This checked all my boxes for home monitoring system
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2023 | Rating: 5/5 | Best Sellers in Amazon Devices & Accessories
i was initially looking at another brand because they had a wireless video doorbell that came with its own chime  my home was built in 1897 and i dont have existing doorbell wiring or chime in the house  so wireless doorbell that came with a chime was the way i wanted to go  only problem this other brand didnt offer all the options andor configurations i was hoping forthen i was introduced to blink  it had all the options i needed  granted it doesnt have its own chime butyou can use the mini or alexa as your indoor chime  perfect  had the corner mount so i could point the video doorbell camera towards the entrance to the porch  again old home on a corner with a wrap around porch where the entrance to the porch was on the corner and the door was at the end of one side  does me no good to have the camera pointing straight ahead into the front yard  you can mix and match all of the devices to get the optimum setup for your needs and they all connect seamlesslythen i started doing my research on blink  reading the reviews from customers really made me question if i should buy  too difficult to install  too difficult to set up  cant connect to alexa  battery life a fraction of what they claim  cameras always disconnecting  im glad i ignored the reviews chalking up the technology issues to people just not being tech savvy  i was rightinstallation was extremely simple  not a fan of the online instructions instead of a booklet but i managedsync module video doorbell 3 outdoor cameras and 1 mini indoor camera connected to the blink system with no issuesconnecting to alexa was equally as flawless  set up the blink skill in alexa and she immediately found all the blink devices our echo in the living room echo dot in the bedroom and the indoor mini will all serve as chimes wherever we are in the house  the echo devices will also announce any motion detection  we can arm and disarm the system by voice command with alexa  disarm does require a voice pin code which you have to set up in the alexa appsetting up and managing the devices in the blink app is fairly intuitive and straight forward  you can adjust the motion sensitivity set up privacy and no detection zones  after setting up the doorbell out of the box we would get random motion detection notifications  after checking the clips it had to be either vehicles passing in the street facing the door or a flag flapping in the wind at the end of the porch where the steps are  i shut off motion detection in the street lowered the sensitivity slightly but  left the flag area on and no more false detections  so it was definitely not the flag tripping it  camera still picks up people as they come to the top of the steps and alerts usvideo quality is pretty decent  im please so far  havent been able to test what the night video looks like or the two way voice at the doorbell  yet  once i am able to and if there are any real issues i will edit my reviewas far as battery life its too early to tell  all the documentation i have read indicates that with the sync module and turning off settings or features you dont really need will extend the battery life to the 2 years claimed  time will tellif i had a complaint so far its the fact that the time it takes from notification until a live view of the camera finally comes up in the app the person tripping the motion detection has dropped off the package and left  that timing needs reduced greatly