Blink Home Monitor Reviews

First, I see a ton of not so great reviews. I knew exactly what I was getting when we purchased multiple cameras for our home indoor/outdoor and the doorbell. The price point for this system and what it has to offer is amazing for what you get. It’s not a top notch system by any means, but it doesn’t the job and the video quality is great in my opinion. If you want something seamless without any learning curve and high dollar user friendly, then you should look into more expensive systems that give you that.
We utilize the indoor blink mini for a toddler room, a indoor blink camera for a nursery camera, 3 outdoor cameras, and the blink doorbell. We also have the plus yearly subscription. The system automatically arms every night and turns off in the morning with a schedule I set. And I can easily arm the system while we are away from our home. The talk feature through he app is great, way better than I expected honestly. Yes you have to replace batteries in battery operated cameras, batteries are not in short supply at my home therefore this does not bother us. The image quality on BlinkHomeMonitor and the overall live stream is perfect for what we need. I also have great things to say about the motion detection notifications that come to my phone and my husbands phone.

I bought 4 outdoor cameras because they were wireless and easy to setup and install. I didn’t want to go through the headache of hiring a professional to hardwire everything. So from that perspective, great idea. Problem is I find this system full of issues. Overall, it’s not dependable. Capturing thumbnails sometimes works, but most often doesn’t. The latency of live view is terrible, probably 10-15 seconds, and that’s if it works. My cameras are within 20feet of my router, and my sync module is literally next to the router so the latency can’t be because of my network which is a 300MB download. Sometimes the motion sensor will trigger but the camera won’t turn on in time And completely miss the action. Live stream audio cuts out frequently. Etc etc etc. When it works, it’s great. But there’s constant issues. I find that it doesn’t work more often than it works. Even night mode is patchy, image quality is great on one camera, but terrible of the other two. I also think BlinkHomeMonitor is behind others like SimpliSafe. I’ll keep playing around with it, but it doesn’t always work and that’s annoying. Oh, and this is pretty annoying, but the whole system is sort of useless unless you sign up for their cloud service which will cost you $100 / year if you have more than one device. Whereas SimpliSafe still allows you to review and store video clips without their cloud service.

I’ve had the blink system for about a year. I’ve been happy with the video quality, and the ease of use. BlinkHomeMonitor is easy to quickly use, and the cameras have survived outside in the elements for a year. Claims of a 2 year battery life seem exaggerated at best, however. The o YL way you’re getting 2 years of battery life is if you have your cameras basically disarmed for a majority of the hours in the day, which kind of defeats the purpose of a security camera system. But I bought it expecting that, and I am not disappointed. Batteries last about 6 months, give or take. Would I like 2 years between battery changes? Of course, but six months is still impressive.

As for BlinkHomeMonitor ; it’s good! My one request would be that they move the ability to schedule arm and disarm times for each individual camera, rather than the system as a whole. I have cameras in front of my house, and one in my backyard. When my kids are playing out back they’re constantly triggering the backyard camera, which drives the battery life into the ground. I’d like to be able to disarm that one at a scheduled time, while leaving the front cameras armed. I know I could do it manually, but that sort of defeats the purpose.
I’d be willing to give BlinkHomeMonitor 5 stars if that feature was added.

I have my four cameras. I have two in the front of the house and two in the rear. They are great! Just use Common sense in your expectations. For the price they can’t be beat. I read the reviews and the negative reviews either reflect a lack of understanding or higher expectations. The two cameras in the front pick up anyone approaching the front door. The second camera follows anyone walking up the side walk to the front door. The one camera in the rear shows a large area in the yard. The 4th camera I use to monitor varmints who eat my plants. I can move these cameras pretty much anywhere I wish within 100 feet of the house. When there is too much activity from the wind blowing a bush within camera range, I can turn it off. The night vision is great. It is not in color. I watch deer, raccoons, groundhogs very clearly. They are so sensitive that it will pick up movement when something or someone it at the outer edge of the camera range. I certainly expect to replace my lithium batteries before the two year expectation but that is a small price to pay for all the features the cameras provide. Many issues can be resolved by owning a good modem/router. Now, I plan to purchase a mini for inside my home.

It’s actually better than I thought it would be for the price... a couple things I find silly....

Unless I’m missing it and I may be so hopefully if I am someone can correct me.. with such an important app with such an important notification that’s so different from your phones other notifications there should be a built in function where BlinkHomeMonitor makes a different noise than other apps since iPhone doesn’t seem to do that on its own (I know, not blinks problem, but many people will be using iOS to Navigate) I find myself ignoring the notifications thinking they are social things. Whoops.

