Introducing Blink Outdoor 4 Battery Extension Pack — Accessory for Outdoor 4 smart security camera, 4-year battery life, set up in minutes, batteries included

Nice to not have to change batteries for four years. If you have a camera in an inconvenient location, definitely get this.

One year and havent needed to replace batteries; I live in climate zone 7 (for you smarties out there)

Blink outside cameras aren't top notch, but when you need a security that's not wired, these work well enough

I purchased this camera and had no problems with it and recommend it. But, the extension battery pack requires you remove the existing two lithium (non-rechargeable batteries. It really seems poorly designed when you can't add the existing batteries to the extension pack, resulting in a 6-battery configuration. This same complaint extends to other Blink cameras that could use existing power. But the camera is good, and worked for over a year with heavy use. If I have to replace the batteries now I won't feel cheated, but why not change six instead of four?

Do not buy this equipment!!! I have (6) Blink outdoor Gen 4 cameras as well as a video doorbell. What Blink documentation says is that when a camera detects motion that it will send a notice to the "sync 2" module which will send it to your phone. On the app on your phone there is a button labeled "pics" that will display the number of pics available to view and when you hit the pic button you get a list of pics available. You can then watch the video to see what caused the motion. The documentation says that you can pay a monthly fee to store the vids on the cloud OR you can insert a USB drive and store the vids locally. However if you use local storage the app does NOT show you the number of vids available to view. In fact you CANNOT view the vids. They are stored to local storage but you must walk to the sync 2 module and eject the USB using the app. Walk over to a computer mount the USB drive and you can view the vids. Now lets say you are at a restaurant wether locally or far away. You get a notice that motion was detected at your back door, you cannot see what caused the motion without driving home and viewing the vid on your computer. What you don't know is the guy that caused the motion is in your home and clubs you over the head and takes your wallet as well as anything else he wants. As far as I am concerned this is fraud. Of course you don't figure this out until the free trial ends and the return period on Amazon has expired. I now own $500 of useless security cameras.***************************************************************************************************Update: Yesterday I received an e-mail from Blink support that said true, the vids button will not display the number of vids available if Local storage is being used. They don't say why. They do say you can see the vids in local storage using the app. So I asked them how. They sent an e-mail that said to select local storage from the "storage switcher menu". But it never said where to find the menu. Nowhere in the app is a storage switcher menu mentioned. Nowhere in the documentation is a storage switcher menu mentioned.I went through every path in the app and this menu is never mentioned.When using local storage the number of vids available does not show up on the vids button as it does when cloud storage is used. Why not? Even so if you hit the vids button at the top of the screen it says no recent activity - which could be wrong if in fact there was activity. I noticed at the bottom of that screen it says cloud storage followed by a downward arrow and to the far right an antenna symbol.Pushing the antenna symbol does absolutely nothing. Pushing the downward arrow, which typically means a drop down menu should appear, does absolutely nothing. Just because I had tried everything else possible I pushed on the text itself and low and behold a menu appears to select storage. Nowhere on either display page does it say storage switcher menu. Its like playing a video game and there are hidden paths to take. Now I only have local storage, so why does it say I'm using cloud storage, and why does it give me the option of selecting between cloud and local. This is a poor design and an even worse implementation. So, I selected local storage and in fact I could see my vids.This is after 2 weeks of dealing back and forth with support, and twice allowing them to take control of my system remotely. Once I was told they had to reboot my entire system including all cameras and the sync module. They said it HAD to be done remotely, doing it locally would not work.Never did anyone ask me if I had selected local storage and how to do it.So you can in fact see the vids in local storage but unless you read this review you may never figure out how.So now it is buyer beware!!!***************************************************************************************************The second thing is their documentation says that when you plug a USB drive into the sync 2 module if it is not formatted the sync 2 module will format it. IT DOES NOT!!! Easy fix plug it into your computer and format it.The third thing is I have vids where motion was detected caused by a car moving from right to left. When you look at the vid you see one second of the car leaving the left hand side of the screen. Useless if you need to identify the car and the driver. Blink has no answer for this. Useless if your neighbors house was robbed.Fourth thing, I have one camera that issue a motion notice every 15 minutes, 24/7 without any motion occurring. Blink has no solution for this . I've told them about it 3 times.As far as I'm concerned this is fraud. Amazon ought to be upset about this and should allow me to return the product with a full refund.DO NOT BUY THIS EQUIPMENT!!!

Since one of my cameras is mounted up high, I wanted to make sure it had a longer lasting charge. This extender allows four batteries.

Works very well but just buy the solar panels for the outside cameras

This invention created the extension in time of a great security system.