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Blink XT2 | Outdoor/Indoor Smart Security Camera with Cloud Storage,..

Best price: £149.00
  • Extended battery life - 2-year battery life on two AA lithium b..
  • 2-way audio - Talk to visitors through the Blink app on your sm..
  • Customisable motion detection - Use activity zones to choose wh..
  • Works with Alexa View live streams, motion clips, arm and disa..
  • Day and night coverage - Record and view in up to 1080p HD vide..

Product Attributes

  • Size: 1-Camera System

Positives

Neutrals

Negatives

44.1% 10.6% 45.3%

Senti Score  [54.7%]

Netvue Outdoor Security Camera 1080P Waterproof Wireless WiFi Bullet..

  • See Hear and Talk In Real Time With the built-in microphone and..
  • Crisp FHD Video Even at Night With the advanced 1/2.7" CMOS sen..
  • Notify You once Motion Detected When motion is detected, Netvue..
  • Full Metal Shell, Built To Last With full-metal housing and IP..
  • Quick Setup & Stable Connection Easily complete the entire setu..

Product Attributes

  • Width: 2.6 Inches,
  • Height: 2.6 Inches,
  • Weight: 1.3 Pounds,
  • Length: 7.6 Inches,
  • Size: 1 Count (Pack of 1)

Positives

Neutrals

Negatives

70.9% 11.0% 18.1%

Senti Score  [81.9%]

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Blink XT2 | Outdoor/Indoor Smart Security Camera with Cloud Storage,..

faulty absolutely brilliant better just disappointed brilliant awful awful absolute garbage excellent cheap excellent product absolutely love best great terrible poor useless

Netvue Outdoor Security Camera 1080P Waterproof Wireless WiFi Bullet..

total darkness brilliant crap routers excellent product great false expensive works perfect complete waste excellent best difficult poor better works brilliant expected

Compare Cons

very disappointed in both products

"i was so excited to get this system but i was very disappointed"
99.0%

only gripe in both products

"my only gripe with this product is the quality of the wall mounts that come with each camera"
74.9%

major issue in both products

"there is a short lag for the clips to upload to the cloud but i haven’t found this to be a major issue"
74.8%

more expensive in both products

"but if they only last a year i will be happy as it’s still more than other more expensive systems"
74.8%

false alarm in both products

"better screen masking options to block areas with plants or false alarm"
74.8%

error message in both products

"called blink support and they never heard of error message like this and told me to return it to amazon"
74.6%

slight issue in both products

"one slight issue is that occasionally the signal drops however this can be easily remedied by restarting the 'sync module"
74.6%

only problem in both products

"night vision has changed to a closer range to cam lense only problem so compared to old xt not quite as good"
74.5%

very expensive in both products

"originally i changed to blink from the first arlo cameras that were very expensive not as good quality video used batteries that were expensive and only lasted 6 month max before needing to buy new batteries"
74.3%

false triggers in both products

"postman deliveries cars on and off driveway however it can still pick up headlights at night within the self set exclusion areas areas set within phone software so position and direct the lens carefully to avoid false triggers as this can deplete the battery life max life approx 2 years "
73.4%

false alarms in both products

"my gripes are you get an intruder the alarm sound on your phone will most likely be inadequate as it uses your notification sounds which are in my experience very short but it also means you get false alarms whenever other notifications come down which can be very frequently"
73.4%

built in speaker in both products

"using the built in speaker is a bit clunky !"
73.3%

only negative in both products

"the only negative for me is the lack of full integration with smartthings"
72.3%

further issues in both products

"update: after amazon responded and suggested another camera in addition to the original i have seen further issues with the blink technology and will be returning both cameras"
72.2%

brick walls in both products

"setup was super easy but please note you need wall plugs if you're installing on brick walls you get screws included in the box but no wall plugs"
71.5%

more difficult in both products

"these cameras are one of the best options if you want a close to completely trouble free & wireless installation without having to lay extra wires do anything more difficult than minor drilling with the right accessory mounts you may not even do any drilling at all thus not needing a technician"
71.5%

connection issues in both products

"i can't stress enough that some negative reviews on this product are down to simple mistakes from the user not the device this inculdes wifi range and the strength of your wifi unfortunately if your have poor wifi you will have delays and possibly connection issues"
71.1%

power cable in both products

"i would say that if the camera is situated in a busy area then definitely get a power cable as the batteries will not be reliable and you will spend a fortune on replacing them"
69.6%

waste your money in both products

"do not waste your money"
68.1%

awful awful

"by the time the app opens 10 12 secs and the awful awful lag catches up whoever was at the door has gone"
100.0%

just disappointed

"just disappointed"
99.9%

absolute garbage

"absolute garbage"
99.7%

just not good

"will be returning this as its just not good at what it is meant to be good at"
99.7%

total disaster

"one of the main selling points "2 year battery life" is a total disaster"
99.6%

really pointless

"which is a really pointless requirement when you're talking about outdoor cameras"
99.5%

extremely poor

"further to this when i brought the camera's inside next to the sync module they do work however the live stream lag is extremely poor and hit and miss if it loads at all"
99.4%

really disappointed

"really disappointed"
99.3%

shockingly awful

"the quality is shockingly awful!"
99.2%

quite disappointing

"you can't distinguish faces 10 feet away just not up to amazon's usual quality just thought i had to review as it was quite disappointing"
99.1%

really frustrating

"well they are really frustrating!"
99.0%

just awful

"the wifi signal is just awful making the camera close to useless for me"
98.9%

really annoying

"i live in a small bungalow which doesn’t bode well for a large house really annoying have tried reinstalling camera and showed full bars on wifi but yet again no ‘live view’"
98.8%

quite distorted

"part of the problem is that the camera lens is quite distorted and out of focus over most of the field of view and is only really sharp in the center of the image"
98.8%

incredibly disappointing

"incredibly disappointing that it cannot be used as a trigger for alexa or smart home functions"
98.1%

lags terribly

"at lowest possible settings it lags terribly even with a high end router and high speed broadband"
97.7%

absolutely terrible

"terrible absolutely terrible"
96.7%

awful product

"awful product delayed triggering time which means someone could get out of view before recording begins"
96.6%

outrageously poor

"actually its outrageously poor considering the cost of the camera and i see already that amazon is offering additional additional mounts for a further £9"
95.9%

completely trouble

"these cameras are one of the best options if you want a close to completely trouble free & wireless installation without having to lay extra wires do anything more difficult than minor drilling with the right accessory mounts you may not even do any drilling at all thus not needing a technician"
94.8%

pretty poor

"the quality of the picture is reasonably good in the day time but night vision is pretty poor even at the enhanced quality setting"
94.6%

cold conditions

"also had to put these up high due to how easy they pop off the wall mount criminals would take them easily lol i’ve just ordered the silicone covers for them so that might help with the cold conditions "
93.6%

very untidily

"which means it just hangs from most sockets very untidily"
92.7%

biggest waste

"biggest waste of money i have ever seen"
91.9%

poor show amazon

"poor show amazon"
90.7%

embarrassing product

"it's an embarrassing product that amazon should not of put there name to"
90.4%

seems pointless

"the motion detection is delayed so it seems pointless to use it as a communication to talk to deliveries because when they come and the camera records you can’t physically access the live stream as it says ‘camera busy’ as it’s recording?"
90.0%

garbage where it belongs

"it is now going straight to the garbage where it belongs"
89.9%

very disapointed

"received the blink xt2 yesterday and was very disapointed"
89.5%

fails first time

"if you try to see who's at the door and it fails first time and you try to view again it just says "live view in progress" when it isn't"
89.5%

terrible customer service

"terrible customer service not worthy of the amazon brand in my opinion"
89.4%

faults in design

"it's ok but still has faults in design"
89.1%

absolutely useless

"live view absolutely useless"
88.9%

frustrating a little

"this may sound small but its frustrating a little at times"
88.4%

actually useless

"as is compared to the nest & foscam models i own i've found using this item very frustrating to the point where i really feel like it's not just limited but actually useless"
87.7%

completely unrealistic

"if you need to get an appreciation of the kind of issues then read the other reviews and be aware that some of them are based on completely unrealistic expectations"
86.9%

wasted money

"i had planned on adding more cameras to the system but im not left wondering if i would just face the same issues again and with less options for placement it could just end up being wasted money"
75.0%

delay tactics

"i think blink know there's a manufacturing problem with the xt2s and are going through delay tactics"
75.0%

wasting time

"do not recommend as you could be wasting time depending on whether they'll send you a working unit or not"
75.0%

very harsh

"i’ve been looking at this for a few months and always been put off by some very harsh reviews of poor performance"
74.9%

unwelcome caller

"obviously that is not a satisfactory situation as an unwelcome caller may not be registered"
74.9%

limited range

"if i had been aware of the limited range of the motion sensors i would've probably bought something else i will stick with them and buy more cameras eventually"
74.9%

fault these

"if you bear that in mind you can't fault these at all"
74.9%

delay happens

"my camera has good wifi signal too but still delay happens"
74.9%

basically flawed

"this is basically flawed"
74.9%

fault them

"can't fault them at all"
74.9%

drops off rapidly

"the camera to wi fi strength reading drops off rapidly with distance and needs a repeater in every room blink give standard complcated answers not applicable to uk internet providers especially with dual frequency routers"
74.9%

returning mine

"i’m returning mine as they must be broken"
74.9%

detached house

"i am fortunate enough to have a detached house and there is 1 camera on each side 4 "
74.9%

ridiculous task

"another problem by the way is getting the back of the cameras and almost impossible task i know they have to be waterproof but it is a ridiculous task involving a lot of frustration and asking other people to try"
74.9%

heavy frost

"we've had some torrential rain since installing them and the camera housing has withstood the downpour a heavy frost did obscure the lens one night until the sun warmed things up"
74.9%

hack things

"all because a lot of people dont know what they're doing i have a mine field of easy to set up and hack things out there and trying to find a security device i can be sure is safe"
74.9%

unwanted activations

"they look good work excellently and have a great feature where you can block out certain parts of the area to prevent unwanted activations which for cheap cameras like these are a brilliant function my arlo set up doesn’t even have this!"
74.9%

wasting money

"never written an amazon review before but thought it would be best to warn anyone thinking about wasting money on these"
74.9%

wooden cladding

"i had both cameras mounted within 10 mins i have wooden cladding outside so was quick to do but any surface to screw in the bracket will be quick once you have rawl plugs in if not onto wood"
74.9%

massive problem

"i would have been very satisfied except for one massive problem"
74.9%

just very slow

"fibre wifi 500mb and this camera is just very slow"
74.8%

hardware issue

"i did contact customer services and they tried to resolve it and eventually stated it was a hardware issue so they immediately sent me another camera but the replacement is exactly the same"
74.8%

limited time

"99 during the limited time sale"
74.8%

practically useless

"unfortunately the xt2 camera fog in cold weather making them practically useless"
74.8%

drops however

"one slight issue is that occasionally the signal drops however this can be easily remedied by restarting the 'sync module"
74.8%

removed and stolen

"easily removed and stolen"
74.8%

delete videos

"however with constant alerts from motion detection the storage soon fills up it’s not as user friendly to quickly delete videos either to free up space i have hundreds of videos at this point of basically both happening"
74.8%

even worse

"in night mode the image is even worse as expected i suppose"
74.8%

being stolen

"i would advise hat they are put in a discrete or high position to prevent then being stolen"
74.8%

infuriating electronics

"they are truly one of the major infuriating electronics"
74.8%

does n't work

"firstly the night vision just doesn't work"
74.8%

failed straight

"1 failed straight out the box with no sound had a nightmare trying to get it replaced and still waiting support team lied to me telling me it was coming in next "few days" it's already been a week and still not materialised despite it having been sat in the dpd depot for the last 3 days"
74.8%

doing damage

"in this time the camera may capture someone approaching your front or rear door then during the 10 seconds break completely miss them entering the property or doing damage or anything else that you may want captured"
74.8%

dreadful service

"dreadful service"
74.7%

fails often

"blergh live view fails often"
74.7%

cheap cameras

"they look good work excellently and have a great feature where you can block out certain parts of the area to prevent unwanted activations which for cheap cameras like these are a brilliant function my arlo set up doesn’t even have this!"
74.7%

biggest issue

"the biggest issue i found was connectivity reliability the camera loses connectivity with the cloud too often reducing reliability"
74.7%

avoid this

"unless i park the car in exactly the same spot every night and set an exclusion zone around the windows there is no way to avoid this"
74.7%

connection problems

"i just wonder if i should have sent it back when i realised there was a connection problems ?"
74.7%

