Simple install and works with my indoor chimes
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2022 | Rating: 5/5 | Best Sellers in Amazon Devices & Accessories
i had an old style push button door bell when i moved into my circa 1999 home six years ago i quickly replaced it with a skybell which worked fine until about a year ago it stopped consistently advising me of visitors and the microphone  speaker never really worked correctly so i wanted to replace it with something a bit more uptodate my choice of brands would be something that worked with my existing smart home components and existing apps or something that wasnt going to clobber me with monthly subscription costsi am a legacy customer of blink meaning that i dont have to pay a monthly fee for cloud storage and i have several smart plugs and light switches on tplinks excellent app so i pretty much decided that i would go with one of these two brands tplink wanted a subscription fee so when i saw blinks doorbell camera at a good price i jumped it came the same day so i installed it the next daywould it fit the current placement and cover the crude hole carved on my porch for the wireswould it be an easy setup and would the voltage in my 22 year old home be sufficientwould it feel secure when mounted yes to all these questionsthe existing sky bell doorbell cam is pretty small and didnt protrude from the wall very much the blink is longer and fatter so the mount while secure is a bit less solid than i would like  it seems to rock a bit when pressed hard but the wiring was simple installation required that i drill one additional hole in my stucco but it took all of 15 minutes to complete the installation job well 15 minutes doesnt include the time i spent undoing the mounting bracket because i put it on backwards  and the time i spent unmounting the whole doorcam to remove the sticky transparent plastic wrap that blink puts on the cam to protect it from damage while shipping and handling funny  no where in the instructions did i see anything about this wrap and its almost invisible  until  you mount itone pro tip  there is a funny little tool that comes in the bottom of the package that you use to open the doorbell up from the bottom when it is time to replace batteries a dont throw it out as it is perfectly sized to do that job b it comes in mighty handy to also force the doorbell on to the mount as well i had trouble getting the body of the doorbell onto the mount and snapping into place until i used the tool i put my tool on top of the chime box inside the house where i will completely forget it when i need itin operation the blink door cam  works well in detecting approaching visitors and i love how it works with my existing chimes one thing that needs work is that the app allows me to exclude areas of the camera view from motion detection this app feature seems to work with my other blink cameras but not with my door cam i block out motion detection right next to my door but it detects motion there anyway minor but it should work better in this regardim very glad i purchased this tool for monitoring my front door it was a great price and was easy to install anyone could do this