Also wish more than one person can view live at once. Especially if paying for premium planning. I don’t understand why pay all the money for literally absolutely no reason whatsoever. I keep trying to justify the reason for the subscription and it makes really no sense other than they kind of bully you into it making more sense if you have more than one camera which almost everyone who buys one does.

Got them in July of this year. Had been working great. In the last month only work when we are home. Defeats the purpose. Could be something we done. Have checked everything on them. We have eight of them. Live on an acre. Yesterday we could see a shadow of a man with beard at side of the house. This is while we were home. Never seen were he came from or were he went. Found out later his dog had got loose. He was looking for him. Then another day. Just happened to look out front door. Their was a car sitting in front of house with someone in it. Never seen it pul up or leave. Was there for a good 30 minutes. Now not working when we leave house. Going to call them tomorrow. See if they can help me with the issues. Also one camera that never works long. Have changed batteries twice already. Moved it to different places. This time nothing works to get it connected back. Love the clear day time pictures on it. Have the doorbell. Have not connected it yet. Was going to get the new security lights you put cameras in. So night vision will be better. Like watching the wildlife that comes through the back yard down by the woods. It’s amazing what is running around in your yard at night.

Purchased system while awaiting back surgery. Can quickly look outside and see what’s going on. Has limited written instructions but the videos and pictures paint a clear picture. It takes no time at all to set this up with BlinkHomeMonitor . Battery life has been great. Keep in mind that when you increase the camera settings, (image quality, duration of recording, etc) of course the batteries are not going to last two years. Come on folks, don’t give negative feedback because of that! Plus BlinkHomeMonitor monitors battery life, and wireless signal strengths. It will also tell you when a camera has high use and alerts you if the battery is low.

I will say, the night vision is amazing! I am really impressed of how bright the image is. The camera sensitivity was set to 6 and it was picking up birds flying by. Adjusted it to 5 and it doesn’t, catch them anymore. The mount that came with it are simple. You can tilt up/down and swivel it left and right.

The phone notifications of movement is very timely and the camera settings in BlinkHomeMonitor are great. Setting up the cameras are easy and is not rocket science. I have two cameras now and plan to install more in the future.

Let me start off by saying that I like the system and it works. It has some issues however and here’s why it’s not 5 stars:
1) intermittent sensitivity. The camera on the front of my house will often capture a car driving down the street, but not always the mailman or UPS driver walking up to my door (which is closer to the camera than the street). I don’t understand this, and more importantly it’s not serving it’s purpose if it doesn’t capture people walking up to my house.
2) Notifications are almost non existent. Sometimes I’ll get a notification on my lock screen, sometimes I won’t. There is never a notification on BlinkHomeMonitor icon, not until I open BlinkHomeMonitor and then exit, at which point the number of notifications shows up on the icon. This is annoying, as I’d like that reminder so I know to review my alerts.
The biggest selling point of this system for me is the fact that no subscription is required. However, I don’t know if that trade off is worth it if it isn’t going to capture everything it should, or notify me when there is activity.

First , I complained that the latest force update required a iOS version that can not be implemented, rendering cameras virtually obsolete, because my iPad is old and can’t be upgraded - so the customer service/ developer response was :
“appreciate your feed back...recent app updates provide security...my team..will like to discuss Blink system requirements in further detail...” THIS MUST BE an AI response, right?! or someone who has a very dark sense of humor and uncaring attitude !
I understand that the system - NOW -requires an update and iOS that is compatible BUT THAT was not the case when I bought the system, and what you have done is worse than any security flaw exploit would have done -now the cameras are worthless. since, I can not use them with out buying a new iPad that cost 10 the price of cameras. Do you get that?! Is it to difficult to understand the economics of the problem. Why do you respond with inappropriate comments that assume customers “are stupid or ignorant about technology?” Or are you saying that your engineerings are going to violate iOS copyright and hack and old IPad to make it compatible.. (sarcasm).. Yeah, I do not think so!!