become blurred

"the quality is good at distance but the images do become blurred if you zoom in to the max but that being said i think they are good enough"
74.7%

brittle plastic

"they’re brittle plastic and come with just two screws no wall plugs etc"
74.7%

losing connection

"constantly losing connection"
74.7%

mine avoid

"i’m returning mine avoid!"
74.7%

trouble shoot

"it also provides a link to trouble shoot this problem"
74.6%

avoid blink

"if thinking of buying the recommended camera shields for incelment weather again dont bother the wind blows the water onto the cameras and the fixing stems rust its only been two months save your money and yout valuable time avoid blink"
74.6%

were expensive

"originally i changed to blink from the first arlo cameras that were very expensive not as good quality video used batteries that were expensive and only lasted 6 month max before needing to buy new batteries"
74.6%

main issue

"another main issue is that you cant use local storage without manual downloads or purchase more cloud storage"
74.6%

delete them

"the only thing the app is missing for me is that you cant mass download the clips all at once you can however mass delete them"
74.6%

storage allowance

"you get a decent amount of storage allowance"
74.6%

storage thumbnails

"ease of installation pir motion detection meaning fewer false triggers free cloud storage thumbnails in the software to quickly indicate what caused the trigger night vision 2 way audio alexa integration etc"
74.6%

ignore them

"if they alarm now i get my torch and go look in my garden or ignore them as for watching footage "
74.6%

lazy programmers

"your lazy programmers can't learn how to escape dangerous characters welcome to the 20th century"
74.5%

connection operation

"i've had a blink interior system for some time and i am completely happy with it the video quality and ease of connection operation is unbeatable in my opinion"
74.5%

slight drawbacks

"the only slight drawbacks are the max 60 sec recordings before a 10 sec pause but have found so far that 60 sec are ample"
74.5%

walked away

"in some cases the person is already turned around and walked away"
74.5%

missed events

"be prepared for multiple missed events and false alarms"
74.5%

another issue

"another issue the motion detection has is reflections"
74.5%

such nonsense

"batteries lasted 9 days on the front camera 😂😂 if you want to actually see what's going on at home get a wired one there's literally no point in these the 2 year claim is honestly such nonsense"
74.5%

spent ages

"you cant really see faces i spent ages trying to sort it out"
74.5%

pretty useless

"the instructions are pretty useless as this is app based just download the free app and follow the setup prompts"
74.5%

poor to okay

"night vision is poor to okay unless there is some light about"
74.5%

very blurred

"daytime quality is ok but the night mode is very blurred"
74.5%

shows low battery

"one of the three cameras run out of battery after only 5 weeks of use and the other two also shows low battery"
74.5%

very blurry

"night vision is very blurry which is a shame because the daytime images are really clear"
74.5%

very limited

"2 battery life is very limited unless you want the camera to be non operational for most of the time"
74.4%

failing regularly

"would be nice to have a way to reboot the camera and sync module via the app these are working well so far conected to bt home wifi mesh discs edit: few days in a live view on camera and thumbnail snapshot seem to be failing regularly at night when network usage in the house is at its lowest"
74.4%

self isolate

"i have ordered and got a washing machine which i love and many household products delivered which is so helpful as i have been told to self isolate"
74.4%

substandard camera

"9 months later still not fixed the issue reported to management level broken promises of firmware update to address these issues have been unanswered junk camera poor customer support steer clear of this substandard camera that is painful to use"
74.4%

battery warning

"update: just 17 days after getting the camera and setting it up i have got a low battery warning"
74.4%

buzzing sound

"when you do a live view there is an awful buzzing sound for a second or so before the audio comes through"
74.4%

almost dead

"my garden device is almost dead after one month!"
74.3%

silly problems

"i installed outside under the roof to monitor the access back to the garden a part some silly problems with the motion sensor due to the smokes of the boiler i installed it too close my fault it works perfectly: hd video in day night vision that allows to recognise faces but it takes a lot of power of course decent audio quality in night vision it crackles on ios but not android in my case the time lapse to receive the notification is 10sec tested at home and at work using mobile 4g network"
74.3%

they fall down

"must admit i really like these cameras but where they fall down is when it comes to setting a schedule regardless of how many cameras you have linked up you can only set it to turn them all on or all of together"
74.3%

flat alexa

"don’t even have to worry about the batteries going flat alexa can be set up notify you and even order replacements from amazon"
74.3%

does n't record

"also to note sometimes we go or leave by the front door and it doesn’t record"
74.3%

negative reviews

"did some research & was almost put off by one or two negative reviews"
74.3%

just limited

"as is compared to the nest & foscam models i own i've found using this item very frustrating to the point where i really feel like it's not just limited but actually useless"
74.2%

only solution

"4ghz only solution"
74.2%

loses signal

"what then happens if the module or the cam loses signal is that the cam does not work you get a blank grey screen on the the app saying disconnected"
74.2%

dissatisfied customer

"one dissatisfied customer"
74.2%

eventually gave

"i struggled for a couple of hours to get it set up so alexa would notify of a 'visitor' but eventually gave up and called amazon who looked up the problem and discovered that it only works in the usa and canada and not in the uk yet?"
74.2%

virtually impossible

"however i set one up outside in the daytime it was fine come night time it was virtually impossible to see anything i had to go outside to look because i thought an extremely thick fog had descended it was literally impossible to see anything at all when the motion detector alerted me to movement i can only assume it was a cat but all i could see was eyes as it moved across my patio"
74.2%

spurious alarms

"it is easy to set up trigger areas within the field of view to eliminate spurious alarms"
74.1%

detest radius

"on the good side i like the motion detection and how u can choose what to detest radius and u can schedule them although u can’t pick an individual camera to schedule which is annoying "
74.1%

loses connectivity

"the biggest issue i found was connectivity reliability the camera loses connectivity with the cloud too often reducing reliability"
74.1%

main failing

"the main failing in my view is that it does not reliably reconnect to the wifi if there has been an outage e"
73.9%

nothing clear

"and they are very inconsistent and have a lot of failed errors the night vision isn’t amazing quite burred you can make out shapes but nothing clear"
73.8%

cheap camera systems

"the main problem with this system is the camera quality its poor compared to even the cheap camera systems"
73.8%

only limitation

"only limitation is the quality of your wifi signal but the camera system shows how strong the signal is during set up"
73.7%

utterly useless

"contacted the blink technical support but they were utterly useless repeatedly telling me to make sure it was switched on!"
73.7%

first frost

"had for 1 week reset twice because it lost wifi signal less that 30cm from router first frost this morning camera picture terrible"
73.7%

have declined

"another surprising and disappointing factor is when i’d contacted amazon in this and asked for them to be replaced they have declined and can only offer a 30 day faulty return policy!"
73.6%

lost connectivity

"we now have a camera at every access point to the property doors windows gates garden fence and not one of them has lost connectivity despite the large area they’re monitoring"
73.5%

returning this

"however i am pleasantly surprised and am not planning on returning this as it stands"
73.5%

with 2 holes

"up my neighbour going to work this morning very easy to install i think it took me longer drilling the walls with 2 holes i have a really expensive wired cameras set up and they are great i was really socked how easy it was i had to drill holes for my wired installation i wish these were about then"
73.4%

clicks noisy

"night vision camera clicks noisy when comes on and off and red light is switching on and sensitive to light"
73.4%

additional module

"i am copying a statement from the product description down here and please tell me if any part of that would indicate that "hey btw this camera is totally useless without buying an additional module""
73.2%

mounted low down

"the mount is a bit feeble and it would be simple to steal one of these if it was mounted low down"
73.2%

main problem

"the main problem is the lag in picking up movement"
73.0%

wasted my money

"delay between motion and detection and notification wasted my money as usual with amazon reviews 😡😡😡"
72.9%

wasting my money

"all in all i would not recommend purchasing this product and am seriously regretting wasting my money"
72.9%

time consuming

"so this was difficult fiddly and time consuming"
72.8%

over priced

"i'm just saying that this product is not as good as it claims and for that reason it is way way way over priced"
72.7%

n't easily spotted

"luckily i had positioned the blink in a corner above the front window so it was well tucked away and wasn't easily spotted"
72.6%

give 0 stars

"can’t give 0 stars sadly!"
72.5%

short views

"only had few months and app on phone showing that battery's are low health mm to say these last for 2 years is crazy as i only used for short views "
72.5%

rather poor

"night vision is rather poor you are able to see a person moving from 10m but that's practically it "
72.4%

cold weather

"unfortunately the xt2 camera fog in cold weather making them practically useless"
72.3%

these 2 issues

"these 2 issues make this device completely unsuitable for my needs so now i just use it as a deterrent"
72.1%

constant alerts

"however with constant alerts from motion detection the storage soon fills up it’s not as user friendly to quickly delete videos either to free up space i have hundreds of videos at this point of basically both happening"
72.1%

short events

"it never catches the subject for short events"
72.1%

reinstall hint

"negatives: all four cameras have at some point gone offline leading me to have to delete and reinstall hint: make sure you have all the serial number of the cameras recorded in case you have to reboot them i didn't and had to climb back up a ladder to remove the camera and record the number"
72.0%

being impatient

"in truth i was just being impatient and it did connect after leaving it long enough to go make a brew"
72.0%

activation notifications

"also having not adjusted any settings and previously recieving activation notifications despite movement infront of the camera was failing to detect anything"
71.9%

routine battery

"when you can't get it to announce that motion detected and run a routine battery will never last week let alone 2 yearsthis claims that it works with alexa but it doesn't say that it's limited function routines are very difficult to get working triggers impossible ifttt helps with g00gle home amazon edited this review!"
71.9%

temp drops

"i believe they've been manufactured in humid conditions and fog when the internal temp drops"
71.8%

advisor couldnt

"he can do to help the third advisor couldnt be less interested or helpful if he tried telling me to return them this isnt helpful or convenient ive been without the front camera for 3 days now we bought these after being burgled a few months ago safe to say im not happy in the slightest and ive"
71.7%

slower connection

"i would like it to automatically connect to my original ssid even if it is a slower connection"
71.7%

cold callers

"i am so fed up with going to the door and finding sales people knocking even though i have a sign saying no cold callers"
71.6%

massive pain

"i can manually enable them and disable them but that's a massive pain in the ass"
71.6%

design flaw

"fundamental design flaw as it’s too easy to steal"
71.6%

clunky at best

"works ok indoors when initially testing out the camera albeit the app is very un user friendly and live feed is very clunky at best like the old days of trying to watch a video over dial up broadband"
71.5%

unresolved issues

"i still have some unresolved issues with the camera"
71.4%

heart broken

"i have sky tv the connection to router is through a sky hub maybe this is the reason but i am heart broken and very frustrated"
71.2%

junk for money

"junk for money"
71.2%

giving false

"you can section of certain parts of the field of view of the camera to minimise trees & bushes moving around in the wind giving false alerts"
70.8%

dead zones

"but this can be helped by being able to set up dead zones in the settings"
70.7%

ignore part

"they often don’t work and the camera fires even though it’s set to ignore part i’ve updated the photo in app too "
70.7%

very inconsistent

"and they are very inconsistent and have a lot of failed errors the night vision isn’t amazing quite burred you can make out shapes but nothing clear"
70.3%

another problem

"another problem by the way is getting the back of the cameras and almost impossible task i know they have to be waterproof but it is a ridiculous task involving a lot of frustration and asking other people to try"
70.2%

turned down

"not many false alarms sensitivity can be turned down during windy weather and areas of the frame can be ignored so it doesn't pick up buses seen over the back gate "
70.1%

some big issues

"overall i'd recommend you buy this product however there are some big issues that may stop you"
70.1%

theft ironic

"it has no secure mount and is a clip on so would have concerns of theft ironic i know so i have purchased third party secure cradle that screws together"
70.0%

very intermittent

"the "advanced zoning" doesn't work or is very intermittent on some of the xt2 cameras"
69.7%

drilled holes

"very easy to install all it takes are a couple of drilled holes and that's it"
69.7%

weak signal

"if you have got weak signal near your camera i would recommend you get a tp link powerline wifi extender available on amazon on the positive side: the camera runs on two batteries that are included these are meant to last for two years i haven't had it for long enough to comment on this the camera comes with a bracket and screws included"
69.3%

biggest problem

"motion detection this is the biggest problem of all"
69.2%

biggest downside

"now the biggest downside to this system: the night vision!"
69.2%

does not work

"i need a replacement for this camera it has no and does not work"
69.1%

random issues

"random issues with connection and camera stops recording have to reset the box then"
69.1%

