Blink app wont show cameras plus#
If all these will do is give an alert and you have to live view at the time of the event without subscription the value of these cameras is going to be near non-existent as that is a huge battery drain plus who catches things immediately when gone. And unless they choose to store recordings for at least 24 hours for all devices, that basically breaks current local storage process of only backing up once a day. As someone else mentioned to me in another thread, the architecture is that the cameras exclusively only record to the cloud so unless they do some major rearchitecting Amazon is going to have to save video to their cloud regardless.
Blink app wont show cameras for free#
My hope is how this all works out they will retain cloud recordings for free for 24-48 hours to allow for their process to download to the USB media but added benefit for us we can actually see recorded events remotely after the event without having to go to the USB.
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That thread explains how it works today but doesn’t answer how it will work without a subscription since everyone has one today so imagine it’s a situation we can’t test.
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Here is a thread I with some detail from people that have it working. So, for you guys that are already working with the new cameras and won't pay for a subscription, can you share the experiences you have had so far? Have you had success with the local storage? Do you have any different information regarding the local storage work without a paid subscription?įew of us waiting for a straight forward answer here. So, I now asked them and am waiting the reply: how is this supposed to work alone without subscription if the video is copied into local storage only after 24h? Waiting. NOTHING!Ĭontacted Blink support again and they replied the backup to local storage would only occur after 24h. I attached the USB stick into my computer to see if there was a copy of the video there, and. Then, without the local storage attached, I deleted the video from the cloud thru the app. Then, I removed it expecting there was a copy there besides the one in the cloud (as I just registered, I'm under the free cloud storage for a while). Before this, I asked more than once Blink support team regarding the use of local storage, because I've read some people saying this would work only for backup and would not work without subscription, with make it completely useless and end us up with a REQUIRED subscription by all means in order to have the cameras working.īlink support replied me always saying that the local storage is AN OPTION for the PAID SUBSCRIPTION, so it would work alone and you would have all the functionality, with the videos being accessible from their app (of course while the local storage keeps attached), so the subscription would not be required.īut, here is what I tested yesterday: I created a video record with the LOCAL storage attached.
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Hello guys, I bought these new blink cameras, and just tried them yesterday for the first time.