Blink Outdoor 4 – Wireless smart security camera, two-year battery life, 1080p HD day and infrared night live view, two-way talk. Sync Module Core included – 3 camera system

Camera performs very well
So far I’ve been really impressed with the Blink Outdoor 4. The video quality is sharp both day and night, and the motion detection is responsive without being overly sensitive. Setup took just a few minutes, and the wireless design makes it easy to place exactly where you need it without messing with cables.Battery life has been solid so far, and the app makes it simple to check in, adjust settings, or review clips. For the price, it offers excellent peace of mind and just works the way a security camera should.Highly recommend for anyone wanting a dependable, hassle-free outdoor camera.

Amazing wireless cameras and monthly plan.
I have been wanting a security camera forever. But have to way to hardwire the system in. So i was looking for a alternative to solve my solution. I bought the ring camera first but it was to big and only had a small field of view.I bought this set for $49.00 on prime day. I haven’t regretted it. The cameras are fantastic! Motion detection is awesome, it works great. Letting you know when motion is detected.. and the detection is very good at picking up anything in the field of view, which is a a wide field of view. You do have to pay a sub after the 30 day free trial for cloud storage, All your clips of motion or detection that you get alerted to are in the cloud. And this is a must! So with that in mind. You will be paying $3.99 a month for one camera and $11.99 for unlimited cameras.One other thing. Since it is wireless you have a slight delay from the live camera. This doesn’t affect the recording as it is captured live and you can play it back. It really isn’t a big deal. I love them ! And one of the best things about this thing is it works with alexa. The dots or the show. I have both and when motion is detected Alexa tells you. It is a very good and quick response to the motion. If you have a Show you can ask Alexa to show you one of your cameras to show you the feed and Alexa will open up your camera on your show as a live feed. This is where the slight delay is. It is enough to notice slightly but not a deal breaker buy any means, because of Alexa and the cloud you have instant notification.

Changed my mind and returned the Blink Outdoor 4
I have 3 Blink systems at 3 houses utilizing 10 cameras. Two houses are just Mini 2 camera systems (doesn’t need a sync module) and one house utilizes a sync module.From my experience, it was very easy to install. The iPhone app is well thought out and fairly intuitive. The video quality is amazing compared to other systems I have seen. The range of the Outdoor 4 is amazing. It detects approaching vehicles over 200ft away – people over 100ft away.The Blink system seems to be well thought out. I wish other companies did as well at making their products and apps work as well as Blink’s.HOWEVER, there is one major problem. Not a deal killer for me by any means, but a PIA when it happens. And you should be aware of this before you buy.If you have a very quick power “blip” (1/2 second or so blink), it can crash the entire system. And it doesn’t usually recover without intervention. If you have a Sync module, the problem can be severe from a time perspective.For the Mini camera system without a Sync module, the fix usually involves unplugging the camera for about 5 seconds and then plugging it back in. It will usually restore and function just fine. While inconvenient, it doesn’t eat up too much time.But if a Sync module is in your setup, the fix is a lot more work. It won’t recover by just unplugging. It acts as though the whole system got its brain scrambled.The fix for a setup with a Sync module is to delete that entire system within the app and reinstall everything, starting with the Sync module. Fortunately Blink does make installing their components fairly pain free. But you will have to make adjustments to all your settings for all the components. That can eat up a bit of time.For my system with 4 cameras and a Sync module (5 components), the whole process takes about an hour to get it back up and running, including changing all the settings to my preferences. Fairly straight forward, just time consuming.Despite what technical support will tell you, that is the only way I have ever gotten a system with a Sync module back up and working after a power blip. I have used 2 systems with a Sync module and both required this intervention after a power blip.A way to avoid this kind of problem is to have the cameras and Sync module plugged into a UPS. Two of my systems utilize a UPS to power the system. They seldom have issues.The one system I cannot utilize a UPS needs regular attention from power blips and/or spikes, which are rather frequent. Previously that system only had Mini 2 cameras without a Sync module. When a problem occurred, didn’t take very long to fix.But when I added the Sync module to that setup to be able to use an Outdoor 4 camera, the fix became much more of a problem.I did move the Sync module to a UPS and that has helped.To eliminate the need for a Sync module to record events when using only Mini cameras, I switched to using Blink’s online recording service. It is well worth the cost with the number of time consuming problems that eliminated and the ease with which it records and plays back events. I have all three houses recording online. Works really well.But with the Outdoor 4, you have to have a Sync module (which came with the camera) even with online recording.In my opinion, the Sync module is the weak link in the chain for what is otherwise a tremendous value for what the Outdoor 4 offers.Would I recommend Blink? Absolutely!Just probably not for a remote house that would be difficult to get to in the event of a power blip. You’d be off-line until you could intervene.I have talked with folks with competing systems and their problems are much worse. And they usually paid much more than I did for my Blink systems.Blink could make their product more bullet-proof if they could just get the system components where they could gracefully handle a power blip. It would be better to have the system go completely off-line when there’s a power blip and reboot in 5 or 10 seconds than to have the entire system get locked up and off-line until there’s manual intervention.I just think it only fair that you know what you’re getting in to. For the price, the quality of the video and how well it detects intrusion, I can accept a bit of aggravation. All my properties are local and easy to get to. For me, Blink is a good value.UPDATE:I finally had enough. The Outdoor 4 was too problematic.In a nutshell, the camera worked fine until Blink pushed an update out to the sync module. Twice.The last one was pushed out on 10/30 at 7:08pm. At 7:10pm, the entire property setup went down. No amount of trying to reboot the system worked. I thought everything was “bricked”. And the sync module was plugged into a ups and was 4 ft. from the router.All the other devices connected to wifi had any issue. So it wasn’t my router, despite where Blink’s technical support wanted to start with diagnosing the problem. They wanted me to disconnect everything connected to the router to see it that’s where the problem lay! My telling them the problem was with their pushed update fell on deaf ears.My other two systems that don’t use a sync module kept working just fine and never had any issues.So my recommendation now is to consider the Blink Mini cameras by themselves. They don’t require a sync module and in my experience they work very well.Don’t use anything with a sync module.