Two of these have been great to track deliveries and visitors
Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2022 | Rating: 4/5 | Best Sellers in Amazon Devices & Accessories
we have a front door that drivers keep leaving packages at despite an easy to read please deliver all packages to back door sign mounted at eye level in front of the steps to the door we also have a nonfunctional front door with steps railing and door knob all removed that theyve left packages under sometimes even on the door to our deck on the opposite side of the house from the driveway with no sidewalk leading there we got 2 of these doorbells to see where tf they go in the front of the house when packages are not delivered to the back door as directed and to monitor the back door the front door had a wired bell with a bad button so it barely worked the rear door did not have one so we previously used a simple wireless doorbell after missing a ups package that required a signature we found the chime batteries were dead and decided it was time with the blink cameras we could at least monitor battery life via the app and get alerted to a delivery if we werent close enough to hear the chime or if the package was just dropped without ringing the doorbellwe love being able to see whats going on or what activity there was near a door and even get an alert when someone pulls into our driveway due to the range of coveragehowever the documentation is confusing with both wired to our existing chime the cameras report external power ok instead of battery ok so im not sure how to monitor battery life documentation on that is lacking and the notification settings dont match what i see in android 12 documentation states the doorbell always runs on battery though so the change in monitoring is confusing at first glance until you dig through faqs for the official answerthe blink video doorbell closes the power circuit of your existing chime system it does not provide power of any kind if the chime system loses power for any reason the doorbell only plays the blink chime sound and your existing chime will not activatei dont recall if this was covered in the faqsdocumentation i read before buying but i found out during the install that i didnt need to make any changes to the wired chime like with wyze requires you to bypass the chime making it no long function so the doorbell can be powered and other models install was so much easier than i expected aside from having to run a new wire to our back door just to tie that doorbell into the wired chime now well be able to add another doorbell to our side door to monitor the deck without any wiring and the sync module saves us the monthly cloud feemotion capture has been a bit weird i have field of view blocked off from the house side of the front sidewalk to the top of the view to ignore the street and nearby tree branches yet we still get motion alerts from the occasional car passing by on the street seems more frequent at night especially vehicles with reflective paintstickers police cars school buses etc front door view is kind of dark despite a nearby street light but i dont want to turn up the ir intensity if itll generate more alerts from traffic i also walked the dog across the entire front lawn the whole area i have set to monitor during the day and it did not trigger a motion alertin the end its great getting the alerts we do it was more than we got before and the doorbell chimes should be more reliable now in addition to getting the phone alerts when out of hearing range of the wired chime all for a reasonable price with no monthly fees building upedit 8272022 the false alarms for the front door camera due to headlights from passing traffic at night setting sun etc have been eliminated with an angled mounting bracket with the doorbell angled down those alerts have stopped and its better anyway as it covers more of the steps down from the door