What's going on, everybody?
So in today's video, I'm going to be showing you how to set up a Blink Camera Security
System in about five minutes.
So let's get started.
Okay, so just real quick, here's the box.
I got the two camera system.
You can get a single camera.
You can get five cameras, 10 cameras.
And as you can see here, two-year battery life, weather-resistant.
This one is actually the outdoor version, but I'm actually going to use it indoors.
You can use it either way.
It doesn't really matter.
It has day and night view.
Two-way audio right there, so you can actually talk to people and we'll demonstrate that
in a second here.
And then obviously it has a motion detector as well.
So it's a really cool system.
It's also really affordable and you can just add cameras as you need pretty easily.
So that's one thing I really like about it.
And you can access it on your phone, which I'll show you in a second here.
So let's open it up.
Okay, so here's what it looks like.
We have, this is a camera.
They look pretty small and kind of cheap, but they're actually really high quality cameras.
There's the second camera, and this is great if you need to attach it to a wooden beam
or some type of post if you're going to put it outside.
This is what we need basically to connect it to the wifi, which I'll show you.
So this is everything it comes with.
It's pretty straight forward, and then it also comes with batteries.
So you can get the hooked in version, but I prefer the batteries.
They last two years.
And the way the Blink System works, it really only activates once it sees motion.
So it's not like it's just running continuously, so guess you'll save some battery there, and
let's set it up.
So the instructions are pretty simple.
As you can see here, the first thing you need to do is download the Blink Mobile App.
So I already have that downloaded and I'll bring it up right now.
And it has this little cover on it so you need to take that off.
And then what's cool is ... I'm just inserting the batteries.
It has basically a way to unscrew it.
So I'm just going to unscrew it real quick and it should open.
So I just got it open.
I'm going to insert the batteries, which are supposed to last for two years.
Now, I'm just going to put this back on and then I'm going to close it up again.
Okay, so we got it closed up, and it also has this input right here.
So if you were to bring it outside, you probably would keep this closed, but if you want to
use it inside, you can use this, or you can just use it with a battery way, like I'm going
to do here.
So I'm just going to close that up and I'm going to do this for the other camera now.
Okay, let's put the batteries in this one.
Okay, so we're basically good to go.
You can see the red blinking light.
We just need to hook them up.
If you want it to connect them to the outdoors, you can basically snap these things in, and
it's really cool because it's very flexible.
This thing moves pretty easily and it's pretty sturdy too, so you can hook it up to something
if you needed to.
I'm probably just going to set this on the floor, just like this, but if you needed to
attach it to a wall or whatever it may be, it's pretty good for that.
Okay, so step number two is to plug in your Sync Module right here.
So I'm going to go plug this in.
I'm going to plug it in closer to the router, just to be on the safe side.
So let's go ahead and do that right now.
Okay, so here's my router, and excuse the carpet and the darkness.
This is a rental property I have, but I'm just going to put this in right here and hook
this up, and I'm actually going to bring the cameras over real quick.
So we've got the Sync Module.
We got the cameras.
Now I'm going to pull up the app.
Okay, so it's saying basically to create a new system and to name it.
So I'm just going to call it North East House 1.
And what is going to make you do is you're going to have to scan the QR code of the Sync
Module.
So the QR code is on the back of this, it's that little graphic design.
So I'm going to do that real quick.
"Plug in your Sync Module and wait for the lights to display blinking blue and steady
green."
So it's supposed to be blinking blue and steady green, which it is.
And then what you say is, "Discover device."
And when you add your Sync Module, it's going to pull up all the different wifi.
So I'm just going to add mine.
Then it's going to ask me for my password.
So I'm going to type that in real quick.
And after a few seconds or so, it says, "Sync Module added."
So we're going to click done.
And now what we need to do, so these are my three ... These are actually three properties
that have, but we need to add the actual cameras.
So I'm going to click on plus, and then I'm going to say, "Add a Blink Wireless Camera."
And then what I have to do is I have to scan the QR code, and the QR code is just on the
back of these cameras.
So you would just unscrew it and then the QR code ... My finger's covering it because
apparently it can be a security breach if other people have it.
But I'm basically just going to scan this right now and I'm going to say, we're going
to add it to this one.
And so now my camera's actually, we'll just have it pointing like right at me.
So it's looking for my camera.
It's trying to pick up my camera, should do it in a second or two, and there we go, camera
added successfully, so I'm going to say done.
You can change the name of this to dining room, living room, but I'll just show you
right now where it's at.
You can click on that and it'll give you a real-time view.
It's going to show me in a second here.
And what happens is a blue light goes on, so I'm going to move around a little bit.
And that's what it looks like.
So now what I'm going to do is I'm just going to add another camera, and then I'm going
to move these cameras around in the house.
Okay, so to add the second camera, just press plus.
