Overall, we like it enough - It’s decent.
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2024 | Rating: 3/5 | Best Sellers in Amazon Devices & Accessories
neutral better than nothing  yesgood for the cost  mehnot sure if i should have gone with another option or not all seemed to have a downfall somewherei looked at 4 or 5 other brands we already have a ring doorbell which we went from loving to tolerating there’s always an addon always a price increasewe did want more cameras that did not require a subscription only a few choices for this that are also wireless too cheap and too unskilled to use wiredto point out the obvious wired is likely to be much better for any brand wired has more power memory strength and options wired is more money however and less available placement optionsi was very close to go with eufy i think it was… i don’t remember but their bundle came with only 2 cameras and the hub had to be connected via ethernet vs this set’s hub uses wifi every brand seemed to have reviews about connectivity issues overtime there was another close contender but that one you could have 23 cameras max with the hub and could not get more i like the ability to add options later but i certainly don’t like the you must add this or get a premium increase later nonsense every company is throwing out these days i also think a major factor i went with blink is the battery life of 2 years vs 6 monthsproscan put them almost anywheredecent imagesvideonot bad night vision see image from very dark corner outsidelots of add on optionslots of settings options length of video sensitivity per cameraoptional subscriptionsupposed battery life 2 years nicesound is better than expectedwe have had no connectivity issues keep in mind it has only been 5 days and we have both 5g and 2whatwver connection i believe now cameras want the 2mega connection range however it did warn me once one camera didn’t arm but then it did soconsdoesn’t come with long arm mounts bought from 3rd party for 1599 for 3 and hub mount vs 899 each from blink most other options i saw came with everything you’d need for at least one cameradoesn’t come with the usb memory cardslowness some is to be expected but i should not have just gotten a notification this morning from an event at 7pm last night from one camerainconsistency got 3 cameras all work so far but only one regularly does the trial periods photo capture when all 3 are supposed tosubscription required for person detection personally think that is bogus most coders will tell you that is a simple edit from motion to figure detection ie they just want moneyno clue why it isn’t using the hub for videos right now and is using the cloud from the free triali have the sensitivity on all at 9max and 60sec videos it warns you this will decrease battery life i disagree that this should be a thing say they only last a year instead if you actually have events that trigger this…batterylife monitoring not accurate all came new supposedly but as soon as you get all setup they only say “okay” battery life i expected 100 or full or something not for it to say okay that doesn’t make me very confident they will lastarmeddisarmed take this with a grain of salt bc i don’t understand the point there is no sound alarm that i am aware of these are not 247 cameras these record if a motion is triggered and alert your phone why would i not want these armed 247 they’re supposed to record if they need to otherwise you just have pretend cameras to scare off people maybe i don’t get it i’ve left them armed we have tweens sneaking through part of our property at times rabbits digging holes and i did learn we also have a raccoon snooping about2 cameras rarely are triggered by my dog’s motion when maxed out they are triggered if i am with the dog and also by a raccoon rabbits have yet to be caught by the camera but i know they’re there as my dog has eaten 5 so far i do not like that it doesn’t have a date and time marker that should be a must in all camera systems to me it makes their photo captures they brag about pointless it clips a bunch of them together so it looks like a stream of videoimages from morning to night but you have no clue what time other than “oh it looks dark out now…” stupidi can’t figure out how to actually use this with alexa it is linked and shows the cameras connected but won’t let you view anything have to use the blink app that’s annoying weird too bc ring works with alexa just very very slowlyby the time you get notified motion is often over and not recorded i consider these minor things that don’t matter if you want every detail this is not for youother cameras ring and some off brand that i just remembered we have in a light socket and our dog camera… all these have wider lens ranges than the new blink cameras they don’t expand or go as far as i think they could probably to get you to buy more but it may make their quantify better to be fairi’ve only had these 3 cameras 5 days 25 days left in trial with person detection and cloud i have zero intention of getting a subscription i will try to remember to update review if i no longer think this is worth it so far it seems pretty okay decent like i said it is far from perfect not 100 reliable but it does give us more confidence and peace of mind hopefully a deterrent for trouble if anything it has occurred to me that if anything terrible were to happen say with a break in that thieves could find the hub annoyingly bright light always on and delete all the camera captures if you don’t use a cloud fyi hopefully you watch the app like i do and can prevent such an issue if you’re going to ignore nose notifications you might want a different brand or get the subscription ring raises our fee every year so looks like blink is the less expensive route but not trying to go there if anything we might add some cameras from another brand to get more coverage and reliability not looking for another bill every month