Certified Refurbished Blink Outdoor with two-year battery life | Wireless HD smart security camera, motion detection, Alexa enabled | 2-Camera System

I bought these to add onto an existing Blink system as I had a couple of uncovered areas. They are well made and very easy to set up. I had no trouble integrating them into an existing setup - although, if you have a legacy system with no regular monthly payment plan, it will try to set up a subscription for you. You can simply ignore it and the reminders will go away after a month - although you still get an annoying banner at the top of the app.Generally they are pretty good - you can set the sensitivity , exclude certain areas from the trigger zone - on quite a fine granular level. You can set active times and activate/deactivate the system on your mobile device. Live view is quite useful and you can speak through the camera from your mobile device too.The battery life is good - obviously it depends on use but on previous models I have got 18 months plus on an occasionally triggered device. The wireless connection seems pretty decent even get a solid connection over about 40m + & the other side of a garden wall.The camera is easy to mount and quite discreet. There are a variety of third party housings and power supplies available - a power supply is quite handy on a high use area.

Was a little hesitant to purchase these as they were refurbished as new, but happy to report easy to install easy to set up and so far they have worked flawlessly, however they do advertise that you do not need to subscribe to blink these to work I'd be where the functionality without subscription is severely limited

I don't usually write reviews on products but I thought I should do this time.The Blink Outdoor camera is actually brilliant. The quality of the picture is superb and the resolution is not even set on maximum to save battery life.It has good motion detection and the subscription in my view is a tiny bit expensive £8 a month but to get my moneys worth I bought two outdoor cameras for front and back garden and the Blink Video doorbell. So the £8 a month allows me to have all of my blink devices included in the subscription otherwise each device would cost £2.50 each per month.So far I have had a mixed experience in terms of setup and usage.First day after installation. I noticed that the front camera was struggling because of typical British weather the rain was all over the lens and it was totally blocking out any motion detection and the live feed was just a smudge.So I had to purchase the little silicone house looking covers for them and I can't say how they've turned out yet as I'm waiting for it to rain again to test it which I'm sure won't take long.Secondly I also noticed that the UK is particularly cold as we know and where I live the temperatures can get pretty cold quickly being so high up. So the temperature alert on the camera does come on a few times. I had thought the little silicone housing would have provided a little relief but I guess it didn't.Please also note that these cameras from what I can tell according to Google search they are IP65 so they are water resistant but not actually waterproof and snow/ice proof. For cameras of this quality and price I would have expected them to have IP66/67 by default as they are outdoor. It should be mandatory and I was surprised to learn they aren't.(But since buying the Silicone waterproof house covers I hope this will be enough to provide them with some additional shielding)I have been struggling intermittently with WiFi connectivity from the router to the Sync module which baffled me as the router and module were only separated say roughly 3-4meters. So I bought a WiFi repeater. The sync module shows full green bars connected to my router.However during some periods of the day I'm am encountering difficulties in the front camera connecting to the module to provide me with a live feed. The time it takes to load is so long anyone could have nicked ya garden ornaments and run away long before it would have connected. But I am feeling there maybe a correlation between the lower temperatures and the WiFi signal seem to make them struggle to connect.So my take away on this is that if you have a VERY decent WiFi speed you will likely encounter very few problems compared to me. If you are still around 35Mbps broadband expect some occasional challenges. But also if you are wanting to save a few extra pounds when installing these outdoor cameras try to find a pre-existing shelter for them such as a porch or a under a gutter as opposed to being fully exposed to the elements. But also be smart in terms of your router distance to the sync module and then test the signal of your cameras before finally positioning them.But overall I am still pleased with my cameras as the weather improves I can do more diagnostics and tweak positioning if required or contact customer support for assistance.Sorry this review is long but I wanted to provide everyone with an In depth review so they can avoid mistakes and experiences like I've had.

Pretty useless piece of kit if you want to monitor nighttime activity. Daytime picture seemed fine, but, no matter how much I tinker with settings, the night image is weirdly cloudy and very blurred and lacking anything in detail at all. I mean it's terrible. My Blink doorbell has a much better night image. Also a warning was coming up about high usage which will impact battery life and I was only testing it, nothing too strenuous at all, which doesn't fill me with confidence about how long the batteries will last. Also it seemed to miss a lot of movement with delays in starting a recording. There is a newer version in the US (Blink Outdoor camera 4) that strangely is not available here in the UK; but that product appears to be a clear step up over this one. It's a shame, as I really wanted to have this outdoor camera to seemlessly work on the same app as my doorbell camera and able to save videos to the sync 2 module, but I'll be forced to go looking for an alternative camera with better performance at night which will mean another make of product and yet another app on my phone.