Blink Home Monitor 4+

I love my blink system, battery life is great compared to others like Arlo and Ring which I had previously. Picture quality is also very good and is better than the others.
Three features I would like to see in a future update. Sharing access to others would be great, where you can grant them full or partial access, other systems like Arlo have this feature. And the other is animal’s! So it recognises birds etc so not to send notifications for a pigeon! Again Arlo has the feature where you can set it to only trigger or send notifications for people, cars and ignore animals like birds. The other would be for the phone to ring when the doorbell is pressed so you can answer it live. Rather than sending a notification, by the time you get to it, the person has already gone.
Over all this system is so much better than anything I’ve used before including Ring and Arlo. The added features I’ve mentioned would set it apart from the other systems in this price bracket.

If you have lots of clips, when scrolling down they don’t all load, then it jumps right back up today so you have to scroll all the way down again. Also it would be useful if you could filter unviewed clips, as currently I have to go looking for them. Then it jumps back up to the top so getting frustrating. Would be good if could show temperature on screen as well. I would love to be able to have different playback speeds that you can easily change, as I like to quickly play through clips to look for any events. All in all I like my blink cameras and used to prefer the old version of the app. I have been sucked into paying the subscription though as trying to watch clips from local storage is terrible.

Overall the app is fairly straightforward to use but I have a couple of frustrations.

Firstly I have to maybe every week or 2 log out and back in as I notice that I have stopped receiving any notifications from the cameras. The cameras themselves are still picking up the motion and record a clip but the app stops sending alerts.

Secondly and this is the bigger frustration, I have two cameras which over the course of a day record a lot of video clips, which is fine but I do not pay for a subscription and use a USB for local storage. It appears when doing this you have to manually delete video clips individually!! Rather than have the ability to select multiple then delete or simply “delete all”. This is really poor and I can’t help feel it’s an option that’s been disabled to try and force you to pay the subscription given how annoying it is to go through each clip slide to the left then select delete! This is an option that could easily be available but they have decided to leave it out.