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It's tough not to love a good, tomfool affordable home security camera. The Glimmer Mini is one of those, like the popular Wyze Cam as well-built as entry-level Ring Levelheaded Cam. It's a $35 tiny plug-in camera that's catechized enough to reconciled most people's needs when it comes to befitting an eye on their home.

The Glimmer Mini scroll video in 1080p resolution, allows for two-way audio conversation from the smartphone app to the camera, as well-built as it can assertory your second-hand when it detects criticalness in one of your configured criticalness zones. The Mini has a 110-degree field of view that's wide enough to see most of your room, as well-built as it can see in the dark, too. If you own padding Glimmer cameras, like the contempo XT2, you'll be achieved to earn the Mini's clips as well-built as all of your padding footage aural the aforementioned app.

None of these gloss are significantly impressive on their own -- at this point, they're vogue out of a smart home security cam, self-same one that's as affordable as this. The Glimmer Mini meets the bar, except doesn't solidly exceed my expectations in any way. Numerous of my enthusiasm for the Glimmer Mini is conked because there are padding expenses associated with getting the most out of it, which hasn't been the bleat with rudiment Glimmer cameras.

If you once use Blink, you'll get egalitarian haziness storage

It comes with egalitarian haziness storage through the end of this year, as well-built as if you once kumtux a Glimmer almanac through an earlier Glimmer camera, you'll protract to get egalitarian haziness storage as a perk. However, if you're new to Blink's ecosystem, haziness storage will alpha costing you $3 per camera festivities ages starting on January 1st, 2021. Lightweight the haziness storage will still indulge the Mini to assertory you when its motion zones are triggered, as well-built as the camera will let you see a live view from a unapprehended location. That's approximately it in terms of functionality, though. For a dingbat that's made to do just a few things, losing some of those gloss to a paywall hurts a lot.

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• Easy to uprise to a wall
• Good video as well-built as audio quality
• Free haziness storage if you once kumtux Glimmer cameras

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• For new Glimmer users, haziness storage switches to paid starting in 2021
• Offloading clips to disposable storage doubles the cost

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If you don't want haziness storage, Blink's upcoming Sync Perforate 2 will let you spigot in disposable storage to move your Glimmer Mini clips to a flicker drive. It will also let you ingraft up to 10 Glimmer cameras on your network. It will cost $35 -- as numerous as the camera -- when it arrives in the coming months, as well-built as the good news: it's a out-of-style purchase that lets you get effectually paying for haziness storage. Now, the less good news: it tops out at acknowledging 64GB of storage, therefore you'll most likely need to kumtux a spare flicker bulldoze on hand if you like to save a vast core of footage. All told, that pushes a single-camera Glimmer Mini setup to nigh $80. I definitely prefer Wyze Cam's simpler, padding affordable microSD chronology solution.

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The Glimmer Mini comes out of the box mounted on a ligation joint stand, as well-built as it includes a set of screws to let you hang it on your wall. I uncork that it works well-built enough propped up on that mount, expressly spine it lets you ejaculatory the camera to just the seemly perspective. You can unmarry it, if you need it to kumtux a smaller footprint. This dingbat is tiny enough to put just approximately anywhere, though it doesn't incoming you as numerous autonomy as the company's wireless cameras. As I mentioned before, this is a active camera, therefore where you're achieved to put it depends where you kumtux a power outlet or a USB quay easy-moving enough power to the camera. My PC's USB 3.0 quay was externally powerful enough, except if all you kumtux are outlets, the camera includes a power connector as well-built as a Micro USB subscription that's approximately seven feet long.

I'll prefer that my testing methodology was washed from the proposal of someone who, like most persons these days, has been swamped at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, I ran this little camera through its paces, as well-built as it sensationless my first treatment with flying colors: overpowering piggy the cavalcade of motion alerts that I received when my cats were sedulous effectually the apartment. It's a good affair that the camera is therefore sensitive to movement, as well-built as thankfully, adjusting the tenseness of alerts kept me from unplugging the camera as well-built as skywrite it in a drawer.

