Blink’s new Mini Pan Tilt adds robotics to its compact home security camera

Blink’s giving its blocky Mini information camera a caller robot body. The caller Mini Pan Tilt is simply a precise virtually named mounting accessory that converts your existing Blink Mini camera from a stationary instrumentality into a controllable camera that lets you look astir the room.

Setup sounds similar it’ll beryllium casual for the Pan Tilt: you link the Mini camera to the mount, plug successful the Micro USB cord, and the camera present has 360-degree question from the Blink app. You tin adjacent instal it connected a tripod oregon partition equine that Blink sells separately — oregon you tin conscionable spot it connected a table.

You tin preorder the Mini Pan Tilt equine today connected Amazon for $29.99. There’s besides a bundle that gets you the equine arsenic good arsenic a Blink Mini camera if you don’t person 1 already for $59.99.

Alongside the caller mount, Blink is besides coming retired with a caller outdoor camera that uses Amazon’s AZ2 spot for section video processing that doesn’t request to nonstop footage to the cloud. The Blink Wired Floodlight Camera streams 1080p footage and has LED lights that tin get arsenic agleam arsenic 2,600 lumens. If you privation to support each footage local, you’ll request an further Sync Module 2 and a USB flash thrust to store it on.

This marks the archetypal clip Blink has released a wholly wired mentation of the floodlight camera; its different exemplary uses a battery-powered Blink camera mounted to a floodlight body. The caller floodlight camera volition beryllium disposable successful the coming months for $99.99.

The Pan Tilt, successful particular, is simply a invited add-on for the 2020 Mini camera and hopefully a motion the hardware volition beryllium supported longer than the now-discontinued Amazon Cloud Cam the Blink Mini replaced. But with Amazon owning some Blink and Ring and the 2 companies selling mostly redundant products, it’s pugnacious to accidental what Amazon’s adjacent determination volition be. Ring besides has a wired floodlight camera and conscionable released 2 caller spotlight cameras arsenic well.