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Blink's wireless $50 Video Doorbell is only the latest example. It undercuts Wyze's $90 wireless doorbell and Ring's $100 model, making it perhaps the most affordable wireless video doorbell on the market. That alone is impressive, but the real question is, at such a low price, can the Blink Video Doorbell still accomplish what you'd expect from a modern video doorbell? (International prices convert to roughly 40 or AU$80 with the doorbell set to release in the UK sometime this year.)

People who don't want to invest a lot of money in a video doorbell probably also don't want to invest a lot of time in setup. Appropriately, Blink makes setup breezy: You just affix a plastic plate to your door frame with two screws, then clip the doorbell to it.

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While finding the right angle to clip on the doorbell was trickier than I expected, it was a painless experience. What's more, because the batteries are just lithium AAs, you don't have to do any lengthy charging ahead of time. It only took about 5 minutes from unboxing to up-and-running.

Once your doorbell is set up, whenever someone rings it -- or even just walks past -- Blink will send you a notification. From there you can use two-way talk to chat with the visitor or the delivery person.

In general, these notifications were prompt and accurate. The only trouble in my testing was that the latency from when it first detected motion to when I could see the live feed on my phone rarely left me time to intervene if someone was there to steal a package -- but this brief delay isn't unusual for video doorbells.

The more unique limitation to Blink's video doorbell is the fact that you can't pull up a live feed of your entryway without first receiving a motion alert or a buzzer press. That means you're out of luck if you're out of town and just want to check what the snow accumulation is like. A benefit of this feature is that it's less of a drain on the battery. Blink says the battery lasts up to two years, although I obviously wasn't able to verify that within my review period.

Blink offers two ways to get around the livestream limitation. First, the doorbell snaps a mid-res photo once every hour so you can see what your entryway looks like in a still image. Second, if you buy a separate device, the $35 Blink Sync Module 2, you can view the live feed and get some other perks including local storage.

The Blink Video Doorbell has 1080p resolution, night vision and a wide-angle field of view. Horizontally, you get a 135-degree viewing angle, but vertically it's only 80 degrees. That's not too bad, especially for a device in its price range, but a 1:1 aspect ratio that gives good head-to-toe coverage is increasingly common, even in more affordable doorbells -- so having such a narrow vertical viewing angle feels like a missed opportunity here.

Another issue I had with Blink was its lack of dynamic range. When I installed the doorbell on one side of the house without much shade, I got clear images. When I installed it on the front porch, which had about fifteen feet of shaded space immediately in front of the camera before the fully sunned area beyond the steps, I ran into a problem. The foreground became too dark, and the background was totally blown out. That meant that visitors approaching the door often appeared as little more than silhouettes, and only became identifiable when they were right up next to the doorbell.

All that said, if you install the doorbell in a fully sunny or fully shaded area, Blink's resolution is impressive. Even at a distance of 30 feet or so, I could decipher the top row or two of letters on a standard vision chart, which isn't the case even for some video doorbells with better technical specs.

To customize the doorbell, you can toggle to the Settings icon and choose from a wide variety of customizations and features, including custom motion zones, camera sensitivity, motion detection, clip length, night vision sensitivity and doorbell ringer volume along with several other options.

If you do get the Blink Video Doorbell, you'll almost certainly want to figure out a storage solution. You can pay $3 a month to get a 60-day rolling video clip history, or you can use the Sync Module 2 ($35) to get local storage. Both options detract from the wallet-friendly first impression of the Blink doorbell, but neither will put you over $100 total for well over a year.

While most buyers will probably get more value out of a slightly more expensive, but also smarter, wireless alternative like the Wyze Video Doorbell Pro, Blink is onto something with this super cheap video doorbell. I'm interested to see where they go next.

I did the method above with a virtual switch and an Alexa routine for when my blink doorbell was pressed, to get a notification via telegram (via node red) and also to change the colour of the smart bulbs in the house (again via node red.)

Interestingly, the delay between the notification from the blink app and the notification from telegram via node red was only 1 second.

This makes this workaround a viable alternative and (via node red) means theres way more customisation / options also.

