You can use your voice to arm and disarm the camera, and if you have an Alexa-enabled smart display (the Amazon Echo Show, Echo Show 8, Echo Show 5, or Echo Spot), you can view a feed from the camera on that device. ![]() Blink Mini review: Smart home compatibilityĪs Blink is owned by Amazon, it stands to reason that the Blink Mini would work with Alexa. Wyze also offers a paid plan, for $1.49 per camera per month, which will record motion to the cloud for as long as motion is detected. If you want to save longer videos-and eliminate the wait time-you'll need to save locally to a microSD card (up to 32GB, not included). However, the maximum length of a cloud-stored video is 12 seconds, and there’s a 5-minute wait time between recordings. ![]() Wyze offers 14 days of free rolling cloud storage. The Blink Sync Module 2, which will also require a USB drive (up to 64GB), will let you save video from up to 10 cameras. If you want to save videos locally, Blink will sell the Blink Sync Module 2, which will cost $34.99 when it goes on sale later this year. A Blink Plus subscription will cost $10 per month, but lets you add unlimited cameras from a single location. After that, if you want to save videos to the cloud, a Basic subscription will cost $3 per month per camera, and give you 60 days of rolling storage (but only up to two hours of recordings). Blink Mini review: Video Storageīlink Mini includes a free trial of the Blink cloud storage subscription through December 31, 2020. While I can see why the company would do this for its battery-powered XT2 camera, an automatic live view for the wired Mini would be preferable. Rather, you are shown a static image from the relatively recent past. Unlike with the Wyze app (and other home security cameras, such as Arlo Q), the Blink app doesn’t present you with a live view from the Mini when you open the app. However, the Wyze camera can distinguish between people and other movement (such as your dog), so you can opt to receive notifications only if it senses a person. There’s also no settings for the duration of a cloud-recorded video, because Wyze limits free recordings to 12 seconds. You can create schedules, but you can only draw a single rectangle or square to set a motion-detection zone.
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