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

A good set of wireless security cameras
An excellent set if you’re looking to have a small camera system (or additional cameras of this brand) for your home or business. As this one comes with two outdoor cameras, it should cover most of your basic needs or additions to your existing Blink system. The Outdoor 4 cameras are clear and easy to set up and even at night, you can adjust infrared lighting to supplement any to no lighting. Visual operating distance would probably be no farther than 10 feet to get good facial capture. Any farther and your Outdoor 4 camera(s) could be used to supplement what’s going on your property from a general standpoint. Each of the cameras detect motion and and start recording upon detection of movement, vehicles, or people. The algorithms or AI make pretty good determination of this. Keep in mind, this can run on AA batteries or an external power source like a solar panel that would plug into the USB-C port on the back. However, if you’re looking for something that gives you consistent live-view or multiple-camera view, you may want to look for another option. As far as power, if you’re going to do consistent live view (and only one camera at a time), you’ll probably want your cameras plugged in for power to an outlet. These are meant to be wireless as far as power. These cameras are good if you only need to know when the cameras detect something, making you go to the app and opt to use the live view to see what’s going on. You can only view cameras from the app, you can’t log into a website to watch from your browser. It’s still a good system, just be sure to study what your wants and needs are first for a video system and then determine if not consistently monitoring your video is for you, only watching clips of what’s going on when it records something.

Reliable, Clear, and Easy to Use
The Blink Outdoor 4 has honestly impressed me from the moment I set it up. Installation was quick and straightforward — you just snap it into the mount, connect it in the app, and it’s ready to go. The video quality is sharp both day and night, and the motion detection is responsive without being overly sensitive.I really like how well it works with the Sync Module. The battery life is strong, even with frequent motion events, and the app makes it super easy to check live view, arm/disarm, and review clips. The audio quality is also much better than previous generations, and the extended field of view helps cover more area with fewer cameras.Overall, the Blink Outdoor 4 is affordable, dependable, and perfect for home security. If you want a camera that’s simple, effective, and doesn’t require constant charging, this one is definitely worth it.

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.