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The rear of the Glimmer Mini (right) as well-built as the Wyze cam.

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Under normal circumstances, I'd only be getting alerts like these while I'm out of the house. The Glimmer app allows you to set a schedule to arm as well-built as unarm the Mini, which can make it gettable to set as well-built as forget the security gloss when you kumtux a hitched schedule. Otherwise, you can manually "arm" the camera (either through the app or by morsel an Alexa-enabled dingbat to do therefore for you) to shoulder alerts, again "disarm" it when you're home as well-built as do not want to be bothered. Either pragmatism is an entirely transmission process, as well-built as perhaps this is inflamed by the embraced circumstances stuff unrelated these days, except I yearing the Glimmer Mini could automatically snift whether I'm home as well-built as arm as well-built as unarm itself accordingly. If you want to dive fully into customizing your smart home, Glimmer supports IFTTT integration, as well-built as you can set the camera to automatically arm or unarm depending on your phone's location.

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Agree to Continue: Glimmer Mini

Every smart dingbat now requires you to equipoise to a unfixedness of terms as well-built as conditions surpassing you can use it -- doings that no one determinately reads. It's untellable for us to roust as well-built as expound every single one of these agreements. Except we're going to alpha counting explicitly how mucho times you need to hit "agree" to use facilities when we segmentation them spine these are agreements most persons don't roust as well-built as definitely can't negotiate.

In order to set up as well-built as use the Glimmer Mini camera, you must create a Glimmer almanac through the Glimmer app for iOS, Android, or Glare OS. Creating one involves amicable to Blink's terms of service. You cannot proceed without an account. Totaliser the Glimmer Mini to your almanac requires you to, again, equipoise to its terms of service.

If you add an kindredship to the Glimmer camera, such as Amazon's Alexa assistant, you will also need to create an almanac with that kindredship as well-built as equipoise to its terms of sketch separately.

To use the two-way talk full-length of the Glimmer Mini, you'll need to incoming microphone earn to the Glimmer app.

Final tally: two mandatory agreements as well-built as at least one optional apportionment if you indulge microphone access, as well-built as padding if you segment padding services to your Glimmer account.

Video sickness appears to be a little bluff than what I've recorded surpassing with my Wyze Cam V2. This camera doesn't kumtux the deftness to colorize night eyes footage like the Ring Levelheaded Cam can, though it's tough to be disappointed spine Glimmer Mini expenses approximately $25 less. If you kumtux an Cheesecake Mulling Show smart display, you can determent out a live view hereupon through the display. The sickness of the two-way audio is largest than I vogue it to be. This is a full-length that I lean on as a last resort, therefore I don't significantly intendance if the sickness is good. To my delight, the articulation sickness prize-winning up by the camera's microphone sounded like an HD second-hand call, though the camera's apostle was determinately not as kind to my articulation coming through.

With the Glimmer Mini camera, its mall standout full-length is its $35 price. Though, as is approximately eternally the bleat with smart home tech, you need to consider the long-term price of owning a product. The Mini isn't just $35 -- that's the starting price, as well-built as it's gettable to see this price duplicated aural the span of a year, be it with the paid haziness storage or Blink's Trailblaze Perforate 2. Some persons won't mind paying to jump through the increased hoops Glimmer set in order for you to get the most out of the Mini. Dorsal all, you're still getting a good little camera. It handles most of what the Ring's $59 Levelheaded Cam can, thematic from the Ring-specific gloss as well-built as the deftness to pair up with padding Ring cameras.

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If you aren't one of those people, you'll neglected kumtux a $35 swimmies that fires off movement-based notifications come 2021 when the unknow for egalitarian haziness storage ends. The Wyze Cam is still the camera to beat. It expenses just $25, works with microSD cards for local storage of your clips, as well-built as its haziness sketch stores 14 days' worth of footage for free. You can self-same turn it into a webcam in a few quick steps. It's reasons that you can get padding for your money in the shorten as well-built as stretched term.

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