poorly executed

"just no excuse poorly executed"
69.1%

massive delay

"massive delay in showing you the image when you get a notification or just want to view"
69.1%

your stuffs

"wake up the next day your stuffs gone but at least you’ve got a video of some masked thieves stealing your stuff"
69.0%

live stream

"further to this when i brought the camera's inside next to the sync module they do work however the live stream lag is extremely poor and hit and miss if it loads at all"
68.8%

stars only

"as is 4 stars only and the price is the saving grace in comparison to other systems on the market"
68.8%

having issues

"they can log into and adjust your system if you are having issues so maintenance is automatic with regular software updates which self install"
68.8%

irritating though

"most irritating though was because app kept crashing the number of logins in a session is apparently quickly hit and access cannot continue since user is locked out for an hour for security"
68.7%

going issue

"upon looking on the blink community forum it seems like an on going issue that has yet to be fixed"
68.7%

cheap webcam

"quality is ok but it's a rip off unless it can trigger events might as well put a cheap webcam in a plastic bag"
68.7%

lasted around 2 months

"i get over 50 alerts per day busy road and battery lasted around 2 months"
68.7%

regret buying them

"i regret buying them"
68.7%

slow to connect

"the android app is easy to use but a bit slow to connect"
68.7%

been a fluke

"i set mine up checked the live feed once then found out that it must have been a fluke because it didn’t work once fitted"
68.6%

zero cables

"its massive selling point is the fact the cameras have zero cables!"
68.6%

return window

"i'm going to look into my legal rights as not fit for purpose but past amazons return window"
68.5%

hard wiring

"if amazon were to make this camera with the option of hard wiring with both power mains and internet cables this camera would sell like hotcakes"
68.5%

would be useless

"i would like to see the ability to connect these to more than one network or ssid as i use a wifi repeater if the repeater goes down for some reason the camera connected to the repeater would be useless"
68.5%

will simply

"okay there are accessories that enable you to enclose the camera in other colours but many will not think of this and will simply not buy the camera as it's black?"
68.5%

poor signal

"i tried moving the sync module to 3 different positions but nothing changed still a poor signal"
68.4%

dangerous characters

"your lazy programmers can't learn how to escape dangerous characters welcome to the 20th century"
68.4%

30day warranty

"this proved to me that this product can’t be good if can only offer a 30day warranty"
68.4%

another sync module

"blink support advised i needed another sync module which is not available at that time nor do they have any eta"
68.3%

faulty return policy

"another surprising and disappointing factor is when i’d contacted amazon in this and asked for them to be replaced they have declined and can only offer a 30 day faulty return policy!"
68.3%

battery life unknown

"battery life unknown at the moment but the claims are 2 years the app is super simple and useful too as it allows all settings to be done from anywhere any time"
68.1%

must be broken

"i’m returning mine as they must be broken"
68.0%

waste time

"to make things worse technical support makes you waste time when contacting them with the usual "try to move the camera" "try to change batteries" "try restarting it" etc"
67.9%

stopped working

"by the 8th of november it has stopped working"
67.8%

lowest possible settings

"at lowest possible settings it lags terribly even with a high end router and high speed broadband"
67.6%

more holes

"more annoyingly in trying to find a suitable location to refit the camera that was meritful in terms of camera angle but also would actually connect to the sync module i held the camera at various points around the walls outside my house to see whether it connected to the sync module and it seemed ok in a couple of spots so i picked one and drilled more holes and fitted it to the wall for a second time"
67.4%

just no excuse

"just no excuse poorly executed"
67.2%

useless most of the time

"at night the infrared image is useless most of the time"
67.1%

recognise faces

"i installed outside under the roof to monitor the access back to the garden a part some silly problems with the motion sensor due to the smokes of the boiler i installed it too close my fault it works perfectly: hd video in day night vision that allows to recognise faces but it takes a lot of power of course decent audio quality in night vision it crackles on ios but not android in my case the time lapse to receive the notification is 10sec tested at home and at work using mobile 4g network"
67.1%

viewing live footage

"i was quite excited to try out this camera but was disappointed by the lag time its nuts upto 7 seconds lag viewing live footage"
67.1%

lacks a schedule to

"currently the app lacks a schedule to arm or disarm the system"
67.1%

exclusion areas areas

"postman deliveries cars on and off driveway however it can still pick up headlights at night within the self set exclusion areas areas set within phone software so position and direct the lens carefully to avoid false triggers as this can deplete the battery life max life approx 2 years "
67.1%

rushed out in beta form

"its seems to me like the product has been rushed out in beta form and is not yet fit for purpose"
67.0%

unable to recomment

"unfortunately i'm unable to recomment this product the basics here is it needs to be reliable enough to leave and bring up footage when needed not constantly check its connected"
67.0%

faulty camera

"must be a faulty camera xt2 the other 2 x xt cameras are working very well indeed no problems at all"
67.0%

dire customer service

"appalling product and dire customer service"
66.9%

unacceptable delay

"there is an unacceptable delay between the camera picking up moment and the image appearing on your phone or tablet"
66.9%

remove the batteries

"the only way to turn it off is to remove the batteries"
66.8%

disabled grid

"other times it picks up motion in the disabled grid"
66.8%

more annoyingly

"more annoyingly in trying to find a suitable location to refit the camera that was meritful in terms of camera angle but also would actually connect to the sync module i held the camera at various points around the walls outside my house to see whether it connected to the sync module and it seemed ok in a couple of spots so i picked one and drilled more holes and fitted it to the wall for a second time"
66.8%

false picture

"do not believe the slick adverts for this unit as they paint a false picture they are obviously primed with knowing someone is at the door etc"
66.7%

waste of money

"waste of money and i regret resent buying"
66.7%

lichen windows

"my biggest issue was the night vision when there was any other light from lichen windows or the ir light on a different security camera"
66.6%

miss the initial stages

"on tripped recordings they all miss the initial stages with the recorded footage only capturing the final moments such as the ‘intruder’ walking away"
66.5%

removed so easily

"could do with a locking screw to stop it being removed so easily"
66.5%

utter crap

"but the supplied mounting is utter crap"
66.5%

fail to connect

"works with echo devices but you need a fast upload and download speed for this to work else alexa will fail to connect"
66.5%

sales listing

"ironically a picture on the amazon sales listing which i saw before purchase shows the camera mounted at an entrance door which is in a reachable position"
66.4%

manufacturing problem

"i think blink know there's a manufacturing problem with the xt2s and are going through delay tactics"
66.3%

grossley underdeveloped

"but its grossley underdeveloped lot more work needed to make this a "market leader""
66.3%

blow them of the brackets

"the camera brackets are a bit flimsy and i am worried that the next gale will blow them of the brackets"
66.2%

become unusable

"g frosty morning the images become unusable because of condensation!"
66.1%

sending it back

"i wish i had done this broom handle test to begin with as it took three attempts screwing this one camera into brick to find a spot that worked which was a real pain and to be honest i was close to sacking it all off and sending it back for a refund after it didn’t work the second time"
66.0%
...

only gripe in both products

"the only gripe i can think of is the thickness off the camera connections especially the internet one"
74.9%

major issue in both products

"using ethernet wired connection was not a major issue"
74.8%

more expensive in both products

"once up the camera is easy to set up with the downloadable app qr code supplied and the images are as good as i have seen on some more expensive cameras"
74.8%

error message in both products

"i put an sd card into it which it quickly used the memory on you should be able to clear the card from the app but that doesn’t seem to work it gives an error message every time"
74.6%

slight issue in both products

"slight issue with the large network cable as i had to drill a very large hole to get this mounted to the wall so that no cables were showing"
74.6%

only problem in both products

"the only problem i had was that i had to position the camera very close to the router as the camera kept dropping out even though the wifi signal showed 57% and that this was a good signal"
74.5%

very expensive in both products

"cloud storage lasts for a 14 day trial then it is a very expensive subscription per camera"
74.3%

false triggers in both products

"i have positioned my camera to cover my front garden so i don't want false triggers from the road outside it was very simple to disable the image zones where i don't want a notification then the sensitivity was adjusted with a simple slider"
73.4%

false alarms in both products

"when it's sunny and cloud cover comes across again it false alarms"
73.4%

built in speaker in both products

"having a built in speaker on the camera is just a bit of fun so far"
73.3%

only negative in both products

"my only negative is that it is quite big and obvious on the front of the house"
72.3%

further issues in both products

"only minor issue found so far is that one sd card of two wouldn't 'mount' meaning it required manually reformatting on my pc but was soon sorted and have had no further issues with it"
72.2%

brick walls in both products

"i do understand that expecting the wifi to go through two outdoor brick walls is a big ask"
71.5%

connection issues in both products

"i have been a long time user of another brand of wifi camera but kept having connection issues so i though i would give netvue a go prompted by other reviews and there very competitive price"
71.1%

power cable in both products

"i took another reviewers suggestion of putting all of the wires in a junction box outside as the cables are too bulky as a group to easily put through the wall so i just put the power cable through"
69.6%

waste your money in both products

"feel free to waste your money you really would be better getting a wired unit with a centrally controlled hard drive all at home as that will run for years with no issues"
68.1%

cheap camera in both products

"by comparison the cheap camera that i replaced kept buffering and losing connection constantly"
57.6%

very disappointed in both products

"i am just very disappointed i cannot return the other camera or even request a refund as i have no power adapter to set up the second camera which is now left redundant"
54.8%

complete waste

"the motion detection on the camera is a complete waste of time and will just alert you every couple of minutes even when there is absolutely nothing there so i had this disabled the whole time i owned the camera which is a really big disadvantage!"
99.9%

total darkness

"i don't know how it would work in total darkness but for me it's fine"
99.6%

crap routers

"the people with wifi issues either don't know what they are doing or have crap routers"
99.4%

incredibly frustrating

"it’s just incredibly frustrating"
98.5%

time delay

"there is a time delay when watching on my phone but that is to be expected with all devices of this type"
96.4%

will be buying

"as soon as they do this i will be buying!"
96.2%

record continuous

"you would either have to get a memory card to record continuous but then in the event of it being stolen you have list all the footage or pay £8 a month for 24 7 recording to the cloud"
92.5%

connection is so terrible

"the camera itself isn't bad by any means and especially for £40 however the biggest fault i have with it is the connection and even though i have a wifi extender literally less than 4 metres away from the camera really the connection is still garbage half the time it says the camera isn't on which is rubbish because i know it's on it's just the connection is so terrible"
89.8%

every drop

"i still need to play with the settings much more to get it all right as i am getting alerts for every drop of rain that falls at the moment and that’s on the lowest sensitivity setting"
89.8%

tideious and frustrating

"i like that you can add a micro sd card in and it will record everything for you but setting these up can be tideious and frustrating"
89.5%

lengthy and unsuccessful

"after lengthy and unsuccessful attempts to contact the company direct located in china with no apparent uk agent i was informed robotically via e mail chat that it only worked at 2"
89.5%

storage issue

"the only reason i give this 4 stars is because of the storage issue with multiple devices not being available"
74.9%

storage issues

"but it is not designed to be a high end 8 mega pixel camera with all the transmission and storage issues that you would come up against"
74.9%

only issue

"initial setup is a little complicated but if you follow the instructions carefully then it works the only issue being that the cameras need a 2"
74.9%

fall apart

"the camera body is ok mostly plastic so will either fall apart or last until the next millennium"
74.9%

made cheaply

"so we have power it's a standard dc connector and massive extension cables are cheaply available through amazon lan with an indicator led built in again a 25m run is easily purchased but even longer can be made cheaply and thirdly a weatherproof wifi reset button: i default away from wifi but recognise the brilliant innovation this option is just try getting up a ladder and removing the access plate to locate a tiny black button inside the body of the unit "
74.9%

fault this

"honestly can't fault this especially as we got it when it was on offer"
74.8%

picture freezing

"i got so fed up with various things going wrong such as the picture freezing that i thought i’ll sort it out tomorrow"
74.8%

user error

"i had issues setting up wifi connection but it turned out to be user error my end"
74.8%

main gripe

"setting up the wifi so as to use without the rj45 cable was my main gripe"
74.8%

break inns

"months on still regular problems when it should just work it's unreliable bottom line in a product where reliability is critical we had an issue with car break inns and low and behold despite paying for the 24 7 service"
74.8%

annual fees

"seems good value for money but the costs to subscribe to cloud services are not clear at the outset so i guess the low product price is balanced with the annual fees to subscribe"
74.8%

or 4 adjacent holes

"not everybody realises you can make 3 or 4 adjacent holes to create a larger one it leaves me thankful that we share a world with folk like that because it means i still have a job"
74.8%

