The Doorbell Camera worked great for a while before it wouldn't work anymore with brand new batteries, I tried three different sets of brand new lithium batteries and the camera keeps indicating that they are all dead but they are all fully charged as tested by meter, I put Alkaline Batteries and it worked for a few hours before saying the fully charged Alkaline Batteries were dead as well. The camera is defective and doesn't measure current properly and has a defective design that makes it stop working if the battery is low instead of running until the battery is actually dead like normal devices. Also there is no chime that goes with this only another indoor camera with a weak speaker that nobody can hear, so the only person that hears anything is the person ringing the doorbell outside. If you are watching tv you will never know anyone rang the doorbell. This should have been launched with an included wireless chime that is very loud with the ability to add multiple chimes.

Update I replaced the Energizer lithium batteries with a better brand of rechargeable lithium batteries and it started working again, it works faster fwiw I don't know why, but the Energizer batteries have been junk in my experience so far, maybe they made a huge batch of defective batteries I don't know, but for now the doorbell camera works again and better than it had ever worked previously. Amazon should decouple itself from Energizer and switch to a rechargeable brand like EBL that are better quality, I imagine that they have had a lot of returns and problems related to the Energizer batteries that are junk. I still took a star off for not having a real chime like every other brand of doorbell camera.

Originally we purchased a Ring doorbell which I loved initially until I realized it was stuck downloading firmware. Dealing with Ring support I cut my losses and got this doorbell from Blink. Quite literally 1/5th the price of the Ring.

The Blink doorbell nearly fit in the same location which was nice. Now I only have a small hole where the Ring unit was. This doorbell only has 2 screw holes for securing it to the house, less than ideal but still, secure enough. It is able to be wired into a regular doorbell transformer so I have it on ac power. I'm not sure if it was meant to be able to ring an indoor ringer but I couldn't get it to work, but also suspect the old indoor doorbell isn't functional. It came with the house that was built in 86 so I wasn't hung up on that working.

However... This doorbell doesn't come with a ringer, not really. It will ring OUTSIDE, the unit itself will chime, you will NEVER HEAR IT inside your house. I mean I supposed it's possible if you live in a tent. Blink has some indoor cams that will double as wireless door chimes, get a set, call it a day, you won't be disappointed.

Supposedly you can get Alexa to squack when someone rings the door bell also, don't count on that working consistently, it's a nice thought, dare to dream right? We have 8 Alexa devices throughout the house and maybe 1 in 10 doorbell rings will also ring on the Alexa devices. The Blink indoor cams, chime every time so again, that's the best solution.

The doorbell also comes with a wedge if I remember correctly, for turning the doorbell from being buried in a corner to face into your entry way a bit more, but if there is siding or something that faces your doorbell towards the sky or something like that you'll have to figure out a way to aim it more directly at visitors. I ultimately removed a swatch of siding to mount the doorbell flush against the house and that was the best solution and viewing angle.

Overall, video picture isn't bad, motion detection is a bit sensitive, but still tweaking that. For the money you can forgive a lot of this doorbells short comings. None of them are deal breakers, but there are little things that you don't know about till you get your hands on one.

I will say this, research your purchase, if you already have Ring, stick with Ring, in order for most of these smart cams and doorbells to save videos, you have to subscribe to Blink, or Ring or whatever for their cloud storage. Typically it's $4 per single device or $10 for unlimited devices, per month. Originally I thought I had read that Blink would allow 7200 seconds for video storage in their cloud without a subscription. Yes that is correct but ONLY if you have what they call a legacy or grandfathered account. So if this is your first Blink device, and you want clip storage in the cloud, you will have to get the basic sub for that. If you have other Blink devices and a hub with USB flash memory storage, you can live without the sub. The nice thing about the cloud storage is you can manipulate your saved clips much easier than if you just have the hub and USB storage. It's a toss up depending on how much convenience you want. Just know that if you can't live without the cloud storage option, you will be paying for a sub for each brand (and apps for each to control them), there isn't anything out there that can combine them all into one. I didn't want to have Blink, and Ring, and ...? subs because that's getting expensive just to save clips so I opted to go with all Blink devices.

