Dirtbag kids

[Estpaul]

Instant notifications would be nice, or conatant alert until silenced would be a nice option.

[Mark_Griffith]

This would be a classic capture for me. Until Blink gives an instant notification ability, I use a driveway alarm system that gives me that immediate notification. I run to the window and yell at the the people in my driveway…I want them to know.

[suttyblink]

Almost immediate, and non-stop notification, until silenced, would be nice additions. I just don’t get the after recording is finished logic.

[Joel_Ek]

You’ll never get the true answer from Blink staff. But the logic comes from a very small company that makes specialty low power consumption chipsets. The camera, IR lighting/filter, PIR sensor, are off the shelf components. Somewhere in all of this hardware goodies is the staff that created the mobile app. It’s quite possible that to save power, you shut off the hardware loop and then activate the notification logic loop.

Just a guess on my end but I am willing to bet the guys that created Blink did not get with enough users of security camera systems to find out what the features actually need to be. This ooops lacking feature has again been repeated in the XT2 model. . It’s my understanding that 2 way audio doesn’t work during live recording. IF so, again features may have been separated out to save power.

Hindsight being 20/20 having a more feature rich system and advertising 1 year battery life instead of 2 year may have been better. 1 year battery life would have been very long life back when Blink was initially released a few years ago.

[Joel_Ek]

In both videos, you can not make out at night, who the actual person is. Night resolution is marginal compared to quality of video during day.

All the kids have hoodies up of course, although, there is a couple of very short moments when the face is actually looking at camera. ID of bad guy is kinda possible if you knew the person…

The kids touch the hoods to see if car is warm or not. Break into a cold hood = been sitting for hours and nobody around. The kids also try the door locks. Break into the car that is unlocked of course = no car alarm going off.

Even with instant notification from Blink, these kids would be running away. It is a group of kids or maybe even adults that are not rookies. They are a group, organized, and know what they were doing. Also the group will probably attack you if confronted. it would be 5 against 1. Yet another reason for groups doing this type of theft.

Seriously consider installing a very bright LED motion activated flood light. It scares bad guys away and Blink then records at night in color if you have IR set to auto or off. You’ll get much better quality video clips.

[LordNikon]

yeah sad to say, these people are scum. Even if you got an instant notification… unless you have a gun, its 5 punks vs you.

[Dakotahunk]

I figured it may be easier now since I can shut of the blinking for when brats like those show up to people’s cars. But still needs to have unlimited recording in case one of those boys face the camera during time it’s not recording.

[Joel_Ek]

But still needs to have unlimited recording

You bought the wrong system. Unlimited = multiterabyte hard drive = you need/want an always on camera system…not Blink.

[Dakotahunk]

Choice of 10 to 60 seconds or unlimited. If you put it on unlimited and then have it stop when no motion is detected like the choice you already have, then you don’t have to get a different one and like a couple people have said that they didn’t have enough time shown for an arrest.