would be rubbish

"i thought the picture quality would be rubbish but it's really not"
74.8%

awful feeling

"get the awful feeling that its spying on us"
74.8%

didnt work

"had this arrive today after looking around alot i found this on offer with an added amazon discount code it didnt work out to be cheapest but looked to be best value anyway when it arrived i opened it up and theres everything you need besides a drill and screwdriver to fit it actually included the corrected masonry drill bit for the plugs anyway about 10mins later it was installed setting up was very simple"
74.7%

loud noises

"even though i set it up with just one square area of motion detection it still picks up loud noises when cars go past"
74.7%

lose connection sometimes

"and some cameras do lose connection sometimes"
74.7%

left redundant

"i am just very disappointed i cannot return the other camera or even request a refund as i have no power adapter to set up the second camera which is now left redundant"
74.7%

annoying wires

"the camera is ultimately a wi fi camera but there are three annoying wires which you can't easily hide"
74.7%

your unsure

"there are video tutorials if your unsure as you setup"
74.6%

screw heads

"this made installation harder than need be as the screw heads are so soft they stripped immediately"
74.5%

several problems

"i have had several problems since and sadly they were all caused by me!"
74.4%

becomes expensive

"it becomes expensive at $70 per year per camera"
74.2%

camera isnt

"obviously the only way you know the camera isnt connected to tour router is when you open the netvue app"
74.2%

unfortunately only

"the instructions which come with it are easy to follow but unfortunately only tell you about installing it & nothing about using it but i found this information on the web"
74.1%

minor issue

"only minor issue found so far is that one sd card of two wouldn't 'mount' meaning it required manually reformatting on my pc but was soon sorted and have had no further issues with it"
74.0%

particularly awkward

"we have a particularly awkward outdoor view and cannot see the gate or visitors without going outdoors and round the corner so i decided to be brave and try an outdoor camera although it did seem a bit sci fi and hi tech for our rather basic household"
73.9%

only let down

"only let down is the motion detection it doesn't pick my 6ft frame up but does trigger with flies"
73.8%

long painful

"it takes a lot to impress me and get a security device put into my smart home and this camera has ended a long painful search"
73.7%

busy electrician

"i’ve only just found a busy electrician to fit my camera"
73.7%

some trouble

"i had some trouble connecting these cameras to my wi fi at 1st"
73.7%

further problems

"so we had a spate of tyre damages to cars outside the house so decided to get a good quality night vision camera to use as a deterrent to further problems"
73.4%

false alerts

"so unless you mount the camera under an overhang which shelters the camera from rain or snow then you are going to get a lot of false alerts"
73.4%

major problem

"i've got a major problem trying to figure out how to house these cables"
73.4%

constant problems

"easy enough to install but i’ve had constant problems with the cameras stopping functioning when the cards fills up you get no alert this has happened even though it’s supposed to reformat automatically"
73.3%

free trial

"we also pay around £1 a month so we continue to receive video recorded notifications after the free trial ends a tiny amount for piece of mind "
72.7%

first issue

"this is the first issue"
72.6%

never gets

"the device is up to date and never gets unplugged"
72.5%

slight negative

"one slight negative is that the mounting screws provided were of a very poor quality"
72.5%

disgusting support

"disgusting support!"
72.5%

better features but

"downsides motion detection sensitivity in app is not great app could have better features but not the worst either no option to view on laptop pc the drill bit that came with it was really poor quality that broke in less then 10 seconds of using"
72.2%

false motion detections

"you tighten up some grub screws after adjustment which holds the camera rock solid so there are no false motion detections due to camera wobble "
72.0%

returned damaged item

"looks like i was given a returned damaged item"
71.4%

babies nursery

"this is my second netvue product after purchasing an indoor camera for our babies nursery and this product is just as if not more impressive"
70.6%

echo comared

"there is a delay in the live view on the echo comared to the app on galaxy note"
70.5%

dubious people

"as there have been a few dubious people around decided on this vigil camera to keep a check out"
70.2%

detection issue

"the motion detection issue is now with their research team and i am confident that they will come up with a solution to the sensitivity issue very quickly"
69.8%

spoke out from

"our postman had a right scare when we suddenly spoke out from it"
69.7%

more defined

"i wish the motion detection had daily settings for when its active and a greater number of squares to get a more defined area"
69.6%

little adva

"after a while i worked out that the wireless mesh network in my house was a little adva ced for the wifi card in the camera"
69.1%

more bothersome

"the second and more bothersome is that when i tried to access the sd files in my computer i figured that the video files are in a proprietary format!"
68.6%

small adjustments

"installation outdoors was pretty easy and took a few small adjustments to get the perfect picture"
68.2%

woefully short

"firstly the power wire is woefully short limiting placement unless you add in extension cables"
68.0%

against brick

"everything needed seems to be in the box even down to a masonary drill if you were mounting against brick"
67.9%

unwelcome visitors

"i bought 2 of these cameras for my mum as she has had some unwelcome visitors looking around her property recently needless to say she hasn't received any problems since!"
67.7%

unwanted visitors

"camera feels sturdy and solid has a built in mic to capture sound and also a speaker so you could even scare off unwanted visitors by talking into the app!"
67.4%

unless i missed something

"i would suggest that you carry most of step 4 with the included parts to weatherproof the ethernet connector unless i missed something "
67.2%

less satisfactory

"it was equally easy to pair it with alexa but the results are less satisfactory"
67.0%

aerial flops

"my only quibble is that the aerial joint is not sufficiently stiff and the aerial flops around rather than standing upright"
66.9%

high and cant

"sound from the camera speaker is also good but useless for me as i have mounted the camera too high and cant hear it from the floor"
66.8%

small drill hole

"installation to its location was easy and i only needed to use a small drill hole to feed the supplied power cable into an outdoor cable box where the power connection together with wifi and ethernet cable not being used in wifi set up and the camera was easily fitted into location a template was provided but i didn't use this"
66.7%

blank error

"finally it’s not value for money and the motion detection when alerting gives a blank error which cannot be seen what it’s picked up"
66.6%

first week

"i will be buying a second camera 👍🏻 update after a few months: i left my previous review after the first week or so of having the camera after being bribed by netvue with 3 months free subscription to motion detection alerts"
66.3%

takes too long

"so this feature got turned off which is one of the reasons i wanted the camera it would notify that there was motion at my door i would ask alexa to show me the front door cam to see who it was then answer the door the whole process was to hit and miss and just takes too long by the time the video comes up the person would have left thinking there is nobody at home"
65.8%

only shortcoming

"the only shortcoming is the software which is limited for retrieving photos and videos from the sd card"
65.6%

no cables were showing

"slight issue with the large network cable as i had to drill a very large hole to get this mounted to the wall so that no cables were showing"
65.5%

not very good

"the night vision is not very good but you still see so for me it’s awesome"
65.4%

difficult installation

"having read previous reviews i thought very carefully about where i should position it to avoid a difficult installation"
65.4%

improving its software

"although a budget buy this camera does everything much more expensive cameras do and netvue appears responsive to customers in developing and improving its software"
65.3%

scratch as reviewed

"not normaly one who writes reviews however having purchased a number of alleged good external cameras all of which never came up to scratch as reviewed or advertised"
65.3%

waste your time

"don't waste your time"
65.3%

drop out of wifi

"the camera does drop out of wifi so at times i cant see it on my phone but i've found that this doesn't mean it isn't working as the camera continues to record to the sd card when not connected to wifi so nothing is missed"
65.2%

killed by the same

"it's younger sibling killed by the same update is going back on an amazon doa return"
65.1%

buying netvue

"will definitely be buying netvue again if we need more"
65.0%

been diabolical

"the support from netvue has recently been diabolical"
64.8%

indoors netvue

"i have used indoors netvue and they are great but i did not expect to be amazed by the quality of the outdoors one too"
64.8%

definitely lacking

"there’s also no web interface and support is definitely lacking"
64.8%

cheap price

"i have had cctv systems before that were far more expensive and was a little dubious about a camera at such a cheap price and thought that the quality would not be that good"
64.7%

that i replaced

"by comparison the cheap camera that i replaced kept buffering and losing connection constantly"
64.6%

slight delay

"two way communication does work but has slight delay inevitable i guess "
64.4%

real shame

"a real shame because when they first worked they were brilliant but they’ve clearly done something to the firmware that doesn’t play nice now"
64.4%

difficult to setup

"difficult to setup as it only works with 2"
64.4%

removed from software

"when this trial add on was removed from software the camera was completely disabled and had to return"
64.3%

supply requirements

"best of all the power supply requirements are the same as my analogue system so they literally took minutes to swap over"
64.2%

same or worse

"but saying that think it would be the same or worse on any other camera"
64.2%

hard drive failures

"the picture quality with these is much better and i actually see the fact they don't record to a central box as a bonus no more hard drive failures!"
64.2%

dubious about a camera

"i have had cctv systems before that were far more expensive and was a little dubious about a camera at such a cheap price and thought that the quality would not be that good"
63.7%

unable to upload

"i have had a few videos which were unable to upload"
63.6%

works it randomly

"and when it works it randomly goes into buffering every so often"
63.5%

complain too much

"have tried adjusting the sensitivity but can't get it to work properly but for a camera of this price i can't complain too much"
63.4%

card recording

"as i had already purchased a netvue wi fi doorbell and been very pleased with it buying the netvue vigil camera s was an obvious next step as they offer sd card recording and playback capability without needing to purchase cloud based storage it’s just a case of mounting the units out of easy reach"
63.3%

very low level

"the following reasons why i could not give it 5 stars: the speaker on the camera is very low level and even though it is installed just above head height you cannot be heard very clearly"
63.3%

damaging my property

"bought this camera as i have a bad neighbour next to me who keeps damaging my property"
63.2%

falls at the moment

"i still need to play with the settings much more to get it all right as i am getting alerts for every drop of rain that falls at the moment and that’s on the lowest sensitivity setting"
63.1%

gets too expensive

"one subscription should cover more cameras not just one otherwise it gets too expensive"
63.0%

opposite initially

"at night the problem was the opposite initially there was no motion detection as soon as it was dark although after a couple of weeks of emails back and forth to support they sent through new firmware which resolved this problem"
63.0%

really cant

"which it really shouldn't be to be honest if i could be bothered to take the camera down and send it back i would but i really cant as it was a bit of a task getting it up"
63.0%

cable enterance

"one thing i would like to say is that it would be nice to have a sealing plug if you are not going to hard wire the broadband side and just use the wifi as it leaves a tiny hole in the cable enterance"
62.8%

three smaller holes

"cover the camera in lens in something i taped a sock around it disconnect the end with the three mounting holes using the hex key provided hold the mount against the wall and drill three smaller holes with a 4mm drill bit take the mount away and open the holes up to fit the rawlplugs"
62.8%

outside instead

"you could fit a connection box outside instead of running cable through the wall"
62.5%

wont record

"motion sensor is temperamental wont record our car parking pretty large subject image but will record endless hours of rain"
61.9%

proprietary format

"the second and more bothersome is that when i tried to access the sd files in my computer i figured that the video files are in a proprietary format!"
61.9%

minimal affect

"if you need a cost effective way to monitor your home minimal affect on the wifi check from anywhere and has a speaker for interactions with home for example asking someone to leave a parcel somewhere safe "
61.9%

cable assembly

"installation is not straightforward because you will need a very large hole in wall to pass cable assembly through"
61.8%

not sufficiently stiff

"my only quibble is that the aerial joint is not sufficiently stiff and the aerial flops around rather than standing upright"
61.7%

minor issues

"two minor issues though"
61.4%

very unreliable

"i’ve recently bought several of these netvue 1080p outdoor security cameras as my existing ones from another maker were very unreliable and constantly dropped their wi fi connections"
61.3%

very poor quality

"one slight negative is that the mounting screws provided were of a very poor quality"
61.2%

useless ornament

"as soon as is possible this useless ornament will be taken down and replaced with something that actually works!"
61.2%

might get stolen

"i got the outdoor camera because a number of dogs have gone missing out of peoples gardens and as my house has a dirt road at the side i’m always nervous that one of my fur babies might get stolen"
60.8%

opened a chat

"already used footage for an incident i did have a problem where just after the time the firmware updates the camera failed i opened a chat at 8am and gave the problem to customer services who passed to technical services who by 9"
60.7%

tried live chat

"i tried live chat and didn't get anywhere"
60.4%

photo in this review

"have attached photo in this review"
60.4%

extremely hard

"night vision is as about as good as ir can get and at this price point it's extremely hard to beat"
59.8%

it's awful

"you have to download a small player they made i found in netvue forum and it's awful!"
59.3%

