There are Ethernet and USB ports on the Sync Module, but they're still not utilized. THE NOT SO GOOD Unused Ethernet and USB ports
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The live view and recorded clips are often too short to be usable, the cameras resolution and quality is mediocre, the lack of night vision is a big letdown for what is supposed to be a security cam system, and the Android app is sloooooooooow.ĢAA Lithium batteries for the cameras (2-5 years of battery life), MicroUSB for the Sync ModuleĨ02.11 b/g/n 2.4GHz Wi-Fi, Wired Ethernet, USB port for storage And the newly added Alexa integration was a big bonus since it would allow me to control the cams from my Echo Dot.The reality though, now that I've been testing the Blink cameras for about two months, is a little more sobering. The scheduled arm/disarm feature made more sense than geofencing for my small business with specific open/closed hours. Their short recorded clips promised to be perfect for my slow connection by not requiring a lot of bandwidth. Being wireless and functioning over battery power meant that I didn't have to worry about wires or black-outs I could even place the cams on the shelves right next to products. Here was a bundle of 3 cameras that cost just a tad more than a single cam from competitor brands, but that gave you total freedom over where you placed them. I could add my assistant as a member to the Canary and have it stay in Home mode when she's working, but the problem is she lives in the same building the pharmacy is located in, so based on her phone's geofence, Canary would never auto-arm.On paper, Blink would solve all of my issues.
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Canary ( full review), on the other hand, is quasi-perfect, if it weren't for one little quirk: I sometimes have to leave the pharmacy during work hours, and my phone's geofence triggers Away mode so I get notified of every movement that happens. It also doesn't have a native scheduled arm/disarm feature I really shouldn't have to manually arm and disarm my cameras when a simple time-based schedule is easy to implement. Having tried both the Piper and Canary in my pharmacy, to more or less mitigated results, the Blink seemed like the perfect solution.Piper ( full review) suffers from one major flaw: the camera doesn't turn itself back on after a power failure if the back-up battery is empty (and since we have lots of blackouts here in Lebanon, I got tired of buying new batteries every two or three weeks). When I first heard about the Blink security cameras, I was immediately impressed and intrigued. Updates can solve some Blink shortcomings, but not all of them.Setting up the different Blink elements.