The media could not be loaded. If you are like me you are a happy existing Blink Camera user who is thinking about adding the door bell to your existing setup. I had a blink camera setup aiming at my front door so at first I was not too sure that I really needed the door bell. However for the cost I am very glad I got one. There are a couple of things to know:

(1) If you are an existing Blink customer, you do not need a second sync module. All you need is the door bell and you can simple add it to your existing account (as easy as adding an additional camera).

(2) If you are planning on hardwiring the blink doorbell to your existing doorbells wires. . . . you still have to use 2 AA batteries to power the camera. This did not make sense to me as I figured my hardwires would power it, but sure enough after calling Blink support I realized I needed to put the AA batteries in the camera. The hard wire will allow your blink doorbell to ring the doorbell in your home but will not power the camera.

(3) You can turn on motion detection or just have the blink door bell turn on when the door bell is rung. This is a nice feature. If you want to catch anyone that comes to your door (whether they ring the bell or not, you can simple turn this feature on in the app). If you want to save battery life and are only interested in door bell ringers you can turn motion detection off.

(4) It has two way audio, meaning you will always hear the person at your door. . . . but you can also choose to speak to the person if you choose. For me the audio the person at the door hears comes across a little staticky, but that could be my phone or the fact that I am using the corner mount.

(5) It has more of a fish bowl view so it catches a wide view (meaning it can cover most of your front porch)

(6) There is no additional cost to having the Blink doorbell or camera system. Unlike other door bell systems out there, there is no additional cost to the Blink Doorbell. The app is free, cloud storage is free, downloading images or videos is free, etc.

If you are looking to set it up with just batteries and no wiring to an existing doorbell system, setup is a breeze (will take two minutes). If you are looking to hard wire it, it is still pretty easy. I am not a handy man and what I know about electricity will shock you (get my joke) but even I was able to hard wire it. Get the doorbell, you will be glad you did. Hope this review helped.

I replaced my doorbell with the Blink Video Doorbell. When installing, I highly recommend pre-drilling like the instructions tell you. I tried just screwing the screws into the door trim with my torque screw set to 10lb-ft since that's what I usually use for more permanent applications. I usually use torque screws because I'm notorious for over tightening things. As I was turning one of the screws, the screw head twisted and came off of the screw body that was still inside the door trim. I got the embedded screw out with a plier and drove to my local hardware store and bought a box of screws. This time, I pre-drilled and screwed the screws in at 3lb-ft.

Apart from the screw mishap, the doorbell itself works great. I've been using it for about a month and get dozens of notifications on my phone a day. I was worried that the fairly decent number of people walking in and out, delivery trucks, and neighborhood traffic in front of my house would cause it to run out of batteries within a month, but it's still chugging along.

I'm not what someone would call handy. This was the first time I ever drilled a hole in my house, and the instructions were fairly simple and easy to follow. I was also really glad that the video doorbell integrated with my existing door chime on my first wiring attempt.

I was in the market for a doorbell camera and a big fan of Amazon. I discovered the great deal on the Blink Doorbell camera (Amazon Product) and bought a doorbell with module 2 package, a single doorbell and a module flash drive&mount. The set up was seamless. Downloaded the app, setup the module and the two doorbells...to be mounted later (I had to custom mount them with a spacer and move the frt doorbell wiring. The rear door bell mounted without an incident. After moving the doorbell wire (all the electrical requirements were met) I installed the front unit with a wedge. The existing door chime did not ring. I went back to the instructions and realized I had not designated the front bell to be wired...did not realize it was necessary. Then it was straight forward to go back and go through the "Wired installation" and the system responded great checking out my installation, ringing the chime and certifying the voltage and installation.
The interface through the app is very intuitive and straight forward to get the setup as we want it. I am very satisfied. Now I have to decide if I want to subscribe. I got the module two with USB memory to specifically not to subscribe; however, I am intrigued by the extended warranty as long as I keep the subscription (Yearly $100 for the whole system). I will evaluate the possibility in the 30 day trial and after to see the impact of not having it. I just have to decide while the 1 year warranty is in effect...as I read the details.
Therefore a high 5 star review. I realize there are more powerful and sophisticated units but at a considerably higher investment and most require a subscription. This system will give me the security I need.