killed by the update

"killed by the update "
59.1%

card playback

"i'm using a 128gb micro sd card playback is of a high quality and unbroken"
59.0%

card formats

"i’m not using cloud but i am using the sd card the card formats while installed and for a couple of days i’m able to use the camera fine and watch back recordings but then i’m not able to view recordings unless i join cloud for a fee of course"
59.0%

occasional rambler

"for the price paid the camera is excellent i did look around and all the other camera's where more expensive so far i am very pleased the camera picture day or night is excellent and the piece of mind i get from seeing what is going on around my property is great i do live in a very remote area and therefore no traffic passes my house just the occasional rambler"
58.7%

open the holes

"cover the camera in lens in something i taped a sock around it disconnect the end with the three mounting holes using the hex key provided hold the mount against the wall and drill three smaller holes with a 4mm drill bit take the mount away and open the holes up to fit the rawlplugs"
58.6%

mount it too high

"only issue advice is so mount it too high as the spiders are always making webs on the camera and this also can trigger off motion alerts if u have this set up"
58.6%

only issue advice

"only issue advice is so mount it too high as the spiders are always making webs on the camera and this also can trigger off motion alerts if u have this set up"
58.4%

rubbish all the time

"it does work without the cloud subscription but motion detection is rubbish all the time"
58.2%

biggest fault

"the camera itself isn't bad by any means and especially for £40 however the biggest fault i have with it is the connection and even though i have a wifi extender literally less than 4 metres away from the camera really the connection is still garbage half the time it says the camera isn't on which is rubbish because i know it's on it's just the connection is so terrible"
58.1%

aerial joint

"my only quibble is that the aerial joint is not sufficiently stiff and the aerial flops around rather than standing upright"
58.0%

apparently all connected

"the unit showed a solid green light so apparently all connected but the app said the camera is offline"
57.6%

mega pixel camera

"but it is not designed to be a high end 8 mega pixel camera with all the transmission and storage issues that you would come up against"
56.9%

delay is so long

"but the delay is so long"
56.7%

fault this bullet

"cannot fault this bullet cam"
56.6%

dead original unit

"after a stream of emails to support i am now returning my dead original unit"
56.3%

hesitate to recommend

"for the price of this camera i would not hesitate to recommend it"
56.3%

trying to connect

"i guess most of the time the video comes up but sometimes it times out trying to connect"
56.2%

would not be that good

"i have had cctv systems before that were far more expensive and was a little dubious about a camera at such a cheap price and thought that the quality would not be that good"
56.0%

trial and error

"this really is just a case of trial and error and the app offers sensitivity adjustments so you can have it exactly as you want it"
56.0%

file corruption

"however there is no way to stop recording except by pulling out the power plug which seems a bit brutal the app should provide for this to prevent file corruption i did try disconnecting power the sd card seemed ok and successfully re mounted on restoring power"
55.9%

only quibble

"my only quibble it that the camera is not poe"
55.9%

record continously

"are equally good in many ways but don't record continously"
55.8%

does n't always

"also to subscribe to the motion data as the camera doesn't always get a photo of the trigger but will record it!"
55.8%

even no reply

"unfortunately even after 2 months i didn't receive the free 64gb sd card as mentioned in the package i received after claiming even no reply to my 2 emails"
55.3%

teething problems

"compact camera but as this model has an ethernet plug on it you have to drill at least a 12mm hole to get the cable through the wall lots of teething problems but the online chat is instant and they always seem to fix the issues but i'd rather it just ran seamlessly than have any pro lems like dropped signal etc or a tf card that has worked perfectly well in the camera for 2 weeks suddenly is no longer recognised"
55.2%

fire stick

"well i've now set it up outside and had tried it on wi fi and on internet cable also as i have a fire stick and alex's i did link it to there account on a good note it works well with the app on a good but bad point as i did not adjust my settings but turned on motion detection it was cool for the first"
55.1%

internet supplier issues

"i have unfortunately ended up with a lan connection to my router but as i said earlier this may be my internet supplier issues"
55.1%

does n't play nice

"a real shame because when they first worked they were brilliant but they’ve clearly done something to the firmware that doesn’t play nice now"
55.1%

power plug

"however there is no way to stop recording except by pulling out the power plug which seems a bit brutal the app should provide for this to prevent file corruption i did try disconnecting power the sd card seemed ok and successfully re mounted on restoring power"
55.0%

unreliable bottom line

"months on still regular problems when it should just work it's unreliable bottom line in a product where reliability is critical we had an issue with car break inns and low and behold despite paying for the 24 7 service"
54.9%

through smaller holes

"one criticism would be the leads should be detachable to get through smaller holes"
54.9%

4ghz not 5ghz

"4ghz not 5ghz"
54.9%

not adjust my settings

"well i've now set it up outside and had tried it on wi fi and on internet cable also as i have a fire stick and alex's i did link it to there account on a good note it works well with the app on a good but bad point as i did not adjust my settings but turned on motion detection it was cool for the first"
54.8%

with no progress

"every day i contact nevue to be told that their “engineers are working on a fix” but that’s been four days now with no progress so i’m sending these back for a refund"
54.8%

sd card not included

"an sd card not included is required to store images video including motion detection although a paid cloud service is available"
54.8%

sensitivity issue

"the motion detection issue is now with their research team and i am confident that they will come up with a solution to the sensitivity issue very quickly"
54.8%

user login

"but i went to my hubs user login on internet explorer and turned the 5g off so it could connect to the 2"
54.8%

n't take long

"had to go through the process twice but it didn’t take long"
54.7%

back in screw

"to get footage you need to get a ladder and climb the ladder to the camera unscrew it all to get to the memory card take the memory out put it into your pc get the footage you need then go back up the ladder put the memory card back in screw all the camera back together and as your doing all this your"
54.7%

no way to stop recording

"however there is no way to stop recording except by pulling out the power plug which seems a bit brutal the app should provide for this to prevent file corruption i did try disconnecting power the sd card seemed ok and successfully re mounted on restoring power"
54.7%

wrong for the price

"can't really go wrong for the price"
54.7%

few problems with

"i recently brought the homecam indoor secuirty cam from the same seller last month and had a few problems with it and these got resolved really well and rapidly because of this i decided to buy a new camera for the outside secuirty of my house"
54.7%

not work with iftt

"my only real criticism is that i would like more control over scheduling the motion detection and they do not work with iftt"
54.7%

would not brake the bank

"i was looking for a easy install camera for a while now that would not brake the bank and then my friend showed me the netvue he has i was shocked when he told me how much he payed and all the features the camera qualty is amzing with the movement notafication sent to your phone so you know where ever"
54.7%

no longer recognised

"compact camera but as this model has an ethernet plug on it you have to drill at least a 12mm hole to get the cable through the wall lots of teething problems but the online chat is instant and they always seem to fix the issues but i'd rather it just ran seamlessly than have any pro lems like dropped signal etc or a tf card that has worked perfectly well in the camera for 2 weeks suddenly is no longer recognised"
54.7%

bare this in mind

"you can view the cameras live without signing up to any storage or buying an sd card from the app but you wont be able to record the footage so bare this in mind"
54.7%

removed '' recently and

"i wanted this to monitor our back garden as we've had some items "removed" recently and i am delighted with how easy it was to setup and use"
54.7%

no battery back

"if the 12v power cord is cut then that's the end of your camera security as there is no battery back up"
54.7%

would not link

"when linking accounts to amazon it would return a load of code and would not link"
54.7%

being a victim of crime

"having being a victim of crime and searching the internet for a good but reasonably priced outdoor camera i can honesty say i am pleased with this product"
54.6%

have a bad neighbour

"bought this camera as i have a bad neighbour next to me who keeps damaging my property"
54.6%

tyre damages

"so we had a spate of tyre damages to cars outside the house so decided to get a good quality night vision camera to use as a deterrent to further problems"
54.6%

not like about

"what i did not like about it was the setup"
54.6%

not buy this camera

"but now the camera is pointless constantly showing off line constantly needing to format the sd card do not buy this camera!"
54.6%

long as your cameras

"so long as your cameras will be close to your router then it should be fine"
54.6%

away in another country

"i had some doing work in my garage while i was away in another country and i was able to view and speak clearly with the"
54.6%

faulty unit

"the camera whilst working was a fairly good product for the price paid the problem & the reason of the low rating is due to the customer support while the support for set up alone was good the issue with support for returning a faulty unit is a complete nightmare"
54.5%

have n't needed it

"no instructions with the camera at all but good website and it appears they have good customer service but i haven't needed it yet!"
54.5%

only slight frustration

"the only slight frustration is that there is large bunch of cables out of the camera body which are redundant if you are using as a wireless device"
54.4%

sceptical of the signal

"i was sceptical of the signal and thought i'd have issues with the wifi signal dropping out"
54.4%

stay connected

"no matter which ever way i tried it would just not stay connected"
54.4%

screws wall

"what i did find good that the camera came with all screws wall plugs a masonry drill bit and a hex key to adjust the direction of the camera"
54.4%

seems a bit brutal

"however there is no way to stop recording except by pulling out the power plug which seems a bit brutal the app should provide for this to prevent file corruption i did try disconnecting power the sd card seemed ok and successfully re mounted on restoring power"
54.4%

facebook it logged it

"only hicup is with the alexa app i could not get it to add the skill but when i logged in via netvue on the computer and logged in via a password password reset and not facebook it logged it in and now all working"
54.4%

no subscripton charge

"has motion sensor in the app to alert you of movement and captures a screenshot each time in the app no subscripton charge required for this "
54.3%

even more disappointing

"live view works fine which makes it even more disappointing"
54.3%

it's really

"i thought the picture quality would be rubbish but it's really not"
54.3%

seems a bit excessive

"not sure on cloud and motion upgrade costs as seems a bit excessive but haven’t looked in to this yet"
54.3%

before it is overwritten

"you can however scroll back in time and record for whatever period you want as long as you do it before it is overwritten"
54.2%

not comment on that

"i'm not using motion detection yet because i wanted this primarily to be able to see who is at the front door so i cannot comment on that"
54.2%

problem here

"whatever had blocked the camera reporting in was fixed by the reboot and the camera went live it was also a lot more responsive through the app so my router was the problem here"
54.2%

no marker for humans

"cloud service don’t work as described gives me 100+ notifications that my cat is running around but can’t detect no humans see pictures no marker for humans"
54.2%

warning on my iphone

"get in seconds a warning on my iphone and can see what is happening"
54.1%

expensive subscriptions

"good product and no need for expensive subscriptions either :"
54.1%

nobody at home

"so this feature got turned off which is one of the reasons i wanted the camera it would notify that there was motion at my door i would ask alexa to show me the front door cam to see who it was then answer the door the whole process was to hit and miss and just takes too long by the time the video comes up the person would have left thinking there is nobody at home"
54.0%

password reset

"only hicup is with the alexa app i could not get it to add the skill but when i logged in via netvue on the computer and logged in via a password password reset and not facebook it logged it in and now all working"
54.0%

weak wifi signal

"i don't need the ethernet option but would be useful to those with weak wifi signal great addition!"
54.0%

rubbish in my opinion

"without the costly addons the camera is rubbish in my opinion"
54.0%

while not subscribing

"u still get motion alerts while not subscribing"
53.9%

this is only 1080

"you can zoom into the image on te phone app but the resolution falls off pretty fast as this is only 1080"
53.9%

good not good

"not good not good at all"
53.8%

10 minutes long

"first problem: it seems that each video file is 10 minutes long but there are some space between them some seconds that don't get recorded at all"
53.7%

exactly as advertised

"i was delighted after i replaced a defective similar unit from another brand because this device behaved exactly as advertised"
53.7%

short demonstration video

"using the app each stage of the set up is clearly explained and supported by a short demonstration video"
53.7%

more difficult to install

"my only issue is the three cables hanging out of the back of it makes it a little more difficult to install"
53.7%

camera wobble

"you tighten up some grub screws after adjustment which holds the camera rock solid so there are no false motion detections due to camera wobble "
53.7%

the wrong place

"i really wanted it to film across my whole driveway but that's more down to me putting the camera in the wrong place"
53.7%

is dual banded

"connecting to router bt hub was a little frustrating but i expected that as bt is dual banded"
53.7%

problem persists

"it has been having trouble loading the live feed but i sure it is a blip and am going to contact customer support if the problem persists"
53.7%

been completely useless

"pretty easy to set up and worked well for a couple of weeks and then following a firmware update the cameras have been completely useless"
53.7%

could be better

"camera isn't perfect though and a few things could be better might even be the app and not the camera to be honest"
53.6%

