Outdoor 4

You’ve got the wrong camera really. The outdoor 4 is built for long battery life so it’s always asleep until something triggers the passive infrared (PIR) sensor then it wakes up. These don’t have a long range. You need a Blink Mini 2 with outdoor cable (not expensive but extra) which uses pixel mat

For non-blink cameras (like Reolink cameras) they use complicated computer vision to work out what a 'person' (or pet, or car) looks like. They often do it in black and white and if you've screened any privacy areas off they're excluded too to save processing power. They may also only do this on a f

Absolutely not true about Blink saying batteries can last up to 2 years. I have new Outdoor4 and have replaced the batteries in one of them 2 times in a month. Support will say they are in a high traffic area, or in extreme weather conditions, but confirm that the settings are good.at this pace, I n