The fact that you can’t select a certain clips you want to delete and then delete at one time makes it almost unusable. Wind makes tons of videos and my husband was working in the yard which produced tons of clips that I need to delete. Mind you I should have turned it off while he was outside working, but I didn’t so now I have to delete individually hundreds of clips by swiping and then hitting the delete button. For each clip!!! It would also be great to have a timer of when you disarm for a reason like yard work or something that it alerts you to turn them back on so you don’t forget. I don’t Know why the wind turned them on as there was no movement in front to prompt it just the sound of wind. Please make the upgrade immediately to select the clips in a group and THEN hit the delete button. I don’t have 20 min or more to individually delete the clips nor do I want ti spend my time doing this. Overall I like the use of BlinkHomeMonitor and blink their are just a few MUST HAVE things that need to be updated and then some nice to haves

I purchased this mini device to watch over my family but it didn’t work at all it wouldn’t connect to my WiFi i talked to a person they sent me out a new device which i knew wasn’t going to be the problem solver i connect the new device an still no connection to my internet i have high speed 350mbp speed connection there is no. Reason for this small device to not find or connect to my WiFi ready for the best part... it only connects to personal hotspot i cannot have this run on a personal hotspot all day an night long this is absolutely ridiculous i can’t explain how disappointed i am in blink an the company i relyed on it to protect my family from people harming us an catching every thing i need on footage wind up is i cannot even get it to get a Live Photo notbing the team can do at this point to change my mind no replacement no help u just lost a good review an a. Customer this wasn’t fair that it lost me 1 week of my life that i could of had invested into another camera because they made me wait in The mail for the also broken mini camera

UPDATE (March 25, 2021): I emailed Blink customer service as the Developer’s Response requested. Blink replied back to that email with (exact quote, word for word): “In case you can't update your iOS to a newer version (some Apple devices are limited by the manufacturer), I am afraid that your only option is to purchase newer device, which can carry ios 12.5 or higher.” So that is their only solution, for me to buy a new iPhone. I foresee a class action lawsuit against Blink on the horizon. So my advice is DO NOT BUY BLINK CAMERAS. Blink does not support their existing customers or stand behind their products. I’ve owned this camera for only 5 months, now it’s a brick unless I shell out $600 for a new iPhone. HORRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE!

ORIGINAL POST: Worked fine till they updated BlinkHomeMonitor in early March 2021. To view the camera I now must update to a newer version of BlinkHomeMonitor that my phone cannot download because of its older IOS software. Why don’t you allow older iphones the abilty to continue to use the older version of BlinkHomeMonitor . It worked before, now it doesn’t. Now the camera is useless. I was planning on adding additional cameras, but not now.

PLEASE FIX ASAP.

Yikes! The recent update puts the delete button right where the share/save button used to be. Anyone who has been regularly saving videos is set up to accidentally delete instead of save. Also, the share button is now positioned right next to the delete button, and so is very easy to accidentally tap, especially on a iPhone vs iPad. Do the software designers actually use BlinkHomeMonitor ?

[Edited: the April 2021 update speeds up the save to file function; it only takes a few seconds to save each video to file now. Thanks!!! —> It *WAS* a slow and annoying process, having to save one video at a time - taking about 1/2 minute each save.]

By moving the share/delete buttons the save process is slowed down by (1) needing to break the habit of quickly tapping where the share button used to be, and (2) having to be very careful to make sure you don’t tap the delete button by accident since they’re so close together. Yes, there is a pop-up “do you want to delete” verification when you tape delete, but it’s easy to accidentally tap “yes”.

One glaring lack in functionality is the ability to add a camera/date/time stamp to saved video clips. The data is all there, and is used as the filename when saved as a file.

1. Please move the share and delete buttons back to their previous locations. ASAP.

2. Please FINALLY add a feature to save multiple clips at once.

3. Please add an optional camera/date/time stamp to saved videos.

Background need: I have a need to watch my elderly, handicapped FIL who likes to try to stand up without required assistance. I have been using old iPads’ FaceTime to watch and communicate with him (while I’m working in another part of the house, or outside doing yard work). I need to keep a constant eye and/or ear on him so to interrupt any potential fall situation he tries to put himself into.

Ownership : I just set up my account, app, and camera today. Camera = indoor Mini

First response in meeting my need: disappointed
- Live sound & stream last less than a couple of minutes, then there is a short lived prompt to continue. If you miss it, then you have to restart the stream. I need it to be a continuous feed, until I manually end it. The Mini is corded for its power, so power saving is not of a concern.

Features: The motion sensor works well
Notifications come through quickly
- for my need, my FIL could be on the ground by the time I get the alert and get the stream moving again, so while they are nice, the process of getting from alert to live stream is too slow.
Audio - 2 way is nice & appears to be clear enough for me to be heard coming from the camera.