made the mistake

"i made the mistake of cutting the network plug off to help feed the wire through thinking i wouldn't need it as i was using wireless"
53.5%

received no reply

"have tried contacting their customer service but received no reply so will try and get a refund somehow"
53.5%

minutes only

"actual time attaching camera and cables was minutes only"
53.4%

hear the birds

"easily hear the birds from back of the house"
53.4%

dropping off without

"as to the camera once initial issues sorted probably due wifi dropping off without me knowing it is excellent"
53.4%

no wires showing

"bit of a con showing the camera fitted flush against the wall with no wires showing"
53.3%

therefore i returned

"so therefore i returned it"
53.2%

n't often write reviews

"i don't often write reviews but i am quite impressed with this camera"
53.2%

no reson and picture

"i got this one for my back way as there have been some crimes in some other back ways so just like the fact its keeping a eye on my home while i go to work pros easy to set up and helpful app cons just can cut out some times for no reson and picture can be a bit hard to see sometimes but that could be times of the day would get other one for my front way aswell"
53.2%

fail on me recently

"i did have one fail on me recently after 6 months"
53.2%

large holes

"cons: large holes required for installation"
53.1%

4ghz wireless not a

"4ghz wireless not a 5"
53.1%

128gb cards no longer

"support says that 128gb cards no longer work"
53.1%

ethernet socket

"it is the ethernet socket that determins the size!"
52.8%

will never know

"quite why they didn't do this in the first place i will never know"
52.8%

with no buffering

"showing 97% signal in the app with no buffering"
52.7%

will not necessarily

"despite what anyone says it will not necessarily be easy to fit"
52.7%

difficult to connect

"4ghz if you don't do this it may be difficult to connect you can switch 5ghz back on after its connected"
52.7%

blocked '' area

"picked up car headlights even though in “blocked” area"
52.7%

that do n't have audio

"i've been searching a long time for home security camera's with two way audio to replace my outside ip camera's that don't have audio"
52.6%

solves this issue

"but cloud storage solves this issue"
52.5%

right scare

"our postman had a right scare when we suddenly spoke out from it"
52.4%

rely on pir lamp

"at night in ir in rainy day is prone to false positives detects rain drops or snow flakes practically useless so i switched off infra red and rely on pir lamp to detect motion outdoor"
52.4%

costly addons

"without the costly addons the camera is rubbish in my opinion"
52.3%

view anywhere

"you can view anywhere not just when you are on the same local network"
52.3%

have n't explored

"lots of choices in settings i haven't explored yet"
52.2%

approx # 75 cheaper

"this bullet style camera is approx £75 cheaper than my hikvision!"
52.1%

please do n't change

"please don’t change "
52.1%

could n't be easier

"set up on these cameras couldn't be easier"
52.0%

miss and certainly

"however using the camera to monitor outside motion is hit and miss and certainly not effective with the infra red camera as the light reflects off the windows at night"
52.0%

find nothing

"it is beyond frustrating especially when something has been stolen off your driveway which has happened this morning only to find nothing was recorded!"
51.8%

drilling the holes

"even a drill bit for drilling the holes for mounting the camera"
51.8%

netvue software

"another desireable feature of the netvue software is that it allows ‘sharing’ this enables me to share all the camera features with my wife and as such she also can manage the settings and receive notifications from the motion alarm"
51.8%

eyespy software

"i’d like to connect this to my own nas drive or eyespy software but ip address access is not allowed"
51.8%

eliminated the problem

"4ghz was better did have trouble connecting to a wifi extender did away with that so eliminated the problem"
51.8%

quite bulky wires

"the camera connection has 3 quite bulky wires which would need a really big hole to bring inside"
51.7%

small hole

"this means you only have to drill a small hole through the wall for the power cable and into the back of the junction box"
51.7%

more and more unreliable

"at first these seem great but as time wears on they become more and more unreliable"
51.7%

waste of time

"i thought the microphone and speaker were going to be a waste of time but i can clearly hear anyone talking at my front door"
51.6%

still was n't working

"as it wasn't connecting for me they sent a solution to get an update through but still wasn't working"
51.6%
...

Compare Pros

excellent product in both products

"excellent product which is extremely easy to setup and use"
100.0%

brilliant camera in both products

"brilliant camera i have mine in the front hallway watching the hallway and main door"
100.0%

works brilliantly in both products

"yes the nest cameras are pricey and the fact you have to pay extra for their cloud storage is hugely off putting but it works brilliantly "
100.0%

quite good in both products

"the motion sensor is quite good it triggered one camera and on play back i didn't see anything until i replayed the clip to spot a fly buzzing briefly in front of the camera!"
99.9%

excellent piece in both products

"its an excellent piece of kit"
99.9%

highly recommend in both products

"highly recommend"
99.6%

really good in both products

"honestly it's really good and have struggled to fault it so far although there are some anomalies which you'd think would have been looked at"
99.3%

nice piece in both products

"build quality is phenomenal they are a nice piece of kit"
98.8%

works perfectly in both products

"very discreet internet box interface which i have concealed in sofa side table and it works perfectly"
98.6%

been excellent in both products

"great little system that is easy to setup and install wifi connection with a virgin media homehub 3 has been excellent"
98.3%

excellent camera in both products

"overall it's an excellent camera for the price"
92.9%

camera is excellent in both products

"after a few hiccups my fault this camera is excellent and the wifi range is very good although the night vision isn’t great and the sound isn’t either but i wouldn’t expect it to be at this size and price!"
88.8%

great camera in both products

"a great camera that punches above its weight"
88.5%

works well in both products

"there is a two way talk function its a bit creepy but it works well and you can set the volume from the app you can set trigger zones where you don't want the camera to pick up movement from"
75.0%

great deal in both products

"get one i was sceptical but i am so glad i did and thanks to amazon it was a great deal"
75.0%

good price in both products

"* good price compared to other cameras"
75.0%

reasonably well in both products

"motion sensing works reasonably well day and night also"
75.0%

great price in both products

"great camera’s great price but no way a 2 year battery life unless of course you never use the camera"
75.0%

good points in both products

"in conclusion : good points : * very good clear picture especially night vision"
75.0%

very handy in both products

"a very handy feature"
75.0%

good position in both products

"we eventually found a good position for the camera that connected to the sync module properly"
75.0%

really easy in both products

"really really easy"
74.9%

good security in both products

"it is good security for our vechicles on the drive"
74.9%

cctv cameras in both products

"i've owned dozens of internet connected cctv cameras over the past 15 years from a wide range of manufacturers"
74.9%

indoor cameras in both products

"as you can see the burglar nicked both indoor cameras so i bought replacements and some secure mounts"
74.9%

great value in both products

"great value well made and comes with all you need including batteries in the box!"
74.9%

really well in both products

"they pick up motion really well and the image quality is excellent"
74.9%

outdoor cameras in both products

"i bought this camera to add to my two existing outdoor cameras and three existing indoor cameras"
74.9%

great security in both products

"great security and simple to use without the need to wire up your home"
74.9%

would happily in both products

"would happily recommend"
74.9%

easy installation in both products

"so if you want security that's low cost and easy installation this set up is perfect no monthly contract to worry about either as with a lot of systems out there"
74.8%

recommend these in both products

"i would recommend these based on them only catching motion snippets and not recording 24 7"
74.8%

looks great in both products

"i just bought a single xt2 looks great"
74.8%

picture quality in both products

"this is what the picture quality is like in complete darkness and it is even better in the daylight"
74.8%

outdoor camera in both products

"overall i am very pleased with my blink outdoor camera"
74.8%

very quick in both products

"they connected registered with a qr code scan and linked to my alexa very quick"
74.7%

absolutely brilliant

"the blink app is easy to install and all the cameras function on the same wi fi connection but have separate settings absolutely brilliant"
100.0%

absolutely love

"had it for a few weeks now and i absolutely love it"
100.0%

excellent tech people

"another call to their excellent tech people and sent a couple of videos"
100.0%

perfect motion detection

"however general usage takes some time to perfect motion detection has rarely works constantly changing sensitivity to try and pick up motion which then tells me battery life will be effected"
100.0%

fantastically well with

"works fantastically well with alexa and the iphone app gives almost live notifications if anything happens under it"
100.0%

absolutely excellent

"absolutely excellent product covers a wide area in front of my property and records every movement perfectly that comes in my gate"
99.9%

brilliant product

"is a brilliant product and makes me feel alot safer at home that extra protection"
99.9%

everything is amazing

"everything is amazing"
99.9%

excellent results

"it is what it is a battery operated cctv system that gives excellent results during the day but useless at night"
99.9%

absolutely fine

"wifi connection in our house is pretty low however these work absolutely fine"
99.7%

great little system

"great little system that is easy to setup and install wifi connection with a virgin media homehub 3 has been excellent"
99.7%

really informative

"before buying and to help with reviewing how to set up i watched a youtube video which was really informative"
99.7%

best thing

"this is literally the best thing i have purchased in forever!"
99.6%

extremely good

"for the money they are extremely good value and no wiring required!"
99.4%

quick most

"the motion alerts for me are quick most of the time live feed and sound is good"
99.2%

managing recordings

"otherwise really good picture quality and cloud storage makes managing recordings simple"
99.2%

quality good

"video quality good during the day and not bad at night"
99.0%

best footage

"the police were very impressed with the video quality saying it was some of the best footage they had seen from a home system"
98.9%

really sharp

"really sharp hd picture and clear at night"
98.8%

highly impressed

"i’ve not even accessed half of the functions yet and i’m already highly impressed"
98.8%

good wide angle

"they have a good wide angle of vision they are extremely compact the night vision is really good and they are really easy to operate from your mobile phone"
98.0%

good pic n sound

"good pic n sound haven't mounted so if u saving on £'s you can move around the house accordingly"
98.0%

extremely worth

"extremely worth every penny"
97.9%

worked a treat

"bit of a delay in telling you someone's at the door so you have to be quick talking to the delivery person who's about to throw your parcel in the hedge i'm not blaming them i'd do the same on their wages but it worked a treat from germany"
97.8%

superb purchase

"all in all a superb purchase"
97.2%

brilliant system

"in short brilliant system "
97.0%

pretty perfect

"if blink could sort this and allow for more distance between camera and router then this system would be pretty perfect"
96.4%

whole purpose

"the lower quality would probably take away the whole purpose of being able to capture the details such as face etc"
96.3%

best camera

"best camera i've found and will not be returning it"
96.0%

brilliant wireless

"these are brilliant wireless so no cables connected and had the first camera working in about 15 minutes great picture quality triggers well easy to adjust settings"
95.8%

full strength

"good product only negatives are no option to install sd card to sync module or camera to increase storage night vision isn’t as good as other systems but ok and the wi fi range isn’t great my camera is on the back gate about 15 meters from the wi fi router and only through one door yet i only ever get 1 2 out of 5 bars from the camera to wi fi when i’m in my car about 35 meters away i get full strength"
95.8%

visually permissible

"however the night vision although visually permissible needs an update as the image quality is neither consistent nor of equal quality to standard vision"
95.5%

amazing piece

"overall it is an amazing piece of kit for a very reasonable price"
95.0%

product is brilliant

"this product is brilliant"
94.4%

really successful

"after lots of moving the camera around to get the best wifi signal along with the plug in box it's now really successful & i'm loving it"
93.9%

these cameras are amazing

"wow these cameras are amazing"
93.1%

they are brilliant

"the only downside is battery life if you have a high traffic area and want long clips the batteries will only last about 3 months but apart from that they are brilliant"
93.1%

they are excellent

"would recommend and for the price they are excellent"
93.1%

overall satisfied

"overall satisfied but mount high enough to be out of easy reach"
92.6%

ifttt flawless

"having the ability to schedule when cameras are activated or not to the integration with ifttt flawless"
92.6%

good degree

"the setting available give a good degree of tweaking and the scheduled arm disarm is great"
92.4%

excellent in my view

"i must say for a fairly budget entry these cameras have a lot of useful features and the app is excellent in my view"
92.0%

very effective

"affordable easy to install and use no subscription and very effective"
91.8%

they are amazing

"i purchased the blink xt2 2 camera system a couple of weeks ago and must say that for the price they are amazing"
91.0%

painted porch

"camera is in a white painted porch looking out so i don't know if the bright foreground is fooling the night vision or what but the view beyond the porch is very poor ok in the daytime though"
90.5%

absolutely great

"i was very impressed how far away from the router these cameras are able to work easy to set up small and neat compared to others on the market no need to search through hours of footage it just gets the bit you need and saves it on amazon's server its handy when you are out of the home and a parcel comes i received a message on my phone then i told him where to put my parcel via the 2 way audio : absolutely great thanks amazon"
90.0%

