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Thanks very much, not sure the night vision distance is up to what Im looking for. But interesting all the same, good enough for a normal house set up though.
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Ring requires a subscription after 30 days otherwise you get no recordings and less accurate detection.
Blink cameras and doorbell can be used like Ring and have 30 day trial of their cloud service. But Blink also sell a Synk module and with that you can use your own USB memory stick to keep your recordings free with no subscription. Hence why I am ditching ring subscription and moving to the blink system for cctv and video doorbell on USB memory.
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Yes. With the Sync module you can use any USB pen drive up to 256gb in size and select a setting to record on local storage with no subscription required.
The only thing worth noting if you don't have a blink subscription is the following:
This is the same as Ring doorbells. Both will still give you motion alerts but no people detection flag unless you have a subscription.
Ring won't allow any local storage so no recordings at all with no paid subscription. Whereas Blink do allow you to use your own USB storage.
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One thing I did notice last night during heavy wind and rain was large water droplets on the lens making things blury.
So I ordered one of these 3d printed rain hoods from ebay to see does it stop that from happening
In terms of motion sensing I am still playing with the camera settings to find the sweet spot of picking people or cars up accurately but avoiding false triggers.
This is how you can turn off motion areas to avoid false alerts. You can go deeper than this in terms of area tiles but this works well for me:
Advanced takes you to a zoomed in photo and more cells to control / fine tune.
For example my clarke garage was tripping the rear camera so I removed it from the motion detection area.
One front camera was blurry last night but fine again today so I'll check what might be causing that.
There are battery powered floodlights available for these cameras too. I may look at one for the back camera which is in a fair amount of darkness. This would mean that I could turn the floodlights on and off with my phone anywhere in world and see clearly before turning off again. Or of course if I replaced the faulty PIR on my large LED mains floodlight then no need
So I ordered one of these 3d printed rain hoods from ebay to see does it stop that from happening
In terms of motion sensing I am still playing with the camera settings to find the sweet spot of picking people or cars up accurately but avoiding false triggers.
This is how you can turn off motion areas to avoid false alerts. You can go deeper than this in terms of area tiles but this works well for me:
Advanced takes you to a zoomed in photo and more cells to control / fine tune.
For example my clarke garage was tripping the rear camera so I removed it from the motion detection area.
One front camera was blurry last night but fine again today so I'll check what might be causing that.
There are battery powered floodlights available for these cameras too. I may look at one for the back camera which is in a fair amount of darkness. This would mean that I could turn the floodlights on and off with my phone anywhere in world and see clearly before turning off again. Or of course if I replaced the faulty PIR on my large LED mains floodlight then no need
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can you have the same cameras connected to a few viewing devices , say mine and mrs phone and laptop?
any pics of the mountings ?
any pics of the mountings ?
Yes, but double check OS requirements for your devices. iPad / iPhone and Android are ok, but don't think there is a Blink app for Windows laptop
This shows the mountings
My ring came with 12 months cloud and I am pretty sure my blinks did.
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Well, that's ordered.
You too?
Sometimes I swear this forum just exits to part me from my money!
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OK so I noticed something tonight about the night vision. Depending on where your cameras are located and lighting conditions you may be better turning auto night mode off.
My front garden is well lit from LED Streetlight glow and my own house lights.
In auto night vision picture quality is poor:
But if I turn night vision off it is a better picture in these conditions
Another example is my carport. Poorly lit:
Night mode off:
So in that case I'm better with night vision on and turned up max:
So just play with the settings for each camera to see what works best for you.
I am leaning towards having night mode off where I have good LED security lights. Having night mode off will likely save the Blink's batteries also.
My front garden is well lit from LED Streetlight glow and my own house lights.
In auto night vision picture quality is poor:
But if I turn night vision off it is a better picture in these conditions
Another example is my carport. Poorly lit:
Night mode off:
So in that case I'm better with night vision on and turned up max:
So just play with the settings for each camera to see what works best for you.
I am leaning towards having night mode off where I have good LED security lights. Having night mode off will likely save the Blink's batteries also.
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The low light images are very good considering the price. Id forgotten how much light pollution there was. We are just over a mile from tarmac in a recognised dark sky area.
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not trying to be negative here , but do you think they would help identify a scrote ?
mrs keeps on we should have some , but i argue all we would see is a hoodied /baseball hatted figure doing the dirty , doest look enough detail to pick up a face ?
mrs keeps on we should have some , but i argue all we would see is a hoodied /baseball hatted figure doing the dirty , doest look enough detail to pick up a face ?
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Probably not, no. But then the Police are the weakest link there. No matter how clear the cctv is they won't do anything about it regardless! So pointless going that route to begin with.
They are good for the convenience factor to know if parcels have been delivered etc and speak to the driver through doorbell if required. I can close my gates using an app once I see something I wad waiting on has been delivered.
And just to know if someone is snooping then I can go outside myself or contact family if I'm away and go look.
I guess I only want them so I can go out with a big baseball bat (I dont need the hat) and the dog though... I'm not lookomg for a fight but more to scare them off... we live in a rural spot... saw a light flashing around the hedges the other night. I went out, with a big torch and a hockey stick which happened to be nearby... I made a lot of noise and presence known on purpose... next morning my neighbour reported his telehandler stolen. Cameras like these could be handy as so easy to setup around the place and tell me if someone had actually got in the yard.