Important to note: the video and sound have about a 2 second delay.

Likely, if you are reading this in BlinkHomeMonitor Store then the purchase is already made.

To BlinkHomeMonitor developers: please consider including a continuous live stream option, especially for corded powered cameras.

I spent a lot of time researching different camera systems before finally purchasing a 5 set of these cameras. They have met my expectations from what I had read were the pros and cons of this camera system. My biggest gripe with BlinkHomeMonitor currently is that there isn’t a way to refresh the camera views all simultaneously. When I open BlinkHomeMonitor to check on everything, (my 5 cameras,) I should be able to see a live view of all cameras instead of clicking on each camera to refresh the feed. There is even a pull down “refresh” feature when you are on the camera view page but I haven’t actually seen that do anything. This is how I think the camera refresh function should work but it does not. All in all not a huge deal, but something I think of every time I use BlinkHomeMonitor . When I’m at work or on the go and want to quickly check on things at home, it makes the process longer than it needs to be.

I gave the Blink Camera System 5 stars! I have read most of the reviews and they’re mostly negative comments regarding battery life and pic quality. For the price, you can’t lose! I have 5 cameras and 2 sync modules, each sync module has its own set of cameras. I never lose a signal and it’s true that the batteries may not last 2 year but what battery do you have that has lasted that long? Common sense would tell you, the more you use the item in which the battery is placed in the harder the battery is going to work. You can change the frequency in the setting within BlinkHomeMonitor . Also, my notifications are perfect. I was in Georgia over the weekend and could view, arm and talk to my family through the camera and they hear me just fine.

For those who have not figured out all of the cameras capabilities, just take the time to get to know your app. To me it’s great...

I read some reports about battery life. I have had a total of close to 20 Blink cameras located at two properties for at least 4 years. Some of the cameras are armed 24/7, others are on from dusk to dawn. In the four years I had to change batteries in maybe six cameras when they alerted me to a low battery condition. I recently changed all the batteries just because it has been four years.
Just so you understand, these cameras go off all the time, with people during the day and animals at night.

Great system. Great price. No monthly fee.

Only shortcoming is that they could easily provide additional control over individual
cameras.

For example, I want to know anytime a vehicle enters our circular driveway during the day or approaches the front door as well as when someone approaches a locked garage door in the middle of the night. But the alert sound should be able to be set differently as one event is usually benign, while the other could very well be ominous.

Also, you can arm and disarm the entire system anytime you like, but it would be better to arm/disarm cameras individually. For example, maybe you want to arm a basement stairwell door 24/7 because it is not normally used, but only arm your outside pool camera after dark when friends or service people are not usually walking about. .

I fell like there is very little progress on app features. Overall this system works for me but it's missing one critical feature: Disarm for x minutes... Please implement a quick "Disarm for X minutes" for individual cameras. In residential situations, there are *many* times where there is known activity in a certain area for an amount of time, like many others have mentioned: mowing lawns, sitting on porch, working in driveway, etc. etc. You either end up with 50 videos, run down your battery, or you remember to disarm the camera first but then forget to turn it back on two days later. It's just really inconvenient. A simple "Disarm for.." list with a set of times, say 5,10,15,30,60,120 minutes would be the perfect feature.. thank you. Adding the temporary disarm to the iOS icon context menu would be even more convenient.

Also: please stop darkening the video when playback is paused. It's impossible to pause and view something important because the video is immediately is darkened. Doesn't make any sense.

I’ve had this unit about 4 months. It was easy to install and the motion detector works well. We have located in our carport which gets very hot during the day (we are in Florida) so the temperature notification goes off nearly every day but it doesn’t seem to affect the quality of the video. We also have it hooked up to a power source so I don’t worry about the battery. We ended up getting a better camera mount for it. The one that comes with it leaves it open to theft. I like the free storage and it has never filled up because I usually delete the videos daily. I rated it a 3 star because we have NEVER been able to get audio out. We can hear the person in the carport but when we are not home we would like the person to be able to hear us. I have spent HOURS and HOURS on the Blink website and googling other sites for solutions to no avail. I would like to get another camera for a different location but I’m hesitant because of that particular reason.

I haven’t had any connection issues and the system reconnects quickly upon resetting the internet. App is robust and easy to use and also lets you store videos to the phone quickly. Setup is also simple with BlinkHomeMonitor . The wireless range of the cameras is quite impressive as well.

