Blink - Video Doorbell

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I was between the ring and blink doorbell both Amazon products. I went for the blink doorbell as I have the option to pair it with the sync module and attach a USB stick to avoid paying subscriptions to save videos etc. I ended up paying for a basic full year subscription anyways for only €5

I bought the E340 wireless, to replace a blink. Notifications and battery life are terrible. It randomly rings or not. I get a notification sometimes saying "ringing" but it doesn't ring. The app in my phone is set to unrestricted. I even bought a separate chime and it barely works. The battery? Lasts three weeks for me. Eufy support are pretty useless..I'm fairly certain I'm conversing with an AI that has no clue what I'm doing or how it's products work. My Blink was better.

I have a blink. Cheap and if you get the sync module, you don't need to subscribe.

I have used Blink for 3 years and switched to Ring for 1+ year now. All that time I had a ring doorbell for 4 years (same time when I started using Blink). The main reason why I used blink was because of no subscription service. However after about 1.5 - 2yr Blink live view and anything else became **insanely** slow for me to look. Unusable practically speaking. Shovelling out 10/mo for RIng with Alarm system was the best system Ive ever had. Flawless. I would never go back to Blink ever again.

Last I check Blink is battery operated vs Ring you can get solar panel so anything battery can be self-sufficient. Or get a floodlight that's wired and you don't have to worry about it. Ring also has its alarm system (with a monthly subscription fee) that essentially can call the police for you in case of break ins. Hope that helps but I'm never going back to Blink hahaha

Blink works for me. You don't have to get the subscription and it works fine.

I’m wondering why no one has mentioned Blink doorbell w/ the SyncModule 2. It just uses an SD card, you can access the clips on your phone. Cheap, easy to use, good features, and decent camera. The one downside is the doorbell chime. You can configure it to ring on your Echo device, notify on your phone, and/or ring an indoor Blink camera that you have set up. If you don’t have an Echo or an indoor camera, it will just notify your phone.

I believe this is the same for all of these doorbells (Nest, Eufy, etc). You can hardwire them all (including the Blink) to the existing indoor chime or you will need a separate speaker. If OP is hardwiring to existing indoor chime, this wouldn’t be an issue. But for you, if your Blink is not hardwired, and you don’t intend your replacement to be either, it will also probably need a separate indoor speaker system. FYI, for the Blink, it doesn’t have to be an Echo. It can also be an indoor mini camera.

Avoid Ring and go with either Eufy or Blink. Blink does have a subscription model but if you get the sync module for it, you can use a USB card and not need to subscribe.

I can personally vouch AGAINST ring and blink both of those were absolutely garbage. I went through 2 ring cameras which both stopped working randomly. Then i switched to ring and it has been horrible- super slow wont load most of the time and the module won’t stay connected. All of this in under a year. 

I just got an XTU, no subscription required. Rechargeable as well so you’re not wasting $ on batteries. Picture is incredible day time and night. ETA: and you can use an SD card for storage I just got it though so can’t comment on longevity but for the price I’m impressed. I previously had blink and hated that you needed a subscription, night vision was awful and it became a brick after only a few years.

Blink can be used without a subscription but it still bounces videos off Blink's servers even when you're storing them locally so you'll still need internet access. Having used Blink doorbells for the last ~6 months, I think I'd look at other options before buying one.

Have a look at blink doorbells and cameras on amazon. I've set up a few of these systems and blink are excellent value for money. I've got a 7 camera arlo system (very good but expensive), I fitted a ring system for my Dad and a blink system for my mum and would pick the blink over ring. Plus with blink you can record to usb with the sync module if you don't want a subscription. Also blink is usually heavily discounted during Amazon events, prime day etc so you can pick up additional cameras cheap later on. Arlo is great and saved me from 2 break ins, but is more expensive than the other 2. Arlo has ai person detection so I've told it to ignore animals but let me know if people are on the property. I've been woken up by alexa in my bedroom informing me that there are people in the garden at 3am. Police called and they were caught a couple of streets over.

Interesting. I bought a blink one. It worked for a bit, then I'm assuming froze and now it won't reconnect or do anything. No amount of changing batteries, resetting back to factory defaults etc appears to fix it. So mileage may vary with the blink products.

We've had a blink doorbell for two years now and I still haven't had to change the battery and the chime goes off on our phones and on the blink cameras we have in our house

My blink doesn’t require a subscription, just a module with a usb storage device. The module and two wired doorbells were about $120. It still sucks, don’t buy a blink for any reason. I dislike them so much I didn’t even bother to look for a HB plugin.

+1 for Tapo. My doorbells are quick and they have good video quality 5mp 2k day and night. Do NOT buy blink. I ended up recycling mine as I couldn’t even sell them for $10 on marketplace. They were slow even with the blink module. They were even slower after the chip unsoldered itself from the inside of the module and I couldn’t even sell only see video when the bell was pressed. The delay with the sync module was about 7 seconds and over a dozen without. By the time I got the notification and could respond anyone who rang the bell was already off the property.

