connect to my home network again while it really wanted to connect to the camera. After my minor setup confusion, I found that the camera performs great as does the app. The camera covers my entire front courtyard and detects motion much faster than my current camera or my past camera. My current and past cameras usually do not activate until someone has entered the courtyard, placed the package near the door and is almost out the gate. My current camera often only records a video of the backside of a person exiting the gate. I love the "person" setting that only records when a person is detected. One of my current cameras has this feature but it rarely records anything when on this setting even when I know people have been present. While I do miss the recordings of the birds and animals that visit, I do not miss the recordings of plants swaying in the breeze that my current cameras get. The "person" detection in this Blink camera works as it should! The Blink camera captures almost the entire visit. This camera records at 1080p, half the stated resolution of my current camera yet has a clearer image in daylight, night vision and with the spotlights on. The camera has wider field of view than my current camera. Another great thing about this camera is that the notifications are almost instantaneous, and I am able to view the new recording very quickly. My current camera often takes a couple of minutes to allow me to see the new recording. The included sync unit connects up to 10 cameras to the system and has a USB port that allows local storage of the recordings to a user supplied thumb drive. There is a trial of their cloud storage program included. There is a live view option for those times that you just feel the need to have a look. While this camera is pretty new to me, it is a great improvement over my current camera systems. The imaging is better, the notifications are faster, it is quicker to allow viewing and hopefully the battery life is somewhere near what is advertised. I haven't yet tried out the cameras functions with Alexa or the audio functions but those two things should only make a great camera better.

This is very easy to install, and use , safe for my house

Great little system it lights up well enough to see

This product was a good idea for me and the visual clarity is perfect displaying the surrounding.

Does not stay charged. Goes “offline” constantly. Does not pick up “people” until they almost past, regardless of setting changes.