The third part of this equation is a small square receiver called the Sync Module 2. I haven’t had them long enough to need to do that yet, but ideally it should happen after about a year or more. Seeing as both the outdoor Blink camera and the floodlight are truly wireless, you’ll need to periodically replace the D-Cell batteries for the floodlight and the two AA batteries for the Blink camera. That’s important because you’ll be needing to do this once in a while to replace the batteries. It’s quite easy to pull the floodlight on and off from its location thanks to this wall mount design. When assembled together, the entire setup will slide into a wall mount with an insert layout that matches up with the back of the battery compartment. On that battery compartment is a ball mount which the outdoor Blink camera latches onto. They’re connected together by a center compartment that houses slots for four D-Cell batteries which will need to be replaced over time. This has two individual squared lights flanking to the left and the right of the camera. The second component is the wireless floodlight module. You can buy a standalone outdoor Blink camera and it’ll be exactly the same as the one I have in this package. The main component is the visual aspect which utilizes a 3rd generation outdoor Blink camera.
So how exactly does the Blink floodlight work? Think of this as three separate products that combine together to operate one function. While the feature set between all of these competitors vary depending on price, I found the overall offering from Blink to be substantial enough to not pay an extra $100 for a Ring or Nest.
So with that out of the way, I think it’s pretty self explanatory why I pulled the trigger on the Blink setup when it was down to only $90. The cheapest floodlight from a mainstream brand name is from Wyze which undercuts everyone with an MSRP of $85. Our Blink camera here has a MSRP of $140, but because Amazon is Amazon, it does seem to go on sale often. The Nest setup from Google has an MSRP of $280 with Ring slotting into the field slightly cheaper at $200 with their model. Let me preface this review by listing out other prominent players in the floodlight camera market and how much they currently cost. The price point and my familiarity with Blink were the deciding factors towards the purchase, but after months with the setup, is it actually a good product regardless of the price tag? What’s on the market My wife has been asking me to install a camera facing our driveway for quite some time now and I finally pulled the trigger on a packaged deal from Amazon that includes the (as of purchase) new Floodlight, 3rd Gen Outdoor Cam and Sync Module 2 for $90. I’ve had various Blink cameras stationed around my house for years now as the brand represents affordability and reliability to me.
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