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The ultra-affordable, truly wire-free video home security & monitoring system!

So affordable and easy to setup, you will use it to protect your entire home! Blink is battery-powered and truly wire-free, so it’s simple to place and move within any indoor environment.

720p HD video capture ensures that you get a clear view of your home or business, with minimal distortion or blurring.

Blink’s feature-rich system includes a motion detector; when armed, any detected motion triggers the recording of a short video clip.

Quickly receive a push notification alert with a link to the video attached, so you can decide how to respond.

Easily access on-demand video streaming through the Blink app.

No Monthly Subscription Fee!

Peace of mind shouldn’t cost a fortune or come with a monthly price tag. Blink systems start at a price you can afford and our cloud storage service is free!

Runs on 2 AA Lithium Batteries for 2 Years!

You read that correctly. With regular use, your Blink cameras will last a very, very long time on a single set of 2 AA 1.5 volt non-rechargeable lithium batteries. This incredibly long battery life is made possible through a proprietary chip technology available only in Blink cameras.

Blink Now Integrates With Amazon Echo!

We are now fully integrated with Amazon Alexa-enabled devices including Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, and Amazon Tap. All Blink users who own these devices can now control their Blink system without lifting a finger, using voice alone.

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	Blink Indoor 1 Camera System	Blink XT2 Camera System
Price	From: -	From: -
Ratings	(11,522)	(66,032)
Free cloud storage
2-year battery life (AA)
2-way audio
Placement	Indoor only	Indoor and outdoor
Motion-activated instant-on recording
Works with Alexa
Image resolution	720p	1080p
Infrared night vision
Live streaming HD audio and video with push alerts
IP65-rated/weather resistant
Temperature monitoring

Technical Details

Field of view	110 degrees diagonal
Size	Camera diameter (71 mm), camera thickness (30 mm), overall height (71 mm)
Weight	.07 kg
CPU	Immedia Proprietary - ISI108, 4 / 100Mhz.
Power	Camera Battery: 2 1.5 volt AA lithium batteries. Sync Module Power: 100-200V AC to 5V DC converter included.
Battery Life	Two AA Lithium batteries last up to two years, based on 4,000 five-second events per year (or 40,000 total seconds of video recording, including Live View usage). Battery life will vary based on device settings, usage, and environmental factors. Actual results may vary.
Wireless	Single-antenna Wi-Fi with diversity. Supports public and private Wi-Fi networks that use the 2.4 Ghz 802.11g/n; does not support connecting to ad-hoc (or peer-to-peer) Wi-Fi networks.
Connection	Wifi, minimum 2 Mbps upload speed required
Available colors	White
Smart phone requirements	iOS 10.3, Android 5.0, or Fire OS 5.1

Blink App	The Blink Home Monitor App is compatible with Android and iOS devices in the US.
Included in the box	Blink Camera (dependent on quantity selected), Mounting Kit (1 per camera), AA 1.5v Non-rechargeable Lithium Batteries (2 per camera), Quick Start Guide (1), Sync Module (1), USB Cable (1), and Power Adapter (1).
Generation	1st generation – 2016 release
Camera resolution	Up to 720p Full HD Resolution
Camera frame rate	Up to 30 frames per second
Ports	Micro USB (optional for power)
Audio	One-way audio recording
LEDs	One blue LED to help you know when it's on.
Warranty and service	1-year limited warranty and service included. Use of Blink cameras is subject to the terms found here.
Support	Click here to view more information on the Blink support page.

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11,522 global ratings

5 star		69%
4 star		14%
3 star		8%
2 star		3%
1 star		6%

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smokeyandashes

Maybe ready for prime time now

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 30, 2016

Configuration: Indoor 2 Camera SystemVerified Purchase

I would really like to like Blink but unfortunately I can't recommend them at all. They just are not ready for prime time at this point. Here's why.

I first bought a two camera system to set up in my second house and it was very easy to set up. I loved it. At this point I would have given Blink 5 stars. But then because I liked it so much I decided to buy a five camera system. I would use two of the cameras to add to the existing system in my second house and then use the remaining three cameras and the sync module in my main house.

The main problem with Blink is that there is no way to contact them directly. You can't phone them, you can't chat with them, all you can do is send them a message and then they may respond to you in a day or so. But if you've got a problem that requires back and forth communication as I have, then it could take days to weeks to resolve. And their software is buggy enough that it probably will take days to weeks to resolve if indeed it can get resolved.

