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I added a Blink to my mailbox:
It also includes an alternate mounting option that may be helpful to others:
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Iām still waiting patiently for my tracking info. Itās been a few days now:sob:
Contact their support e-mail. They will respond with the status of your order.
I did and they said it was going to ship today and it never did.
The problem with Blink shipping is that the work like USPS. The package is shipped out, but they donāt mark it as shipped until it gets to you. Contact them as many times as you need. My friend received her system and had to RMA one of her cameras. They never sent her the tracking info, but she asked for the product shiping page and they gave her the link. And the camera arrived before it really tracked.
I received tracking late last night. Iām kind of pissed, 5 days handling time and you send it ground from CA to BOS. Tracking says I wonāt receive it until the 16th.
True True. They use FedEx to USPS handoff. Sign up for the FedEx account and you can keep track directly if anything is coming to your address. Just look for their point of origin shipping and that is Blink.
Thatās what I did and change the shipping to drop off at a Fedex location instead of to your home for pickup and you save about 4 days off of the transit timeā¦
I ended up returning my Blink Cameras. .the 30 sec lag to start recording was too long
Also there was no way to add multiple users to view the camera feed without sharing my login infoā¦
Quest continues for other monitoring options for our homeā¦
Is the :30 lag common with all cameras?
Did you contact support about the 30 second delay? I havenāt seen any lag and I have been using mine since KickStarter. Notificationsā¦That Yes!
This makes no sense to me. I have ten Blink cameras and they all record pretty much instantly on motion.
Insight from Blink:
The server starts receiving the video from the cameras soon as the camera gets on wifi and starts sending. That > usually takes 1-2 seconds, best case, much longer for bad wifi.
That would explain it possibly, check your WiFi quality.
Does anyone get a Blink logo in the lower right hand corner. I noticed Blinkās latest promotions include this:
I donāt have it in my video. This is one of the things I hate about Nest.
Do others have this logo in their videos or did Blink add this later?
I hope there wasnāt anything breakable in that package!! I would totally send that to the delivery company!
I never seen this logo in any of my camera recordings by Blink. I would think that they added it for advertising reasons.
If you hover over the video to activate the overlay options you will notice that the logo slides up and down with the overlay. So it isnāt in the video itself but added by the YouTube player.
Good point. You put my mind at ease.
Iām just afraid Blink may go down the route of Nest where they take a promising product like Dropcam and ruin it.
NO issues with my TrendNet or foscam cameras. there is no lagā¦