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I have a cabin that is located in a small town ( that is being generuse pop about 100) on the Canadian border.. Because of the remoteness I wanted some form of security and monitoring system, fortunately the area has internate service. I went to Amazon to see what was available at a reasonable cost for indoor plug in cameras. There were a number of brands including Rink which I use at home. Then I ran across Blink, I liked the style and the reasonable price of the Mini compact indoor plug in camera and the Mini indoor Pan-Tilt rotating camera. Also the yearly subscribtion which would cover an unlimited number of devices and has a number of services : 1. Motion activate notification by cell phone 2. Extended live view, continuous for 90 minute 3. Live view recording 4. Unlimited cloub storage of videos for 60 days and a number of others services, all for about $120 a year as compared to one device coverage for about $40 a year. Since I was going to have more than 3 devices or cameras I took the Blink Plus plan. As far as connecting the cameras to the internet just follow the directions and in about two minute your camera will be on-line. Then you can adjust the setting for each camera for motion detection area, sensitivity and other features. The camera have a good quality picture on my Iphone. The cameras have worked fallessly for the last 3 years. Because of the remoteness of the area, there are numberous power outages. When the internet comes back on the camera have always come back on too. when you are serveral hundred milec away you just can not drop by and reset the cameras. I check them all the time on my Iphone thru the BlinkApp, make setting adjustments, review video clips we no problems. A great product at a fair price, good quality, simple functionality that does the job. Will buy again

We love this. The security and video game quality is amazing. The connectivity is perfect and easy to set up. All the features work best and better quality videos and pictures if purchase membership. Well worth the money. So glad it came as a set with the doorbell. Much cheaper and and affordable.

I absolutely love the Blink Mini camera! It’s compact, super easy to set up, and the video quality is excellent for everyday home monitoring. The motion detection works perfectly and sends instant alerts to my phone, which gives me great peace of mind when I’m away. The night vision is clear, and the live view loads quickly every time I check it. It’s the perfect camera to keep an eye on my home, pets, or any room I want to monitor. For the price, the performance is outstanding. I highly recommend the Blink Mini — affordable, reliable, and incredibly easy to use!

The Blink Mini is super easy to set up — it connects to WiFi fast, and I had it running in just a few minutes. The video quality is surprisingly good for the price, and I like that I can check everything right from my phone. The downsides: you pretty much need a paid membership to get all the features, which is annoying. Also, the live feed runs a few seconds behind real time, so there’s definitely a delay. Overall, it’s a nice little camera for basic home monitoring. Great setup, good quality, just be ready for the lag and the membership cost.

Have a Blink camera system in my home and bought these to add for additional coverage. They're affordable and function great! Once plugged in and connected to home wifi (easy to do), they offer good visibility during daylight or nighttime hours. While they're not "pan and tilt (or zoom)" cameras, they can be positioned easily by swiveling and/or tilting the camera on its stand to get the view you want, and depending on your setup and customization, you can get notifications when the camera is triggered by motion and/or video clips can be saved. Occasionally, I have used the app remotely to speak to someone and the sound quality in the speaker and the mic sound pickup is pretty good. These are a good value for the price and can give you peace of mind if you want to keep an eye on your pet or your home when you're not there.

Proud of is amazing.Honestly , better than the first set that I purchased the audio output actually works compared to the other set that I purchased years ago... The vision is clear night vision's perfect sound, perfect, easy.Install perfect.. I plan on purchasing about four more

