All-new Blink Video Doorbell + Outdoor 4 – Wireless smart security cameras, head-to-toe HD view, two-year battery life. Sync Module Core included – 1 camera system + Video Doorbell

A good set if you don’t already have a home security camera setup
An excellent set if you’re looking to have a diversified camera system for your home or business. As this one comes with two outdoor cameras and a video doorbell, it should cover most of your basic needs. The Outdoor 4 cameras are clear and easy to set up and even at night, you can adjust infrared lighting to supplement any to no lighting. The video doorbell is also clear. Keep in mind that the video doorbell uses a fisheye lens to get most of what’s directly in front and the sides of the immediate area in front, about 4 to 5 feet. Any farther and your Outdoor 4 camera(s) could be used to supplement what’s going on. Each of the cameras detect motion and and start recording upon detection of movement, vehicles, or people. The algorithms or AI make pretty good determination of this. Keep in mind, this can run on AA batteries or an external power source like a solar pane that would plug into the USB-C port on the back. However, if you’re looking for something that gives you consistent live-view or multiple-camera view, you may want to look for another option. As far as power, if you’re going to do consistent live view (and only one camera at a time), you’ll probably want your cameras plugged in for power to an outlet. These are meant to be wireless as far as power. These cameras are good if you only need to know when the cameras detect something, making you go to the app and opt to use the live view to see what’s going on. You can only view cameras from the app, you can’t log into a website to watch from your browser. The doorbell can be hard-wired for power to a regular doorbell setup, in effect replacing the traditional doorbell and having consistent power for the video camera. It’s still a good system, just be sure to study what your wants and needs are first for a video system and then determine if not consistently monitoring your video is for you, only watching clips of what’s going on when it records something.

Great sense of security
I love the blink cameras. I have used them for over 5 years now. They are low cost but very reliable and efficient way to self home security. The picture and video quality is great and allows you to switch to different qualities depending on the use. It requires very minimal tools depending on where you are placing them and the brackets you are using (normally just a screwdriver). You only have scanned the QR code on the devices and they automatically connect to the sync module. Blink definitely gives me a sense of security

Want to use their “cloud”? Great. Don’t want to? Then you can have issues.
I’ve only had my system up and running for a week. It is working fine. There is good and bad here… The Good: If you want to use the blink system with their “cloud” access and recording – The set up is easy and amazing – I had a base unit, 3 cameras, and a doorbell all set up in less than 40 min (I did use some fast clips for mounting rather than screw things in as it was near zero degrees and storming when I set everything up). The Bad: if you want to purchase the XR base and their micro sd card, but you only want to use them only and NOT in conjunction with the “cloud”, that is when things get complicated. They abso-f’n-lutely want you in their “cloud” family, if you try to deviate from that plan (aka leave the family) – you can run into hours of issues trying to reset things to do what you want to do with no help from their website or instructions. They are also sneaky and mean about starting their “free cloud trial”. I clicked NO every time they asked…so many times…and then I was in one area and couldn’t get out of that area without clicking “Ok” to whatever was stopping me from leaving – turns out that was when I got stuck into their “cloud” system. Not cool! If you go with their plan – great! If you don’t, you’ll need to pack some patience and work through stuff, but it can be done.

Easy and effective
Super easy setup and great picture quality.