Blink Outdoor with two-year battery life | Wireless HD smart security camera, motion detection, Alexa enabled | 1-Camera System with Sync Module

It's good, very good. Easy to install and setup. No cables and wires.I've put a 8gb memory stick in mine and can reject it and watchvideos on the main PC.Very concerned about the time-lapse though. Was expecting a package fromAmazon on Tuesday 27 October 2020, heard a van door go and it was withinmy delivery slots. Switched the camera on and observed the man getting out hisvan. Suddenly there was a knock on the door? I was still watching him walkto my front door time-lapse was more than 10 seconds. A notification then wasmade on my iPhone?Amazon really need to get this sorted, not good enough. In this day andage it renders the 'talk to' useless? By time, you've connected to the phoneand got the camera on (15 seconds after the event) they've gone... so what'sthe point??I've marked it down to 3 stars because of this. My rear garden camera has a timelapse of around a second which beats this hands down.If Amazon can get the time delay sorted it will be a fantastic bit of kitbut at the moment perhaps other cameras would be better?UPDATE: 8th December 2020.I obtained another camera about 2 weeks ago and placed this at the rear of the house. Having 2 camerasimproved performance greatly. A quick change in settings to activating 'early' motion and time was down to almost 6 seconds from notification to seeing who was at the door.Really pleased now, an extra camera does help! Thoroughly recommend this product and get 2 cameras if you can!

EDIT - regarding battery life ive now had this for about 8 months and have gotten a low battery warning - so batteries dont last the advertised 2 years. That being said it is in a location with high activity and i have the recording settings high so that will have contributed to the shorter battery life.Had this for about 4 months now and its great. Bought it as it was one of the few cameras that i could find that allowed you to save and view clips without a subscription.It came with a months free subscription (so i used that initially) but now have it set up with a USB stick attached to the sync module with clips saved locally - and definitely prefer this way. Took me a minute to work out how to access the local stored clips in the app - but once i did it is very simple. Only downside is viewing clips saved locally (rather than on the cloud) takes a bit longer - but still its not too long.Camera quality is really good and so is the night time mode. Good field of view on the camera. App is really simple to use. Cant comment on battery life as only had for 4 months - though I have the recordings set to max quality and duration so expecting it to be less than advertised.You do get a few false motion alerts and accessing the recordings can bit a bit hit and miss sometimes (most of the time no problems) but for the price i really can't fault it (i got 1 camera with sync module for £50). Would definitely recommend.

The media could not be loaded. I hadn't really looked at Blink cameras, because I wasn't sure about battery-powered units, but this was on a flash offer (-45%) so I thought I would give it a go.Everything needed was in the box - camera, 2 lithium AA batteries and 'receiver' with USB plug and cable, and fitting kit.Really easy to put together and, within minutes of installing the Blink app I now have a new outdoor security camera monitoring my front door and accessible through both my mobile phone and my Alexa Show.So far, so good - the daytime image is great - the night-time image is pretty poor though with the focus completely on the adjacent wall, (see video), leaving the image quality by the front door useless - I have tried using zones, but that just seems to be for movement detection.The recording seems to start 1-2 seconds after movement detection - I need to check the notification settings - apparently if you 'notify immediately' this can cause a lag - we'll see!Picture quality - when I set it up indoors, this looked really promising - I set it on highest quality and the picture quality is great - now it's outdoors, I'm not so sure - it's not as HD as my other camera (Reolink Solar Powered pan-and-tilt).There's also some weird noise like jangling metal, all the time - like there may be some electrical interference - really not sure - I can only upload one video, so decided the night-time one might be better.Needs installing way out of reach - the camera just clips onto the holder, and is really simple to disconnect - I don't know what you can do about that as ideally, I would like to have mounted the camera at head-height.Batteries - I am a little bit sceptical - will two AA lithium batteries really last (up to) 2 years? I'll have to wait and see.All in all, for the money I paid, it's not a bad bit of kit.EDIT - 09/07/2021 -1. I adjusted the angle of the camera slightly away from the wall and it has improved, but not much - the night vision of this camera is pretty poor, even with IR on full intensity.2. I changed the settings to notify after initial movement recording and it does seem to pick up a bit sooner - there is still a lag of maybe just under a second between detection and start of video.3. Zone settings - I have blocked out everything other than the specific area I want to monitor but the movement detection still keeps picking up people/cars in the 'blocked zone'4. There is an almost constant sound being recorded like somebody jangling a bag of spanners.The Blink Outdoor is a neat little outdoor camera - I won't be adding any more though. It remains to be seen how weather-resistant it is and how long (up to 2 years!?) the batteries last.