Blink Whole Home Bundle – Outdoor 4 camera, Mini 2 camera (white), Video Doorbell system (black) | HD video, motion detection, Works with Alexa

the Blink system is a good value
I have 4 of the outdoor cameras, 2 of the indoor ones and the doorbell. I’ve been running the system for a few months now.They are cheaper than ring, and are probably not as nice. However they are well polished and are easy to set up. Very easy, well thought out and a powerful system.The motion detection system does work. It takes some tweaking but, once you do, it works nicely.The units seem reliable and solidly made.They are not expensive at all.Video is clear and smooth.Packaging is impressively done. Blink obviously gave it some effort!I do not have the cloud subscription, I am using local storage. That works fine too. I may do cloud, but for now I don’t see a need for my use case.Negatives -As other reviews have said, it is not fast. If you get a motion alert, by the time you get the camera to come up to a live feed, you’re pretty well guaranteed to not see anything. The recording will show what happened, but bringing up a camera feed is slow. Right on the edge of being annoying, but not.There is no desktop app. You can install an android emulator “blue stacks” or whatever, and it works well enough, but come ON, why no web portal or desktop app?Since the outdoor units are battery powered, things are geared towards power conservation. Thus, you basically can’t turn on a video feed and let it play. After seconds it will ask to quit. Play a camera too much and you’ll get a nag that a camera has been “generating a lot of video” or some such, alerting you that you’re eating into your battery. Fair enough.But the indoor non-battery cameras also will not work as a continuous feed either. Those have more features and are actually quite impressive for the size and cost.The doorbell unit appears to allow being powered from the doorbell wiring itself, if so equipped. That might be nice if it works how I think it does.So, I give the Blink system 5 stars, not because it is perfect but because for the PRICE it is perfect.They do work, and for a quick and cheap and (as far as I can tell) reliable system, I recommend it.

Great gift for mom and dad
Great gift and quick install everything in under a hr. But I am familiar with this stuff but only by owning my own.

great camera set
i love the video quality and ease of setup with alexa the cameras don’t lag at all

Defecting cameras and Linking to Amazon account
Two reason I am rating this a two star is because I used to have a set of cameras few years back that was linked to my Amazon account to another email. That account was deleted a while back. I recently purchased a new blink cameras and it was easy set up except linking it to my Amazon account. I have been back and forth with Blink support trying to link my new cameras to Amazon account and it’s going in circles. The only way to contact them is through email and the person responding sounds like automated messages.Second is that one of the cameras I received was already paired with another account. I also purchased a Micro SD card for extra storage was defective. I initiated a return, which was fairly quick. They emailed me return papers for UPS and when I got to UPS they told me that i had to pay for extra packaging and printing. It was about $12 but it’s not about the money it’s the fact that I received a defective camera and Microsoft SD card in the first place. I never have problems purchasing for Amazon but this time around it was extremely disappointing.