I wish the camera software could be updated so that motion detection picks up less false positives and has a higher detection range. For example, if a car is moving at a distance I believe this should be easily picked up; or a person walking at a distance on a yard. I have a hard time getting full coverage in certain areas where my cameras are located because of this. This happens with a high sensitivity set as well.

Also please add a way to add notifications for when there is a software/firmware update.

I tested the indoor Blink Mini and was able to run across the room where the camera is located without the camera detecting motion, please correct this. I was wearing black and the walls are all white, so I assumed this would be captured but wasn’t. Moving at a slower pace works as expected.

Overall, I think the motion detection algorithm needs a little bit of work.

Battery life isn’t too bad considering all the work that is being done by the little camera like constantly recording motion, sound, and talking to the sync module over a wireless connection.

This last update kinda screwed up playback. The player controls (Previous Pause Next) and the slider used to be below the video being played back. The slider was easy to get to and using the playback controls didn’t interfere with playback. Update put the controls in the middle of the video. When you tap to access the controls it’s darkens the video being played back. I like to use the slider and search through the video for anything relevant vs watching the whole clip at real speed. But the slider thing is super hard to slide now...it’s small until you tap on it then you can kinda grab it. What happens EVERY bloody time I try to grab the slider - I end up sliding the whole screen to the right because the phone thinks I’m using the back gesture. So searching through the video is a pain now. Please go back to the previous controls that are easy to use and doesn’t darken the video. I really don’t get who at Blink thought it was a good idea or somehow helpful to darken the video playback when trying to search through the video that is now darker. So yea, that’s why I only gave BlinkHomeMonitor/system 2 stars. I’ll update this if the next update corrects these issues.

I’ve had a few different camera systems over the years, my last was Nest IQ. I moved to this XT2 system because of the price point, I got a hub and 3 cameras covering the whole exterior of my house for less than the price of 1 Nest. Also not paying a monthly fee is huge.

They just need to catch up a little still. The cameras have issues pretty much every day or two. One of them will say “live view failed” and just wont work at all for a few hours. Eventually it comes back. That’s even with pulling the batteries to restart it and making sure the connection is good.

Also there’s a few usability things that I got used to that I wish this system had. It reeeaaallly needs to ability to change notification settings for each camera. I don’t need a notification every time movement in the yard happens, but I do still want it to record the video. On the other hand, I do want a notification every time someone comes to my front door. Need those options.

Also it needs to alert to motion immediately, but doesn’t. It records the ENTIRE CLIP and then notifies you. And you can’t see the camera until the clip is done recording either. It’s crazy. So someone could come to my door, and if I have it set to record a 30 second clip, I won’t get notified until the full 30 seconds is done recording.

Again, not a bad start, but needs work.

So I purchased the three camera system about 3 months ago… The set up was very easy but I had difficulty getting the motion to actually record something. After trial and error, two of the cameras were fine… The camera in the front of the house was always a problem. Either it went off every two seconds and nothing was there or somebody could come right up to the door and it recorded nothing! When I initially bought it, the customer service people were very friendly. This time, however, I have two cameras that are not working and nobody has responded to my email as yet. I can’t tell you how disappointing this is because this is a safety issue for me as I am a disabled person living alone. So last night I heard noises out front (Saturday night)… And when I tried to check the live view, even that wasn’t working! If you go to the website you’ll hear some other stories that sounds similar to mine. I hate to say it, but I would suggest that even though this is an affordable system, you pass it by.

So the cameras work great. Very easy to install. None of that has anything to do with BlinkHomeMonitor. BlinkHomeMonitor works very well to set up and configure your unit and cameras. Very simple to operate and very impressed with how quickly I get a notification. I will say the notifications seem to be a bit delayed versus something like a ring video doorbell as you don’t get notified until after the video is completed and uploaded to Blink which takes several seconds, however the video is crisp and clean and pulls. down after server very fast.

My one real complaint is the notification sound on your iPhone is the same as most every other notification therefore unless you just look at every notification comes in you don’t know anything’s happening tell you check. Would be really nice to have a unique notification sound or a choice of notification sounds in the settings

First time user. Just got it today for Christmas. It comes with one set of lithium batteries for my two cameras. The sync module attaches to a long cord that then attaches to the plug and then into the wall vs being flat against the wall plug. It has to be close to the router and since my router is in the laundry room the sync module has to sit on my kitchen counter top or hang from a plug onto the ground. Who wants a devices taking up counter space or hanging down their wall to the ground?
Biggest annoyance is It DOES NOT COME WITH INSTRUCTIONS! How on earth did people before me mount the cameras? I have no clue as there are zero instructions on how to mount the cameras it only tells you how to sync with BlinkHomeMonitor . It is extremely frustrating and will be the reason I return it. Plus what are the holes at the bottom of the cameras for? Have no clue. How do you sell something without instructions?!
Also when I hit live on the camera it freezes or only takes for a few seconds at a time. It’s extremely exasperating. I would have never picked it out on my own and my mother feels awful for buying it. Nothing but a headache.

