Blink Outdoor 4 Wireless Security Camera

What This Is

The camera you can actually put up this weekend, because it needs no wiring at all.

Two Year Battery Is The Real Spec

Every wireless camera is great until you are on a ladder every six weeks recharging it. Two years on lithium AAs changes it from a chore into something you forget about, and it is why this outsells better-looking cameras.

Read The Subscription Line Before You Buy

Person detection is behind a Blink subscription, and without it you get motion alerts for cars, cats and tree branches. Local storage needs a Sync Module with storage, which the Core module is not. Neither of those is hidden, but both get missed, and both change the running cost.

And One Thing Worth Thinking About

This is a camera pointed at your home that depends on a cloud service. That is a reasonable trade for most people and worth making deliberately. If it is not a trade you want, wired cameras with local recording exist and cost more.