Hopefully a honest deep review that will help buyers
Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2023 | Rating: 4/5 | Best Sellers in Amazon Devices & Accessories
okay  1 year using and 1 year to learn so as to give a real review  its not some 4k ultimate video recording doorbell  but the video is clear enough and dollar for dollar it might be one of the better 1080 doorbells  it does have some issues i found work arounds for and some i couldnt  the reviews you read saying its very slow to motion alert you are not just hard to please customers  it is an issue  it is slow to alert you thru the app on your phone  why i have not a clue  the work around is if you have echo dot or echo show and you know how to set up routines  have alexa tell you when that device detects motion  i found it lightning quick  why that works faster i dont know  lol remember im doing honest review on how things worked for me  i also discovered you can have echo show or echo dot be your chime so again if you understand alexa routines  and you have alexa devices  you will never have an issue hearing when someone rings your blink doorbell  dont forget to link your blink app and the alexa app to ensure the above things work for you  okay on to issue i cant find a work around  blinks idea of battery life reminds me of auto manufacturers mpg  estimates  we all know in the real world its not going to happen  sure  if you dial down all the features  you might get half of what blink says  but then i ask you  why have it  we buy them to use them right   so i have found average battery life even using the suggested energizer ultimate lithium  is about 6 months  not 2 years  and dont care how they or their paid reviewers try to spin it  its not going to happen even if you dial all the features down  making it a waste of money  and yes im using the sync module which is supposed to help battery life  maybe it does  cant answer that but real life  no bs spinning  your not going to come close to their battery projections  my only work around for that is the batteries are easy to change and i understand and can deal with this  speaking of the blink module  i use it for local storage and i also use the pay for cloud storage  thats another non work around issue  far far to many features are locked out  if you dont pay for the blink subscription  now if you dont care about saving videos and you just want to know who is at your door regardless if you are home or away  this will alert you  it will display to you video of who and allow you to talk to them also and i must say it does a good job at it and you dont need the blink subscription and if you do have the blink module and a usb stick in it will save those for you  at short lengths  but it will do it  overall it is a good security device  and although obviously it is far from the better ones  from a pure value perspective i would highly recommend this   easy to install  no wires  pretty much can put it where you want it  again it does everything pretty well  one of the best prices out there  just understand it has shortcomings  but also understand its price  and it will certainly do the job for you  this isnt a trashing review  i  tried my hardest to be real and actually recommend it  it just doesnt function at the upper levels of some of the others  but it doesnt have the upper price tag  plus i am actually going to buy another  remember  you can put them about anywhere  i actually have one stashed at the front of my house  not by the door  it gives me a full frontal view of my home when i am away  sure it is a doorbell but it is a camera as well and at this nice price why not  weather elements have not hurt mine a bit in the 13 months i have had them  including the one not by the door and pretty open to rain  snow and cold  it has held up well  still ticking  no signs of wear  so another plus