really impressive

"this is really easy to set up and the quality of footage is really impressive especially for the price"
89.9%

superb and installation

"great product at a fair price the battery life is superb and installation process painless"
89.1%

exceptional cameras

"for the cost they are exceptional cameras"
88.9%

above issues

"i would never recommend this product because of the above issues i have with it"
88.9%

positive feedbacks

"was a little sceptical due to the less than positive feedbacks but so far i have nothing but praise for this!"
88.3%

great uplcose

"again wifi connection is key video quality the video quality is great uplcose and slightly pixilated anywhere past the back of my car which is about 8 10 meters but for me this is good for my set up and is close enough to see anyone breaking into my house or car"
88.0%

only available

"why is it only available in black?"
86.2%

extra protection

"is a brilliant product and makes me feel alot safer at home that extra protection"
75.0%

good addition

"good addition to blink range"
75.0%

success rate

"so success rate of 50%"
75.0%

nice addition

"not the fastest thing but it’s just a nice addition"
75.0%

fairly good

"fairly good motion detection even picks up a small spider that span a web over one of my cameras"
75.0%

logical choice

"they came with a hub which can plug into any usb charger source i'm fortunate as my home router has a usb socket and it was a logical choice to locate the hub near my router"
75.0%

decent performance

"i would rather have decent performance and replace the batteries more often"
75.0%

fairly quickly

"a bit different to what i'm accustom to but i learnt it fairly quickly"
75.0%

decent picture

"cameras are a half decent picture"
75.0%

seconds per clip

"the blink cameras are ok for what it is it dose the job giving you 60 seconds per clip free cloud storage"
75.0%

nice price

"nice price"
75.0%

works properly

"best thing to do is check the live feed activates every time you select it you’ll know that the system works properly if it comes on first time every time"
75.0%

decent package

"for the price its probably a decent package and the motion detection works well certainly better than live view"
75.0%

looks smart

"i’ve installed one camera indoor and it is small and looks smart"
75.0%

successful captures

"it is worthwhile monitoring and adjusting settings over a few days to reduce false triggers and ensure successful captures"
74.9%

spot light

"i have an external spot light and junction box so i am planning to install a weather proof socket next to the junction box and use a permanent power plug with micro usb lead available i have a six bedroom house with three rooms on the back the camera wifi reaches all where my wifi isn’t top bar tho makes up for it"
74.9%

fast delivery

"fast delivery"
74.9%

recommended height

"previous reviews have noted the included mounts as being a bit basic especially if mounted at the recommended height could be easily disabled nicked by unwanted visitors "
74.9%

reasonably high

"i have set a reasonably high sensitivity trigger level and masked off all but those areas of absolute interest"
74.9%

more stable

"the reasonably priced third party mounts for sale on amazon that i tried only protects the camera from wind sun and rain but are more stable and robust compared to the oem blink packaged mount"
74.9%

considerably longer

"this is a bit of a misnomer as it is most certainly *not* live the best i have observed so far is about three seconds which as everyone knows is considerably longer than the average delivery driver is prepared to wait"
74.9%

fair price

"great product at a fair price the battery life is superb and installation process painless"
74.9%

quality coverage

"i’m very pleased with the quality coverage and capacity"
74.9%

higher quality

"higher quality does reduce battery life"
74.9%

through mains

"should have the option to be powered through mains if you want"
74.9%

recommended these

"would and have recommended these"
74.9%

integrates nicely

"so that said it works well and integrates nicely into ifttt"
74.9%

outdoor ones

"i put the outdoor ones in water resistant housings ordered separately just for added protection"
74.8%

desired position

"setup was super easy and it was also easy to mount the camera in the desired position"
74.8%

years winner

"2 aa batteries last 2 years winner!"
74.8%

good lighting

"the night vision again is ok but if you have some good lighting in your garden it can be even better"
74.8%

nice design

"there are positives and negatives which i have detailed below: positives: nice design discreet reasonably easy to set up and install seem very weatherproof sharp daytime images"
74.7%

cctv traffic

"rule of thumb here is if you have fast internet and low cctv traffic this will most likely work without a problem other than that you can run into some issues : 6"
74.7%

good signal

"i tried a few places in the house to position the sync module to ensure that the furthest camera received a good signal"
74.7%

price battery

"all works reasonably well with good quality video capture apart from night vision which isn’t bad but hasn’t got the clarity for detailed identifications and the recording takes time to kick in positives: good price battery powered easy to set up good daytime capture not cloud storage charge"
74.7%

higher rating

"i would have given it a higher rating if i didn't have to reconnect every morning"
74.7%

strong signal

"all three receive a strong signal and work reliably"
74.7%

battery compartment

"you can turn this off but you will want to do that before you put the camera up as its a switch inside the camera's battery compartment "
74.6%

parked cars

"one camera is mounted over our front door covering part of our drive and parked cars"
74.6%

followed emails

"i contacted customer service about something and extremely helpful and followed emails to me to see if i was happy"
74.6%

much improved

"i purchased some after market ones on amazon and they are much improved"
74.6%

attractive cameras

"attractive cameras and very easy to set up"
74.6%

passing cars

"ie passing cars"
74.6%

some improvements

"obviously some improvements have been made to the app and camera firmware"
74.6%

mini speaker

"its as easy to set up as the previous cameras and still uses two small cell batteries however the audio pick up is far clearer than the older xt1 and this camera has the added benefit of two way audio so you can speak into your phone and the mini speaker on the camera blasts your voice out wherever you have the camera"
74.6%

useable quick

"fantastic to have free cloud storage but: there’s no useable quick set up guide"
74.6%

works fine

"the app works fine"
74.6%

recover deleted clips

"the company can and have the ability to recover deleted clips and are very professional to deal with"
74.5%

easy to navigate

"the instructions are clear but if you need more information the website is very easy to navigate"
74.5%

good picture

"picture quality daytime is very sharp night time is a good picture i was surprised"
74.5%

perfectly usable

"the included camera mounts are not in my opinion the best but are perfectly usable however i decided not to use them and purchased another mounting product found on amazon"
74.5%

really helpful

"after reading a really helpful review for this i made the purchase and have no regrets"
74.5%

very efficient

"this helps to make it a very efficient peice of kit "
74.5%

good cheaper

"so this one is a good cheaper deal"
74.5%

good enough

"the picture quality is great and more then good enough to pick out faces"
74.5%

cctv options

"i looked at all the cctv options and decided on blink based on the following 1"
74.5%

supports mains

"and considering fixing to mains as this supports mains through a phone charger type adaptor "
74.5%

price ease

"for price ease of use & sensible home security this is what i needed"
74.4%

with screws

"inside the box you get the camera itself a mount with screws included and the control unit which comes with a usb power cord and a mains adaptor"
74.4%

definitely recommended

"definitely recommended"
74.4%

excellent value

"for the money and ease of use and installation they provide excellent value"
74.4%

will probably

"the free cloud storage will probably be enough for a weekend's worth of clips if you have a medium busy area with people vehicles moving about that trigger the cameras"
74.4%

pretty good

"they have got these working pretty good now"
74.4%

very helpful

"daytime picture is great and options to filter movement detection very helpful"
74.4%

seems easy

"now that all three of my cameras are up and working it all seems good the app works well and setting them up to trigger and capture as you want seems easy"
74.4%

amazing value

"this product is an amazing value for money"
74.4%

good security system

"i work shifts so am often out at funny hours and wanted a good security system but didn't want to spend loads"
74.4%

sensitivity setting

"i can also now increase the video length should i want to and the sensitivity setting without worrying about battery drainage"
74.4%

very easily

"i already had two of the original xt cameras and was able to add this one very easily"
74.4%

funny hours

"i work shifts so am often out at funny hours and wanted a good security system but didn't want to spend loads"
74.4%

bright foreground

"camera is in a white painted porch looking out so i don't know if the bright foreground is fooling the night vision or what but the view beyond the porch is very poor ok in the daytime though"
74.4%

ideal place

"installing it in the ideal place is straightforward"
74.3%

very useful

"we purchased this to install outside our front door and have found the camera very useful"
74.3%

overall good

"overall good product i just wanted to post limitations"
74.3%

working well

"its all working well and the quality of picture is very good"
74.3%

added bonus

"free cloud storage is an added bonus"
74.3%

important consideration

"done to save battery life but an important consideration when you’re making your purchase"
74.3%

super easy

"setup was super easy and it was also easy to mount the camera in the desired position"
74.3%

fairly straightforward

"the camera itself is fine the set up is fairly straightforward and the picture quality is good not amazing but good"
74.3%

seems good

"now that all three of my cameras are up and working it all seems good the app works well and setting them up to trigger and capture as you want seems easy"
74.3%

good security cameras

"really really good security cameras i absolutely love mine and will be adding more soon"
74.3%

good effect

"i have a fairly large single storey house so have used all 5 cameras to good effect"
74.3%

good value

"would recommend this product if you want round the house security good value and simplicity"
74.3%

image quality

"they pick up motion really well and the image quality is excellent"
74.3%
...

works brilliant in both products

"the app works brilliant too with plenty of clear adjustments for motion dection etc the motion dection"
100.0%

works perfect in both products

"this camera is fulfilling my demands and works perfect"
100.0%

excellent product in both products

"excellent product in every way"
100.0%

brilliant camera in both products

"this is a brilliant camera we are very impressed as this is mounted on the relevant side of our house in the dormer attic window on the second floor g 1 2 for ease of connection"
100.0%

works brilliantly in both products

"if you have a micro sd card as well you can fit this and you can quickly rewind to any desired timestamp which works brilliantly"
100.0%

quite good in both products

"it took only a few minutes to set up on wifi the instructions are quite good"
99.9%

excellent piece in both products

"although not being poe is a bit of a pain on an outdoor camera this is an excellent piece of gear and fantastic value"
99.9%

highly recommend in both products

"would highly recommend"
99.6%

really good in both products

"the night vision is really good"
99.3%

nice piece in both products

"this product is a nice piece of kit"
98.8%

works perfectly in both products

"it works perfectly through the app on my phone"
98.6%

been excellent in both products

"so far the product has been excellent basically it does what is says on the tin"
98.3%

excellent camera in both products

"excellent camera that's perfect for the price and does the job amazingly"
92.9%

camera is excellent in both products

"for value this camera is excellent but the problem comes with power cables"
88.8%

great camera in both products

"great camera for the price"
88.5%

works well in both products

"the android app works well with my samsung a6 and allows us to enable disable motion controls and tune them and manage all of the recordings"
75.0%

great deal in both products

"a brilliant camera night and day views are a great deal better than my previous more expensive camera that this one replaced"
75.0%

good price in both products

"great product at a good price we are delighted and a little amazed with this piece of kit"
75.0%

reasonably well in both products

"all works reasonably well but the interface for checking recordings and events is slow"
75.0%

great price in both products

"you will be happy with this purchase great price too"
75.0%

good points in both products

"good points: installation: easy enough to do aids there to use which are very useful"
75.0%

very handy in both products

"as i am often away because of work i thought this would come in very handy"
75.0%

good position in both products

"all i had to do was download the app link the camera to my wifi and find a good position outside"
75.0%

really easy in both products

"setup is really easy using the app recommend using the qr code method as seems to work quicker and have had no issues with recording using the sd card"
74.9%

cctv cameras in both products

"i was a little worried about the set up as i've tried cctv cameras in the past and they were such a nuisance and ended up unused but this one is so incredibly easy!"
74.9%

indoor cameras in both products

"i bought 2 for outdoor use to compliment my indoor cameras"
74.9%

great value in both products

"overall well worth the money and definitely great value"
74.9%

really well in both products

"easy to set up and works really well with alexa on the tv"
74.9%

outdoor cameras in both products

"we now own three of the outdoor cameras from netvue for external security along with two indoor units which we use for dog monitoring"
74.9%

great security in both products

"i am adding to my first review with a photo of my new camera on the front of my house so pleased with both cameras great security for my property"
74.9%

would happily in both products

"i would happily buy again"
74.9%

easy installation in both products

"even the drill bit was supplied for easy installation"
74.8%

recommend these in both products

"all in all a great product for the low cost and i would highly recommend these to someone who doesn't want to have proper cctv cabling installed"
74.8%

looks great in both products

"the picture quality looks great too"
74.8%

picture quality in both products

"it has a brilliant picture quality far better than i imagined it would"
74.8%

very pleased

"it has only been installed 24 hours but so far i am very pleased"
100.0%

impressive both

"the picture quality is impressive both during day and night"
100.0%

best mounted

"best mounted high to avoid tampering also unless you have the cloud back up for storage as with only an sd card as back up any thief getting their hands on it will take the evidence with them!"
100.0%

