Customers are pleased with the camera's quality, ease of use, and bright floodlight. Many also found installation straightforward and appreciated the affordability. While some experienced connectivity issues and the absence of local storage without an additional module was noted, the positive feedback on the camera's performance outweighs the negative. The app's user-friendliness could be improved according to some users.
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Pros mentioned:
Camera quality, Overall performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great product
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Posted . Owned for 3 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Great quality of video and does the job. Light is bright but definitely not annoying lol and can be adjusted, light definitely lights up our street and help our house and our neighbors to feel secure.
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Very easy install. Easy to use. Great value.
I have used other platforms from the competition that are far more expensive, and it does not compare to the quality, especially for the price that this camera and light provide
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Overall performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Blink outdoor camera
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This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
This product is fantastic. I bought three two years ago and they work well, and today I bought two more. It lives up to its promises, plus they have technical support and their customer service is efficient.
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I purchased 3 of these lights which were installed around my house. They work on and off and I am not sure why. I have brought an electrician to check the electrical wires and everything checks out. One of the lights got some liquid inside even thought these are water proof. How did the water get inside? No idea. The light was installed in an area that does not receive direct rain unless it rains really hard and the wind blows the water horizontally. I must say I am disappointed as they are expensive. Now I have a paper weight as the return period has expired by some months.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Camera quality
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
To see how is by your house
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
This camera is good for put up on your garages and the back of house and this camera make sure to see my kids going to and arriving from schools and to make sure how is by your house and it easy to set it up
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Nice, bright white light and motion sensor works well. We have a total of nine different blink cameras scattered throughout the interior and exterior of our home. It takes a bit of effort to get the motion zones dialed in to ignore inconsequential signals from the whole backyard (birds, wind, etc) so we've left the motion sensor off as a result.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Camera quality, Ease of use
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great camera
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Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.
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Clear video easy set up I would recommend it to anyone
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Camera quality
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Excited
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Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I havent been able to install them. But will soon. Someone broke a big glass pickle jar behind my truck. If we had the camera up we may of seen who did it.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Camera quality
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Amazing clarity due to good lighting.
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Posted . Owned for 8 months when reviewed.
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Amazing camera! Lights up good at night to clear things up. The sensor is way better than regular cameras, not excellent.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Floodlight
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Definitely will buy more
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Fiancé got this on a Black Friday sale to replace an older camera. It is on our front light. He loves it and plans to add more
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Camera quality
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Wonderful
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Posted . Owned for 5 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
excellent cameras very good price highly recommended
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Good item will recommend easy to install. Will buy another
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Floodlight, Installation
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Clear video/audio, bright light, easy install
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We’ve been Blink wireless security camera users for a couple years now, and this is our first wired product from the company that we’ve added to our home security system. This floodlight camera is replacing an existing motion activated floodlight (without camera) that we have mounted above our garage facing into our driveway. Since the wiring and electrical box were already in place, installing the wired Blink floodlight/camera combo was simple and straightforward. The only thing we had to swap out after removing our old floodlight was the mounting bar behind the fixture.
Once the unit was wired up, we flipped the circuit breaker back on and the camera powered up and went into “setup mode.” Adding it to the Blink mobile app only took a couple of taps, and the instructions were easy to follow; we were ready to go in under 15 minutes from unboxing. There are two bright LED lights to provide up to 2600 lumens (combined) of illumination. The lights can be swiveled up to 90° left/right and up/down to point in the directions you need them to face and their brightness adjusted in the app. The camera itself sits below the lights, and its position is also adjustable on an articulating ball joint.
Since the device comes with a 30-day free trial of a Blink Subscription Plan, during this time you’ll have access to unlimited cloud video recording and 60 days of cloud storage, extended live view and live recording, and photo capture. When the trial ends, you’ll be limited to live view only without recording unless you either purchase an ongoing subscription or use a Sync Module 2 (sold separately) that allows you to save motion captures locally to a USB thumbdrive, up to 256 GB. The floodlight is also compatible with the first generation of Sync modules which included a limited amount of free cloud storage (for grandfathered users).
Note though that the system must be “armed” in order to enable the motion detector to trigger both recordings and the floodlight. Alternatively, you can set the lights to go on from dusk to dawn. When set to motion triggered, the floodlights will only go on if it is sufficiently dark and the area of activation is about 15-20 feet away from the camera. It can detect motion up to 143° diagonally from the unit, however, motion farther away, for example in the street past our driveway or the neighbor’s yard across the street, does not set off the motion sensor and motion zones cannot be user defined.
The resolution of the camera at 1080p HD is clear and detailed, and during the day the colors are accurate and well saturated. We can make out the license plates of the cars parked in our driveway and identify people’s faces. Motion sensitivity can be set from 1 to 9 and set to record all motion, people only (with a subscription), or ‘nothing’ for notifications only without recordings. Even at the highest sensitivity, small things like bugs flying in front of the camera don’t trigger the motion sensor, which really helps cut down on nuisance notifications. Audio quality in the recorded video files is clear and crisp, but in app playback you can hear digital artifacts and distortion in the compressed audio stream.
At night, the infrared lights kick in to illuminate the image which becomes black and white, but you can still see a lot of detail. The only issue may be with highly reflective or white surfaces as these can get washed out; adjusting the IR “illuminator” settings from low/med/high or off may help. When the floodlight comes on, color gets added back to the image, though can appear undersaturated and lighter colors get washed out. However, the light provides two primary benefits, as a deterrent for trespassers and as a pathway light when we come home at night. The floodlights are plenty bright to see by, providing enough illumination to avoid trip hazards in the dark.
In the app, you can view, download, and share video and image captures. You can also enable 2-way audio, as the camera has a speaker that also doubles as a loud 105 decibels siren that you can manually trigger for 30 seconds during live view. Note that the siren's volume and duration are not adjustable though you can manually stop it by tapping the Siren Off button or exiting the live view. However, in my testing of the 2-way audio from the Android app, while I could hear the audio feed from the camera, the audio that should have come out of the speaker on the camera either never gets transmitted (even with speaker volume set to the max) or cuts out after a few seconds, making this feature unusable.
Overall, this floodlight camera was very easy to install and use, when replacing an existing outdoor floodlight. The LED floodlights are bright, the motion sensor adequately sensitive, and the video/audio recorded is high quality, clear, and detailed. The only feature we couldn’t get to work well was the 2-way audio, which isn’t a dealbreaker for us, since we don’t think we’d have used it often. As existing Blink users with a Sync Module 2, we appreciate being able to save recordings locally without a paid subscription. We also like that the system is integrated with Alexa so we can bring up the video feed on our screens or change its settings with voice commands and in the Alexa app.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Good item. It was very fast shipping. I am recommended this