Decent Doorbell for the money
Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2023 | Rating: 4/5 | Best Sellers in Amazon Devices & Accessories
originally we purchased a ring doorbell which i loved initially until i realized it was stuck downloading firmware dealing with ring support i cut my losses and got this doorbell from blink quite literally 15th the price of the ringthe blink doorbell nearly fit in the same location which was nice now i only have a small hole where the ring unit was this doorbell only has 2 screw holes for securing it to the house less than ideal but still secure enough it is able to be wired into a regular doorbell transformer so i have it on ac power im not sure if it was meant to be able to ring an indoor ringer but i couldnt get it to work but also suspect the old indoor doorbell isnt functional it came with the house that was built in 86 so i wasnt hung up on that workinghowever this doorbell doesnt come with a ringer not really it will ring outside the unit itself will chime you will never hear it inside your house i mean i supposed its possible if you live in a tent blink has some indoor cams that will double as wireless door chimes get a set call it a day you wont be disappointedsupposedly you can get alexa to squack when someone rings the door bell also dont count on that working consistently its a nice thought dare to dream right we have 8 alexa devices throughout the house and maybe 1 in 10 doorbell rings will also ring on the alexa devices the blink indoor cams chime every time so again thats the best solutionthe doorbell also comes with a wedge if i remember correctly for turning the doorbell from being buried in a corner to face into your entry way a bit more but if there is siding or something that faces your doorbell towards the sky or something like that youll have to figure out a way to aim it more directly at visitors i ultimately removed a swatch of siding to mount the doorbell flush against the house and that was the best solution and viewing angleoverall video picture isnt bad motion detection is a bit sensitive but still tweaking that for the money you can forgive a lot of this doorbells short comings none of them are deal breakers but there are little things that you dont know about till you get your hands on onei will say this research your purchase if you already have ring stick with ring in order for most of these smart cams and doorbells to save videos you have to subscribe to blink or ring or whatever for their cloud storage typically its 4 per single device or 10 for unlimited devices per month originally i thought i had read that blink would allow 7200 seconds for video storage in their cloud without a subscription yes that is correct but only if you have what they call a legacy or grandfathered account so if this is your first blink device and you want clip storage in the cloud you will have to get the basic sub for that if you have other blink devices and a hub with usb flash memory storage you can live without the sub the nice thing about the cloud storage is you can manipulate your saved clips much easier than if you just have the hub and usb storage its a toss up depending on how much convenience you want just know that if you cant live without the cloud storage option you will be paying for a sub for each brand and apps for each to control them there isnt anything out there that can combine them all into one i didnt want to have blink and ring and  subs because thats getting expensive just to save clips so i opted to go with all blink devices