My first problem came with shipping. I was going to be at my second house for a week so I ordered the system more than a week before and specified delivery to that house. They don't give you any estimate as to when they will deliver or even what carrier they will use to deliver the product. After I got to the second house and the days slowly ticked away I realized that there was no way that I would receive the package there so I tried to contact Blink to ask them to change the delivery address. Seems simple enough. They haven't shipped yet so it should be simple to go in and change the shipping address but they were totally unable to do this simple thing. A couple of days later I got an email from them saying that it was going to ship to the second house, still with no delivery date specified. So once again I tried to contact Blink and ask them to change the shipping address but I got no reply whatsoever except the form response saying that they had received the email. No response from a human. Now I was getting worried. Here I was evidently going to have a $300 package delivered to my second house when I would not be there for more than a month. So I contacted them once more and finally got ahold of a real person (only via email) who actually did sort of solve the problem. I don't know what she did with the first system they sent out but they at least sent out a second system to my main house. She did that so quickly that it actually arrived a day before we got back so it sat on our front porch for a day. Luckily it was not stolen. This was my first indication that if anything goes even slightly wrong with Blink that your chances of getting a satisfactory resolution to the problem are pretty small.

But things got worse when I started installing the second system in my main house. First I installed the sync module with no problems. Then I added one camera with no problems. Then I moved the camera to the front of the house where I intended to use it and it showed that the WiFi signal levels were low so I decided maybe it would help if I moved the sync module a bit to try to get a better signal. This is when everything fell apart and everything I tried from this point on only made a bad situation get worse. When the sync module came online again the app was no longer in a state where I could see the signal levels which I needed in order to determine where to place the camera. I could see no way to view them so I decided that I would just delete the camera and then reinstall it. Seemed like a good simple solution to the problem. It was easy to delete it but when I tried to add it in again it said the camera already existed. So they hadn't really deleted it completely. I couldn't see the camera and I couldn't add it in again so I had a completely worthless camera. The next more drastic step was to delete the sync module and hopefully start all over from scratch. I was a little leery of doing this but decided that that was my only hope for getting the camera to be recognized by the system. After I did that, I now have no way to add the sync module in again. So now I have a completely dead system here. But wait, it gets worse. Somewhere along the way, I'm not sure where or how or when, the sync module at my second house went offline so it is now completely useless too. Actually, the whole setup for the second house has been deleted. I have now spent somewhere in the neighborhood of $500 for Blink products and at this point absolutely nothing works and given Blink's track record in responding to customer issues I have no hope of ever getting either system to work again.

After writing the above, I decided I would do a hard reset on the sync module and try one more time. In doing this I came across a couple of other software issues that make it difficult to get things set up. When you want to add a new system, the button to do it is off the bottom of the screen. It's not obvious at all that you have to swipe up to see the icon that you have to select to add a new system. Then when you are entering in the password for your WiFi network, it's not obvious what you have to do to get it entered. There is no Done button. You have to hit Enter after entering in the password before you will be able to see the Done button.

But once again things got worse. I was able to create a new system at my main house but now the system at the second house is completely gone but the two cameras that I set up there magically appeared as part of my system here. Never mind that I don't think that the WiFi signal from 200 miles away will reach here and there's no way that the cameras there will work with my system here but that's what Blink has given me.

If you have absolutely no problems or issues the Blink may work for you - the first system worked for me for a month or so with little problems other than occasionally losing track that it was in the armed state, but if you have any problems at all, forget it. It's over.

11/3/2016
Here's an update based on getting an actual one-to-one phone conversation with Gary from Blink. Although it took a long time to get that conversation, when Gary was on the line with me, he went to extraordinary lengths to make sure everything was okay. He did not try to hurry the process, he stayed on the line till everything was working. Well, not everything. He got the sync module and one camera working at my main house after deleting the two cameras that got merged over from my second house when its sync module got deleted. Later on I was able to add two more cameras to the system successfully. Unfortunately he was not able to get the system at my second house working since I will need to be physically present there in order to get it working. Nevertheless it was a step in the right direction. As I mentioned earlier, Blink is a work in progress and there are certainly lots of bugs in the system now and there needs to be improvements in the user interface. I like Blink - if it's working - and I'm hoping that they will succeed in fixing the bugs and improving the user interface. At this point I am cautiously optimistic that I will be able to get my two systems up and running and that they will both work as they should.

