Blink - Video Doorbell

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.