Blink Outdoor 4 Floodlight Mount – Wire-free, 700 lumens, two-year battery life, set up in minutes

I love it
Great, easy to install, easy to use, and works excellent, the batteries were not so much but it is because I have a lot of movement where I use it, so that is personal. I loved it.

Disappointing Camera
With recent crime and vandalism in my neighborhood, I wanted to get a garage camera to be able to quickly see any detection and movement in front of my house. This camera does not fit the bill – here’s why:- Camera Delay and Feed Issue: After getting a motion detection notification, the camera feed takes anywhere from 10-20 seconds to pull up from the app. Not to mention, the “live feed” is anywhere from 4-10 seconds delayed. And this is IF you’re lucky. Most times it won’t even pull up the feed after you click on the notation notification. This is useless as a live-feed security camera, as if there were any malicious activity being detected, by the time you got to see what’s going on, it would be too late to even intervene.- Motion Detection Playback: Motion detection recordings are incredibly inconsistent. Sometimes it will show you a playback that is less than 1 second long, other times it will just provide you with a highly pixelated screenshot that tells you nothing. Also, if you want to quickly see a recent motion recording, they won’t show up in your recording archive for several minutes, again, not allowing you to intervene if necessary in a timely manner.- Camera Quality: Very disappointed with the visual quality of the camera. The camera is not smooth at all and often times the live feed will pause for several seconds while viewing. My first-generation Ring doorbell camera from 7 years ago has a better camera and audio than this!- Installation: With the number of parts this came with, I was surprised that it came with virtually no instruction, other than a QR code that took you to a very basic overview of the camera (not even the right one, at that), that had no installation instructions. I had to watch several 3rd party videos to figure out what I was even looking at in my box and how everything went together. The design is not intuitive at all.- Sync Module Issues: On several occasions when power or internet have gone out, the sync module disconnects but does not reconnect. You have to manually intervene and install the module which is never a quick process, and typically doesn’t work for several days. Devices like this should be designed to automatically reconnect – you shouldn’t have to play the tech guy to get things back up and running anytime there’s a connection issue.- Misc.: LED “on” light is incredibly small and dull and does not turn on unless motion is detected. To me, having a bright camera LED that’s always on is a big deterrent for any prospective thieves. The setup just looks like a big floodlight and nothing else. Speaking of big, the whole set up is very bulky, due to the large batteries the lights take (which by the way, the lights should be solar powered anyway. Another design opportunity missed). The camera mount just looks like an afterthought they slapped on and the system does not look like a sleek, modern design that Amazon would put their stamp of approval on. It’s an unattractive hunk of black plastic that looks like its from 15 years ago.Overall, I’m disappointed with the camera and would not recommend it. It is not effective in the slightest as a proactive security camera and may be more suitable for someone who just wants to periodically check on an area outside their house where a “live feed” isn’t necessary, although, I’m positive there are better, cheaper options available. The only reason I’m keeping it is because the recording subscription service is the cheapest I’ve found and also, there are very few camera options that are both wireless and have a floodlight integrated… Although you’d be better off buying a higher quality camera and a separate floodlight to pair with it. For what you get, this should be half the price of what it is.Update: just had a questionable person who kept ringing my doorbell and wouldn’t leave. He eventually went away from my door but my garage (Blink) camera kept sending me notifications that he was still there. Of course, I couldn’t pull up the live feed and no recordings were available for review. The only time I actually needed them to. I had to rush home from work to make sure everything was okay because Blink once again failed to show a live feed. This camera is absolutely worthless.