11/27/2016
I am now back at my second house and I re-installed the sync module, the two existing cameras, and the two new cameras I bought with zero problems. This is how things should work! I really don't know what kind of black hole I fell into when things fell apart but there have been numerous firmware upgrades to the product since then and it appears as if a lot of the kinks have been ironed out. At this point I am happy with the system again as I was after I installed the first system. Tech support is still minimal - the tech support guy wanted to help me with the install here so he told me to set up a phone consultation call in advance. When I tried to do that a week or two ago, all available dates through the end of December were taken so I just did it by myself and as I said, things went completely smoothly as they should.

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Not Bad as a supplemental security cam system. As a primary system, it falls short.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 10, 2016

Configuration: Indoor 3 Camera SystemVerified Purchase

*BATTERY UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE* 4/28/17
After 4 months another camera battery died. This is the failed reality of these camera. Battery level report from app is BS. If it dies, it doesn't even tell you it's dead, it show everything is okay but then just won't respond. I'd say expect 3-4 months usage per lithium battery.

*BATTERY UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE* 3/23/17
Using Lithium batteries after probably 3 months, my cameras still show a full battery. But this is deceptive. One of my cameras that's further away than most is shown having a full battery but isn't working. When I bring it closer to my sync module, it starts working and the battery shows at half. I put it back for a few days and it seems like it would catch an update, listing the battery at full, but not record. I try to update or live view and it gives me a command error. So distance, barriers like walls probably affect the camera.

*BATTERY UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE* 12/15/16
Ok, I'll admit, I've been using alkaline battery as the originals deplete, and still sucks. I've lost track but it seems like it dies every 2-3 months. Another issue is the damn unit doesn't even drain the battery all the way. When I replace the batteries, it's not atypical that I'd find one or two low, but not completely dead. Another part of this problem is their sensitivity setting stinks. I'll have it on the absolute lowest and it'll still go off all the time, just delayed. Also to note, the weaker the signal, it seems the batteries drain more. Under colder conditions, I'll also experience them not working. When the batteries die, still no notification or even indication. In the camera settings, the battery life just still read "in the red". Knocking a star off. I still think it's okay for versatility in limited security camera recording in areas without power, but lower your expectations WAY down.

*BATTERY UPDATE UPDATE* 9/2016
Blink announced a firmware update that will "double the battery life" of the camera. I'll believe it when I experience it.

*BATTERY UPDATE* 7/23/16
In less than 2 months in one of my cameras died. Apparently customer support tells me this cam logged over 20,000 seconds already. I didn't get a notification it was dying or died. Customer support also told me one of my cameras logged 10,000 seconds already but the battery icon read full. Rather misleading. Camera 2 died in 3 months. Another camera died after 5 and a half months. Another camera is logged at 4,000 seconds, which may die at 8 months at this rate. I'd say the one year battery claim is greatly exaggerated under normal use. You could probably stretch battery use by lowering the sensitivity below 4, reduce record time, but nobody tells us that. If this lived up to battery life, or the company were more conservative in estimates, I'd add another star.

Despite this, I actually like this product in terms of easy setup, wire-free freedom, easy to manage app. It provides fairly good footage for anything the motion sensors detect. But the battery life is something to be conservative about. And the recording capabilities have it's limits.

6/10/16
PROS
+Relatively Low Price (went up a little recently, boo!) When I bought: $99, $149, $199, $299, $60
+Easy to set up and use
+Wireless; can be placed anywhere
+AA lithium batteries commonplace
+Compact
+Free cloud storage up to 7,200 seconds
+Can plug cameras in to micro usb power
+Records simultaneously on multiple cameras
+Motion detection
+Bright LCD for day or night

CONS
-720p is so-so
-Poor Battery Life: 3-4 months in my real world usage.
-Not weatherproof; made for indoor use
-No infrared light for discreet night vision
-Can’t turn off blue recording light
-10 second clip record limit, 10 second delay
-Can’t record and live view at same time.
-So-so Mount
-Tricky back cover/mount removal
-Lag

WHAT COULD BE BETTER
Change to set the clip length by motion detection instead of a time limit
Preserve the 1 year battery life
Waterproof for outdoor use
Keep the price low
Infrared Night Light
If the Blink Camera added these features in the future, I’d give this four-five stars.

USAGE
If you’re using this for security, because of the 10 second time limit, I think it’s better thought of as a good supplement for a “real” limitless record time security system. It’s for getting better angles from those “hard to reach” places. Don't get me wrong, I would recommend this security system but with caveats and limitations. All in all, not a bad system to have.