We purchased our first Blink Home Security Camera July of 2018. We were going out of the country and wanted to make sure our 18 year old son closed the garage door and locked the house. It did the job and we felt better knowing while on the other side of the world we could monitor our home. The following Summer we were so happy with our indoor system, we decided to purchase 2 outdoor cameras with the 2 way audio, and were so happy with the video and audio quality, we bought another add on outdoor camera, the next month. A year later we found the mini indoor cameras. We have one for a child's bedroom and one for the playroom. The video and audio quality is great. A year after that we bought another 3 outdoor Cameras, again video and audio quality is great. Just before Christmas 2021 Blink came out with the doorbell camera, and we purchased it. One, because it was blink and 1/2 the price of a ring doorbell camera. Two, because the doorbell that came with our new build home was so quiet, we couldn't ever hear the bell ring. In total we now have... 3 Indoor battery powered 2 Indoor mini corded power 6 Outdoor battery powered 1 doorbell wired to exciting doorbell. Cameras purchased... July 17th, 2018 Blink Indoor Home Security Camera System with Motion Detection, HD Video, 2-Year Battery Life and Cloud Storage Included - 3 Camera Kit https://www.amazon.com/dp/B018HC6PVA/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_E4N35AJJXM4QAYYN1S03?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 July 15th, 2019 Blink XT2 Outdoor/Indoor Smart Security Camera with cloud storage included, 2-way audio, 2-year battery life – 2 camera kit https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MN67BCR/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_2VZV3YZ7F3X4F5WSF9SF?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 August 20th, 2019 Blink XT2 Outdoor/Indoor Smart Security Camera with cloud storage included, 2-way audio, 2-year battery life – Add-on camera for existing Blink customers https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07M8DTHGL/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_7XGZ93G8PTGGNHTNBGEK?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 November 22nd, 2020 Blink Mini – Compact indoor plug-in smart security camera, 1080 HD video, night vision, motion detection, two-way audio, Works with Alexa – 2 cameras https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07X27VK3D/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_dl_0CVS1GZCPQPJE577M0JV?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 August 3, 2021 Blink Outdoor - wireless, weather-resistant HD security camera, two-year battery life, motion detection, set up in minutes – 3 camera kit https://www.amazon.com/dp/B086DKSHQ4/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_dl_9F09K8M142MATNJY1C7P?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 November 29th, 2021 Introducing Blink Video Doorbell | Two-way audio, HD video, motion and chime app alerts and Alexa enabled — wired or wire-free (Black) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08SG2MS3V/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_dl_JTH38J37N7ST707FMW4P?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 Blink offers two subscription plans. 1 Blink device $3 per month or $30 annually Unlimited Blink devices $10 per month or $100 annually You do not have to have a Blink Subscription if you do not choose to, but you won't be able to store videos. With the subscription you are even able to share your videos by text, or email. To neighbors, Friends, Family, and even the police department. Cons/irritations When an outdoor camera faces the sun at any point of the day, the motion detection will go off, until you adjust the motion activity spots in the camera settings. This can take a few days to work out the kinks. Indoor mini cameras the motion activity spots don't always work. Sometimes it will go off when there is motion in the grayed out zones, and sometimes not go off in the non-greyed out zones. This maybe human error on our part. We are looking for a longer cord for the mini's to mount on the wall or ceiling. The are options to rotate the camera view, so that you are able to mount the camera wherever you need. Overall we are happy with our Blink system and hope the company continues to grow and come out with new products. Compared to my parents very very expensive Arlo system, Blink is more reliable, and is more cost-effective. So much so, my parents have ditched the Arlo camera system and have purchased a new Blink system. We highly recommend Blink to anyone who would like to have a home video camera system that works, and won't break the bank. We love that you can start out small and work your way in to as much as you want/need.