We're going to add another Blink Wireless Camera.
I'm going to just unscrew the back of this thing, just snap it off and unscrew it.
So here's the back of it.
I'm just going to scan it again and it's going to ask me again, which house?
We're going to do this one, and now it's just going to load it up and try to find the camera,
which takes a few seconds.
Okay, so now I have my two cameras set up, and what you can do, you don't have to leave
him right next to the router, you can put them anywhere.
So I'm going to go ahead and put them in strategic places across the house.
Probably one in the hallway and one in the kitchen.
So let's go do that now.
Okay, so the first camera, I'm going to put it right outside the bathroom, so that there's
a room right there and there's a room right here.
So if anyone tries to sneak in, we're just going to have it right there, so nobody ... It's
a little dark.
And I'll show you what it looks like from the hallway view.
Let me just pan out.
So this would be good.
If anyone's walking here, it's going to pick it up.
Now my second camera, we are going to bring this to the kitchen area because that could
be another point of access.
So you can go really crazy with this and do 10 cameras.
I'm just going to do two.
I think that'll be good enough.
So let me put it over here.
Okay, so here's my second camera.
Let me just zoom out a little bit so you can see it.
It's right there.
It's very small, but it actually works really well.
And that should be able to, if anyone comes in through there or this right here, actually,
if somebody's working there, but this should be able to catch it, and I'll show you what
it looks like right now.
So I'm going to show you what it looks like on the app, and I'm also just going to give
you a quick rundown on how to use the app.
So here's the kitchen view and I'm actually going to walk right by the kitchen.
There you can see me, so it can pick that type of activity up, and I'm going to walk
right back.
So if anyone enters the kitchen, obviously it's going to catch them.
So here we have the app interface and I'm going to click on one of the camera's on the
left and it's going to pull up the hallway view where I put the camera.
And what's cool is in the little blue button, you can actually press talk and talk to people.
So if you have a contractor or someone like that, you can talk to them, or an intruder.
You can ask them what they're doing.
So it works really well.
The microphone is pretty clear.
I've had numerous conversations with contractors.
Haven't had any conversations with burglars or anything like that, but the microphone
works really well.
So here we are back at the main screen, and we'll label each camera in a second here.
I'll show you how to do it.
But the next thing you want to be aware of is how to arm it.
So if you look at the bottom right, right now it says, "Disarmed."
You want to actually change that to armed so that if anyone comes up, you'll get the
notification.
And up at the top, you can change between different properties.
So I just clicked on one of my other properties and I pulled up the live view.
So it was really cool because you can just check on all your properties, all through
the app.
Next up, we can change the name of the camera just by clicking on the text there, and I'm
just changing it ... You can change it to kitchen, bathroom, whatever it is, pretty
easy.
And then if you click on the top right, the little dash marks, then you can pull up the
settings for each camera, where you can change the name, but you can also get an idea.
You can see the battery, you can see temperature, motion detection is actually pretty cool,
which I'll show you.
And when you click on that, it basically shows you a grid, and if you gray out different
parts of the grid, it means it's not going to pick up any emotion there.
And the only you'd really want to do that, I had the emotion camera outside one time
and the tree branches kept signaling the camera.
So that's why I grayed it out.
So it's just kind of a cool, additional feature that you can do.
And then we have other things, like clip length.
I usually like to have it more than just five seconds.
So if someone comes into your house, you'd probably want it more than five seconds, so
30 seconds is pretty good.
And you can do sensitivity as well.
Sensitivity, sometimes you need to be careful with that because sometimes just a little
change in the lighting will set it off.
So it just depends on where you are, and if you get a lot of notifications, then you might
want to change the sensitivity to a lower amount.
And we also have microphone and speaker volume, so I'd probably keep that turned up all the
way.
Quality, you can always change that.
I have it on standard.
I haven't had any issues.
Some people might do best, but not a big deal.
So we're just going to update the name to hallway.
And then when you click on the little camera icon on the right, it's going to take a photo
of where that camera is.
So that's pretty cool right there.
So you can just have a better idea as opposed to just only labeling it.
So as you can see, I just armed the property and I'm going to show you what it looks like
when it gets set off.
So if you have it set up properly and the motion detector goes off, you're going to
get a little notification at the top of my screen, as you can see there, and then you
can see what's going on.
So you can see me lurking around in the hallway, doing who knows what, and that's when you
would be able to check.
And also here's another notification from the kitchen.
You can see it picks that activity up, even though it's pretty minor, and then it saves
the clips for you.
So you can delete them.
You can save them, you can do whatever you want with them.
So let me know what you think, and if you have any questions, drop them in the comments
section below, and I also put a link to purchase them as well.
Really cool, highly recommend it for investment property or just for your own personal residence.
It's very convenient, very flexible, and very easy to set up.
So thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video.
Bye.