I know it's mainstream and frowned upon, but we are using the Amazon Blink doorbell with the sync module, so its all stored locally on a 32gb card. I have that and 3 other external blink cams and they work really well. I can check any of the cams and adjust their settings from the 1 app which is very simple to use. They all have 'night vision' and adjustable pickup zones etc. Blink does sales every few weeks, and at normal price its a bit much but at half price or 2-3rds quite good value.

Not having a separate chime is the worst part of this product. I don’t want an echo, I want a fucking chime for my doorbell. We’re getting rid of ours this spring. They are good if you don’t care about not hearing the god damn door bell.

The best defence against burglary imo is deterance. Most robbers are just opptunist with no real skills, and if a house looks slightly protected, they will normally move onto an easier option Some relatively cheap and easy fixes are ○ Solar powered motion senor lights for outside, can be cheap and super easy to put up, look at paying around £20-30 for 2. Even dirt cheap ones will get you by, I have some over 8 years old now still going strong. ○ Old school classic window alarms, the type that stick onto one side of the window, put them in a visible place. These things tend to be cheap and go off quite easily, so more of a deterent as you'll likely have then switched off most of the time. ○ Blink Security Cameras/Door bell. I have these they work perfectly now issues in over 14 months. I think they tend to be the best value option, multitude of options for cameras, though can spend big if you wish. ○ A door bar/brace, you wedge it behind a door makes its incredibly hard to force open. Like this https://amzn.eu/d/dhySvIZ ○ If you have French/patio door, look at one of these https://amzn.eu/d/d62kxk0 ○ If you have a car of any kind, look at getting a Stop Lock PRO steering wheel loc. These are a nightmare to get off for the average thief. They just won't bother ○ Basic level home security alarm, by the likes of Yale, can spend thousands on these, but sometimes, just have a dummy box outside helps just a much with being a deterent.

Blink, battery operated version, off of Amazon as I didn’t have to find someone to wire. I didn’t have to get my husband to install. I have them in a few locations in the yard. Super easy to install and easy to use and worked all winter with the cold.  Great picture and video too.

I use a blink doorbell, it wasn't very expensive and I have only replaced the batteries once in 2 years. I do limit the zones that it detects movement on to prevent too many activations, but I get video daily of my mail carrier. I use the local storage hub device and don't pay for cloud service. You might want to consider switching.

The Blink doorbell at least allows local recording without a subscription if you get their little hub thing. I got my blink doorbell and hub for under $50 on Black Friday 2023. I stuck a 128GB flash drive in it and it puts all the clips on that. Still, I think I'd rather have gotten the Eufy.

I had a eufy as my husband works nights and I wanted to be notified if anyone was in the house. I found the notification time to be so slow. If I’d have had any intruders they’d have had about a minute before I’d have known. I went back to Blink and got the extra part so I didn’t need a subscription and much prefer it.

We have a battery powered Blink and it’s actually better than expected.

Blink is decent once you figure it out

I have a blink. It can run without subscription but it’s shite. I would not recommend it.

Blink. Love it and the cameras

But if you’re dead set on WiFi I will tell you have a blink doorbell and a ring doorbell. Blink is complete garbage. Ring was at least usable.

I have the blink and sync module 2. Works great. Been using it for a year now.

I bought a blink camera for my doorbell. Just buy it on Amazon. No need to wait for prime day.. and use the existing wiring for my doorbell so I didn't have to change much.

Stay away from Amazon Blink... absolute worst quality. Eats up batteries, wi-fi hub doesn't save all videos (if any), VERY slow software lag. I can't wait to find something better.

I use the blink door bell from Amazon. Does require a subscription but I find it well worth it. Has great attachments, runs off batterys until I get it hooked up to the mains, I also use oet came which all eork off the same system snd never had sn issue with it connecting to WiFi despite it bing miles away from the router.

Blink. It's basically Ring with a local storage option.

Blink is great for battery life but last I used it (year plus ago) if took several seconds to give you a live view and the max recording time was too short.

I bought blink doorbell. know one told me that I had to by the subscription through amazon. I just happen to have it . Then when I tired to purchase the subscription it told me that my phone does not work with there plan. I went back and forth from amazon to blink . Trying to figure this out. Every one was rud and I finally gave up. Iam going to buy simply safe it american made and ran by americans.

Blink. Absolutely no problems so far, you can actually access stored footage from the app remotely via a usb attached to a sync module with no subscription.

Do not buy Blink. It lags. I have several Blink cameras including the door bell one. Saving clips locally is okay, but any online access take forever. It would not work well for door bell.

The Blink one works beauty I just change the batteries once a year and never an issue.