If you’re using this to monitor a live stream, this works okay, but unfortunately, you can’t live view and record at the same time.

If you’re using this to capture wildlife activity clips, I guess it’s not bad; though if you’re using this outdoors, it’s at your own risk since they’re not waterproof.

DESIGN
It’s plastic, but not flimsy. Still, I wouldn’t want to drop one of these.
They’re small, but a bit chunky. A bit of elegance, but it’s no Apple product. Maybe they could’ve gone more vertical to add more batteries and maybe slim down. I do like the flat design rather than the "bullet" camera design.
Removing the back cover of the camera was initially tricky; after flipping the bottom release tab, the thing doesn’t just come off easy. You have to angle and pull/wiggle downwards a bit to get it off. And to put it back on, you have to put the top part in first, push up in the right spot, and snap close.

A hole on the back of the camera can be covered easy or affixed with a mount that snaps in pretty easy. Removing the mount isn’t easy. If I just try to pull the mount off, it feels like I’m going to break it. I can also remove the back cover, and with some difficulty, push it out from the inside. If you pull hard enough though, it comes out. Be careful to not let it fly out of your hands though. The mount’s connection to the sticky plate can be quite difficult to rotate, it’s very stiff. The hinge swivel is easy and you can tighten it with a screwdriver. The mount connection to the back of the camera allows for easy rotation. But if you want a certain angle, you’d best set it before sticking it anywhere. This isn't an easy dismount. Since this runs on batteries, the ease to dismount to change batteries is important.

WIRELESS
The cameras can be powered by either AA batteries that are included but also wire powered through micro usb. So if you really don’t want to use or worry about batteries, you don’t have to. The wire connection can get in the way of the mount, however.
I think it is best used for getting a security camera placed wherever you want (that’s dry) without having to worry about wires.

One year battery life with “standard use,” defined as 20,000 seconds per year. That’s like 4-5 ten second clips per day. I don’t think that’s a lot. Will update in the future…

VIDEO
720p video is not the best resolution by 2016 standards. It reminds me of Digital 8. 1080p full HD would be preferable.
I think most people would use this for security purposes. 90 degree viewing angle’s okay, Sometimes, it's choppy.

RECORDING
If you own more than one camera, and trigger both at the same time, both cameras record simultaneously, which I thought was cool.

A camera only records up to 10 seconds. After the camera finishes recording, there’s a 10 second minimum delay before it can start recording again. You can set this delay up to 60 seconds if you want to be weird or save battery. A set clip length isn’t the right approach; motion detection should determine the clip length. The intention is to capture movement, after all.

Up to 10 second clips are probably good for identification; capturing someone’s face or body. If you’re lucky, you’ll capture a crime or event in the act.
Rotating the camera on its side gets more video vertically. This way, I get more info on what a person is wearing or increase the chances of capturing tall and short people.

There's no time stamp on the video. The time, date are listed on the cloud, but when you download the file, it only shows the download date on the file.

I really like the idea of placing this camera in more unique places, like at eye level, to capture people’s faces instead of a high angle. Even at a low angle to keep an eye on mail is cool.

Audio is a one way capture and sounds decent, but rather sub-par. Like a recording of a recording. An ambient air noise is present.

It does have an LCD light for night scenes, which is kind of nice in a way to see night in true colors or to startle burglars but it’s not discreet.
Lots of people complain about the little blue light that turns on when it records, I’m not as bothered by it but users should be given the option to turn it off for more discrete recordings.

STORAGE
Cloud storage is free up to 7,200 seconds. I like! Once it reaches that, it overwrites the oldest clip.
I haven’t tried it but you can also supposedly store on the sync module with a USB drive.
You can also download, via email/social media. The files are small; like 500KB. Maybe that’s why the clips look like Digital 8.

CONNECTIONS
You have to worry about two receptions, the Wi-Fi reception and the sync module reception.

The app is a bit slow when you’re setting preferences or viewing videos. When I was testing the cameras, it had me waiting like 30 seconds to switch on the motion detection setting. Probably my wi-fi wasn't strong enough. I know it has to go through wi-fi, sync module connections but man, I wish it were better. Even viewing video clips, you have to “download” it to stream. *update* after changing my wifi to "eero" routers, speed got more reliable and coverage wider, but if the signal is weak, it will still affect responsiveness.

I don’t know how secure these connections are. I actually had trouble syncing because I thought I had to enter a password for the module sync since there’s one printed on it but I didn’t. I kept resetting and resyncing and finally just let it be.

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