absolutely superb

"absolutely superb camera especially for the price!"
100.0%

excellent both

"i have to say that i am very impressed the picture quality on all three cameras is excellent both in day and night modes"
100.0%

superb camera

"for the price this is a superb camera"
100.0%

superb night vision

"the image is superb especially for the price the fact they let you record locally to the camera via micro sd the two way audio wide field of view the fact i can ask alexa on my fire tablet or fire tv to show me the camera and it pops straight up superb night vision i am very excited to see how netvue develops the platform going forward here are some suggestions on how they might improve going forward"
100.0%

very detailed

"the live playback on the phone app is very detailed"
100.0%

really excellent

"which is downloaded onto iphone or ipad you get really excellent pictures both night and day of the area covered by the camera"
99.9%

unbelievably good

"easy to install the wired connection worked best for me the picture is unbelievably good the motion detection feature is excellent and can be adjusted for sensitivity and 'hot spot' areas very easily in the app"
99.9%

outstanding product

"outstanding product and outstanding service we've had this camera for 3months over now and the quality for relatively little money"
99.9%

absolutely fantastic

"absolutely fantastic camera!"
99.9%

installation process

"the installation process was straight forward and mainly intuitive connect to wifi then scan the device barcode in app video very helpful and professionally done and it's done!"
99.9%

superb sound quality

"excellent camera for the money good night vision superb sound quality works wifi or wired"
99.7%

outstanding service

"outstanding product and outstanding service we've had this camera for 3months over now and the quality for relatively little money"
99.6%

works fantastically

"first one arrived unfortunately with a damaged microphone however the technically team where brilliant and being unable to solve the issue have sent a replacement which works fantastically"
99.5%

excellent sound

"picture quality is excellent sound could be better but i bought them for the picture rather than the sound"
99.4%

most impressive

"most impressive"
99.3%

seems excellent

"thus value for money seems excellent"
99.2%

professionally done

"the installation process was straight forward and mainly intuitive connect to wifi then scan the device barcode in app video very helpful and professionally done and it's done!"
99.0%

moving traffic

"very handy for moving traffic if your camera is sighted near a road"
98.9%

impressive stuff

"impressive stuff for such a good value camera"
98.3%

real bargain

"it’s a real bargain"
98.2%

incredible piece

"this is an incredible piece of kit for the price"
97.7%

excellent picture

"for the price it's an excellent buy and gives both excellent picture and sound quality"
97.5%

terrific camera

"a terrific camera for the price"
97.3%

very impressive

"night vision is very impressive"
95.6%

both excellent

"the picture quality in both day light colour and night time b&w are both excellent at 1080p"
95.4%

also available

"especially as customer service is also available via email chat or by calling direct"
95.3%

fixing screws

"the camera was easy to mount with 3 fixing screws and the adjustable mount had enough degrees of freedom to enable me to point the camera exactly where i need coverage"
94.9%

wireless or wired

"you have the option of wireless or wired network connection which is really dependant on the strength of your wireless signal"
94.7%

well designed

"well designed and well made solid camera"
94.6%

sandisk extreem

"set it up hard wired internet connection with a sandisk extreem pro 128gb memory card"
94.0%

secure recordings

"zoom in and out with ease and of course its waterproof and it has a selection of contract monthly fees to suit you fantastic i’m rarely pleased with this camera and you can also use an micro sd card for secure recordings my best perches of the year"
93.9%

nice strong

"the quality of the camera is nice strong and durable"
93.7%

solid and so far reliable

"these cameras are solid and so far reliable i would highly recommend these to anyone"
93.1%

microphone is amazing

"but the microphone is amazing"
93.1%

really amazing

"i love the fact that you can have multiple users on the same camera and the night vision is really amazing which i was sceptical about but pleased to be proven wrong"
93.0%

picture is great

"picture is great!"
92.7%

product is amazing

"this product is amazing"
92.0%

a bargain well

"buy now to get a bargain well done netvue"
92.0%

excellent also

"the picture and sound are excellent also the motion detection feature is is accurate"
92.0%

excellent in all aspects

"the netvue cameras however are excellent in all aspects"
92.0%

tiny screws

"i had to go back up to my camera on the roof and remove the 2 absolutely tiny screws on the cover to get the sd card out then take it to my laptop to format it before reinstalling it and putting the cover on again trying not to drop the tiny screws"
91.9%

what i think is great

"also what i think is great is that you can talk over the camera"
91.7%

quallity is great

"for price the quallity is great"
91.7%

incredible better

"the motion detection is just incredible better than any of the other cameras i bought to try out"
91.6%

overall excellent camera

"overall excellent camera s whether you go for the bullet or the indoor"
91.1%

works a treat

"the night vision works a treat"
90.9%

very well designed

"the mobile app is very well designed and the installation was incredibly easy"
90.7%

went blurry

"i then changed my cctv system to a cloud based system which was ok until the cameras went blurry"
90.1%

integrate perfectly

"the setup has been simple the online response is quick and seem less and integrate perfectly with my echo spot"
89.8%

quality excellent

"the motion detection is very good the picture quality excellent and the cost of these cameras beats most others"
89.7%

superb customer service

"good software and superb customer service!"
89.2%

good recordings

"i am so impressed with this camera i have ordered another it is at a really cheap at the moment the picture is really clear and the night vision is superb using a sd card means you can look back easily with the app good recordings too"
88.8%

good conectivity

"good conectivity as my camerat is about 60ft away from my router mounted on my garage no issues so far !"
88.8%

love them well

"this is the second camera i have purchased i just love them well made easy to set up with lot's of options and settings works well with alexa and on your mobile phone"
88.6%

just brilliant

"it’s easy to use and easy to set up and the live chat is so helpful it’s just brilliant"
88.5%

absolute bargain

"absolute bargain if you ask me"
88.4%

really happy

"overall with this camera i am really happy with it and would recommend this to anyone!"
88.4%

excellent features and

"the picture quality is excellent features and app are easy to use and to date no problems"
88.3%

clearly and detailed

"night vision is great and shows things very clearly and detailed"
88.2%

brilliant interface

"the software set up is very simple due to a brilliant interface which walks you through everything in the most basic fashion"
88.0%

great addon

"this is a great addon for external security or even just knowing the amazon guy has been round!"
88.0%

camera is amazing

"this camera is amazing!"
87.8%

well its1080p

"ive had the netvue outdoor security camera for a few months now and it has been working really well its1080p waterproof wireless wifi bullet camera with ir night vision"
87.7%

good support

"very good picture quality and good support via the app"
75.0%

good coverage

"100 degree field of vision allows good coverage of the rear of house and driveway too"
75.0%

good guide

"i found the installation easy and straight forward with a good guide from the 'app' and packeted guide"
75.0%

good instructions

"easy to install good instructions and easy access on my phone with excellent resolution"
75.0%

fairly easy

"i found installation fairly easy using the qr generated code and its a good value peace of mind security solution"
75.0%

good security device

"this is a good security device"
75.0%

neat addition

"still a neat addition to a camera and it does fundamentally work!"
75.0%

adequate quality

"i bought this as a gift and was expecting a basic camera with adequate quality but i was greatly surprised"
75.0%

really useful

"this is a really useful feature"
75.0%

compatible products

"connection to wi fi was fairly straight forward via my android smartphone as was the addition of the device to my alexa compatible products"
75.0%

respectable price

"simply easy to set up easy to use great quality at a respectable price"
75.0%

shockingly good

"in summary an amazing camera for a shockingly good price"
75.0%

looks good

"looks good "
75.0%

great features

"here are the great features of this camera build quality instructions and ease of use excellent 1080p video picture quality so impressed it supports up to 64gb sd card!"
75.0%

great sense

"the best part of the whole process was in the ability to be able to talk through the camera to people passing i had our neighbour looking for me under the car we were in stitches for hours playing it back this might not be recommended practise as our neighbour has a great sense of humour not all neighbours do "
75.0%

nice picture

"sending camera back picture is great tried three sd cards all new ones and would not recognised one of them so as far as i'm concerned if you want to just look at a nice picture but if you need to record stay away from it's crap"
75.0%

cctv installation

"it is well made with a solid construction and now looks like a professional looking cctv installation at the property"
75.0%

great help

"the inclusion of a suitable allen key and masonry drill bit are a great help during installation"
75.0%

fairly responsive

"connects first time every time fairly responsive"
75.0%

seems well

"seems well made and if stands test of time then it will definitely represent good value"
75.0%

decent product

"generally a decent product"
74.9%

recommend enough

"can’t recommend enough"
74.9%

sturdy casing

"good quality camera well built in sturdy casing"
74.9%

easy instructions

"the camera is quite sturdy and robust with easy instructions to help with installation and set up was done in a short time"
74.9%

human detection

"there is also a human detection setting so it will only detect motion if believed to be human activity which works quite well"
74.9%

works easily

"the app was easy to set up and it works easily with alexa"
74.9%

monthly option

"monthly option is also available all in all this is definitely one of my better purchases and i wholeheartedly recommend this product"
74.9%

good reviews

"i did lots of research before buying this and they had good reviews"
74.9%

great communication

"arrived on time even during the lockdown great communication and tracking found the product very good quality and quite easy to set up night time vision in black & white is good quality and daytime is in great hd picture sometimes buffers but it’s probably my internet connection at fault if using with alexa would suggest it’s a password problem everything has to be the same but apart from that would recommend netvue "
74.9%

elite ultra

"i have put an 128gb sandisk elite ultra in it and formatted it so i guess it's working"
74.9%

indoor units

"we now own three of the outdoor cameras from netvue for external security along with two indoor units which we use for dog monitoring"
74.9%

quality instructions

"here are the great features of this camera build quality instructions and ease of use excellent 1080p video picture quality so impressed it supports up to 64gb sd card!"
74.9%

more relaxed

"makes me feel more relaxed knowing the house is save when i am away for business"
74.9%

indoor homecam

"i already own the netvue indoor homecam which i’m extremely happy with so i stuck with netvue for the outdoor security camera and i am glad i did as i am extremely happy with my purchase"
74.9%

indoor nest

"although my indoor nest was wider at 130 there isn’t too much difference i need to be concerned about"
74.9%

rapid notifications

"i'm extremely pleased with it and the quality of the photos as well it's rapid notifications"
74.9%

quite sturdy

"the camera is quite sturdy and robust with easy instructions to help with installation and set up was done in a short time"
74.9%

pretty useful

"once set up the camera initiates immediately when reattached to the power supply pretty useful when you are stuck up a ladder during installation"
74.8%

have liked

"the picture is really good quality for the price and the only thing i would have liked is a smaller cable as the size of the hole that needs to be drilled is quite large"
74.8%

first security camera

"this is the first security camera i have ever purchased and i really am very pleased with the one i chose"
74.8%

more reliable

"i have it set up with a memory card but you can also pay for cloud storage which i think would be better and more reliable"
74.8%

researched cctv

"i researched cctv for months before opting for netvue and i'm so glad i did"
74.8%

proof step

"on first opening the camera i was happy to find a fool proof step by step guide along with screws wall plugs mounting template and even the correct size drill bit simple things like this is a nice touch"
74.8%

light colour

"the picture quality in both day light colour and night time b&w are both excellent at 1080p"
74.8%

looks well

"easy to set up and looks well made"
74.8%

very quickly

"iam just updateing the review to say i have purchased another of these had problem with a firmware update but that was very quickly sorted by the excellent netvue customer service on line chat"
74.8%
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Compare Emotion analysis

Blink XT2 | Outdoor/Indoor Smart Security Camera with Cloud Storage,..

Positive tone

Neutral tone

Negative tone

8.0% 58.3% 33.7%
  neutral 58.3%
  worry 31.4%
  happiness 5.1%
  relief 2.1%
  sadness 2.1%
  love 0.4%
  fun 0.4%
  hate 0.2%
Netvue Outdoor Security Camera 1080P Waterproof Wireless WiFi Bullet..

Positive tone

Neutral tone

Negative tone

23.3% 47.2% 29.4%
  neutral 47.2%
  worry 27.8%
  happiness 18.2%
  relief 3.1%
  sadness 1.2%
  fun 1.0%
  love 1.0%
  hate 0.4%

* analysis performed using Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods, data for the analysis has been gathered from multiple publicly accessible sources.
** strength is the level of sentiment expressed in a sentence, phrase or keyword. It ranges from 0 to 100%
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last analysis update 2024-04-23