Does the integration to Alexa ( accessing the HA switch) require you have a cloud HA account? Or is it possible to do the integration the other way around, that is HA can access Alexa devices like the doorbell and their events.

I had to do my own troubleshooting by forcing the camera to activate and then i was able to tap on the notification and it showed that it was indeed my blink cam, not someone elses ring video doorbell (there is a neighbor two houses down that has one).

Confirmed -- my blink camera is detected as a Ring Video Doorbell and ONLY says that inthe notification for joining the network. In the clients list it says "Blink-DHCP", which is correct but the deceptive notification had me thinking it was a neighbor's device.

Has anyone had any luck getting blink or skybell doorbell cameras to work with sharptools? I just want the video to show up on the tablet once motion is detected then return to fully kiosk once it stops. Or should I just go ahead and switch cameras?

If we exclude the Ring pre-roll from the rankings then the Google Nest doorbell did the best, consistently capturing almost the entire motion event. After that was the Blink doorbell, then the 360doorbell and then the Eufy Dual. 5 th place is when the Ring high resolution stream turned on, and coming in last every time during the day was the Eufy 2K Doorbell.

During the night tests using porch light illumination the results were similar with the Ring Pre-Roll technically finishing first slightly ahead of the Google Nest doorbell and Blink Doorbell. After that the

360 doorbell and Eufy dual performed similarly and the Ring high resolution footage started recording at about the same time as the Eufy 2K doorbell, which was pretty far into the motion event.

Infrared tests were performed with no porch lights and only a single doorbell at once. In these tests the Google Nest and Blink Doorbells were still the first to start recording, but the 2K doorbell did better in these conditions which is consistent with the results from my last video. During infrared testing the 360 doorbell and Eufy dual performed the worst and were the last to turn on.

The google nest doorbell also has a pretty impressive vertical field of view due to the fact that it records in portrait orientation instead of landscape, but as you can imagine that comes with a loss of horizontal field of view, where the nest ranked in last place.

In my opinion, vertical field of view is more important for a video doorbell because it lets you keep a better eye on your packages, and a low horizontal field of view can be more easily compensated for using an angle bracket mount.

Anyways, in my testing the shortest battery life was consistently the nest doorbell which lasted between 33 and 35 days between recharges, then the Ring Doorbell made it between 50 and 58 days, the Eufy 2K was between 60 and 71 days, and the 360 lasted a very respectable 83 days before needing a recharge. If you hate charging batteries the Blink doorbell is the one for you because not only does it use disposable lithium AA batteries instead of rechargeable ones, but it also lasted 131 days before needing a battery replacement on my front door which is a relatively high traffic area. The Ring doorbell also gets a nod here because it uses a removable battery pack, so you can always just have an extra charge pack laying around to switch out when you need to.

As I said, I only have 28 days of battery usage data for the Eufy Dual, but I recharged all the doorbells when I installed the Eufy Dual and the battery drain trend looks similar to the Eufy 2K, so I would expect around 2-3 months of battery life from the Eufy Dual.

As for notification speed, the Blink and 360 doorbells were consistently the first to notify me on my phone, due to the fact that they are text only notifications while the Ring, Eufy Dual, and 2K include a thumbnail and high resolution image while the Google Nest doorbell includes a short video of the event.

The Ring Video Doorbell 4 finished in second place while having almost double the battery life, and half the monthly fee. The pre-roll feature worked well and is a welcome addition that anyone who has ever been frustrated with a battery doorbell can appreciate. Unfortunately, adjusting the price to include 2 years of subscription fees makes it the second most expensive option in this test.

The only thing I'm noticing is if I disarm or arm from the blink app, the status doesn't seem to refresh to hubitat for some time.

My refresh rate is set to manual. Is changing that to 1 hour reasonable? I don't want to go to low, and throw up red flags at Amazon about us using this API.

I created a new rule today that would temporarily disable/re-enable motion detection on a specific camera but noticed the functionality doesn't work on the blink doorbell cam. I have this already working on my other 2 camera's in the rear yard and it works every time (and still does now, just tested) so it must be a slightly different command or something for the doorbell models. Any ideas or suggestions to edit? e24fc04721