UPDATE 9/13/20 What I feared - and predicted - would happen came to pass. Last Friday, 9/11/20, my landlord called me and asked me to review the footage on my cameras because another tenant had seen someone on the premises behaving suspiciously. I checked my Blink Mini app on my cell phone and sure enough. NOTHING. As usual, the cameras had STOPPED WORKING the night before sometime around midnight. As a result, there was nothing recorded during the day on Friday. Nothing. A few days earlier, I spoke to Amazon who said that, since the 30 day window had passed, there was nothing they could do. They suggested I deal directly with Blink, even though Bling is OWNED BY AMAZON, supposedly. I called Blink "tech support" (laughable) at the number the Amazon rep gave me. I wound up wasting 35 minutes with a woman who knew nothing about the Blink system, could barely speak English, and whose background sounded like she was rattling pots and pans in her kitchen. She asked me to hold a few times and, so help me, it sounded like all she was doing was rattling things around to give the appearance that she was actually doing something. As I've mentioned before, the Blink Mini cameras UTTERLY FAIL at their primary, stated, function: to provide you peace of mind relative to home security. Neither Amazon nor Blink will be of any help to you in getting your issue resolved and the only thing you will have accomplished it to waste your money. It's too late for me but if you are considering purchasing this system, I advise you in the strongest possible terms to look elsewhere. You may want to shop at Costco since they have a very liberal return policy. I hope people get to read this review since it appears Amazon has obscured many one-star reviews from site and only a few show up on the Blink Mini page. Do not waste your money on this camera. UPDATE 9/2/20 I received an email on 7/28/20 from a Blink employee named Haitham. In part, he wrote: "I would like to clarify that we are fully aware of this issue where the camera will stay on the night mode and not fully recognize that it has to switch to the day mode, and that will mostly happen in the early morning once the sun rises. We are working one the fix and it should come automatically to your camera. In the meantime as a work around, you may need to schedule disarming the system in the early morning and arm it back right after." As of today, ZERO has happened. I want to be clear that the Blink mini camera can be a genuine hazard to your well being because of this issue. It simply goes off a ledge around midnight and NEVER wakes up unless you remember to wake it. This means you could be away from home and be burglarized. You think you're covered because you have the Blink camera system only to discover that it has recorded absolutely nothing. The worst case scenario is you and your family go out to dinner. While you're out, intruders get into your home. Since the camera stopped working at midnight yesterday, you are completely unaware you have unwelcome guests until you return home and walk in on them. In short, this system poses a danger to your well being because it fails in its stated purpose. Since Blink has done nothing to correct this problem, which is purely software based, you will be taking your chances by purchasing this system. ORIGINAL REVIEW: I purchased a two-pack of the Blink Mini. What attracted me was the low cost of the item. They were $35 each or the two-pack for $65. Turns out I might just as well have taken $65 and thrown it out the window. Of a moving car. I only set up one camera by a window, looking out through the glass. I was very happy to see that the motion sensing worked and it should have since all it's doing is noting changing pixels. I was also happy to see that the microphone was sensitive enough to pick up what was being said on the other side of a dual-paned window. However, for some reason the camera decided to stop working or, more specifically, to stop sensing and recording motion. I first noticed this when I fired up the Blink app and noticed that all the clips were tagged "Yesterday" and none from "Today". It turns out that, for some reason, the camera seems to decide that its work is done sometime around midnight. Beyond that, it will NOT record ANY video UNLESS I proactively disarm and re-arm the motion sensing on the camera via the app. Alternatively, I can do a "Live" view to see what the camera is seeing, also through the app. Both of these actions have the effect of seeming to "wake" the camera up to a new day. From that point on, it will continue working as normal. Until midnight. At that point the whole process begins again. Another odd thing is that it records video - when it decides to actually work - only for a specified period of time, between 5 and 30 seconds. It OUGHT to work like motion sensing lights that turn on and remain on for a specified period of time BUT will stay lit if it continues to sense motion. These cameras should continue recording if the motion they detected continues or resumes within the designated video clip length. In other words, if you set a clip length of 15 seconds and 12 seconds into it the motion resumes, it should keep recording until there is no motion. The point of these cameras is to be able to set them up and forget about them until you are notified it senses motion. In this regard, the system is a complete failure. I tried power cycling the camera by physically disconnecting it from the power supply then reconnecting. Nothing. I tried deleting the camera from the app and re-installing it. Nothing. It's got nothing to do with the app because it has no physical connection to the camera. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app and all the camera settings I had previously set were still intact, so it ain't the app. As a last resort I did the unthinkable: I called "tech support". What I got was a call center somewhere in the Philippines and one of those maddeningly persistently cordial persons who is anything BUT "tech support". I finally just let him believe he actually helped me and ended the call. So here I am without a functional camera system and, of course, well past the return date. The bottom line here is that this system, ostensibly meant to alert you if there is an intrusion into your home, simply CANNOT be relied upon for that purpose. Your home could be broken into and you would be none the wiser. You would be much better off to do your research and purchase a system that, while potentially more expensive, will at least serve its stated purpose. This one does not.