Please Add Two Form Authentication

Also, video footage gets backed up in the Clip Roll after deleting them and they're invisible. The percentage eventually goes up in one percent increments after deleting all footage a certain amount of times. There will be no files after deleting all, but will eventually show the percentage going up after deleting throughout the week. The only way to access those files is to delete BlinkHomeMonitor , download it again, sign in, and all the backed up videos will appear. They range from videos recorded that day, to even the week before. Once here, they can be deleted, and the percentage goes back down to zero. But this always happens so, I eventually have to delete BlinkHomeMonitor after about a week or two of usage.

There is a quick start guide included in the box, and a larger “user guide“ on the web. However the information in the user guide is lacking detail needed to understand the settings on the camera. In addition it tells you nothing how to adjust the mounting bracket. Yeah it’s two screws and you tighten them both, but when you have an expensive item don’t want to just go ahead and do things without reading somewhere the correct way to do it. The “auto illuminator“ is not explained in the user guide. I had to do a search online to find out what it was. Basically it’s an LED light that comes on to illuminate the recording. Little more information on what the settings mean would help also. Overall, the pictures are clear pretty easy to set up, even for a 57-year-old woman!

I usually don’t write reviews but after seeing all the idiotic comments I decide to add my 2cents. I’ll start by saying I love the set up, great cameras that do what it’s supposed to. The new block feature is buggy but it’s still in beta so no surprise there. There’s not much to setting these things up, most problems people had listed sound like user error. The most important thing with the cameras are to make sure you’re getting good signal. You can check your signal on BlinkHomeMonitor . Adjust until you have at least 3 bars for optimum performance. Pair that with lithium batteries and everything will work like a peach. Alkaline batteries make the camera function a lot slower and you can notice decrease in overall performance.

If you have a strong WiFi signal and know how to adjust app settings with common sense, you won’t have the issues people are complaining about with bad reviews inside here.

People, it does record what happens the moment motion is triggered. You have to go to the folder in the top right corner of your app for those recordings. Conversely, if you click the motion notification, it takes you to the “live view”, which is after motion has seized to exist and why you don’t see anything in the camera. Again, go to the folder on top right corner of BlinkHomeMonitor to see what the recorded triggered motion was!

For the price, this system is absolutely impressive!

Love this system. Blink has really come up with a unique security camera system that offers quality and features you don’t find elsewhere at this price point. It’s very affordable and expandable with no surprise costs, everything you need is included.
The only feature this truly needs to make it a 5 Star in my book is the ability to define the motion zone in the camera field of view so you can exclude things like a busy street and focus only on what you care about, like your yard. The Ring doorbell does this very well, and if you could steal their technology, then we’ve really got something. As it is now, I have to disarm it at @ 7am because the alerts are insane.

Otherwise, I can’t recommend this enough.

I am using these cameras for home security. I have been using them for about three weeks and the batteries are dead. No warning either, the indicator went from “ok” to “low” and once it goes to low that actually means dead and cameras no longer function. I realize with the XT2 cameras the batteries should last longer, I hope so.
Cloud storage isn’t very much...and saving clips outside BlinkHomeMonitor doesn’t include the time and date stamp as BlinkHomeMonitor does. When you are a victim of a crime and need proof, the cameras catch it but need a better way to preserve it. Court dates take awhile...
Video clips are great, the cameras trigger when Needed and capture what is going on around the exterior of my home. Considering to add more of the XT2 once they become available

Great picture during the day. Night vision didn’t work until 2-3 hours after complete dark so most notifications were black picture recordings. Had 146 false notifications first day, then camera didn’t even record someone walking through my yard even with higher sensitivity. Turned sensitivity down but still got lots of false notifications. Cameras were recording too late after motion had already passed them. Lot of flaws in this system that still need to be worked out with blink!! Cameras have a great picture, but won’t let you look at live feed anytime cameras are recording so if you are getting a false recording or any recording, you can’t look at live view during. Ended up returning this system within 7 days of purchase.