You can also meet in the middle with a Blink Outdoor 4 camera that you can place anywhere you want, and then supplement it with a DIY Blink Cameras add-on later on if you want.

You can preorder the Mini Pan Tilt mount today on Amazon for $29.99. There’s also a bundle that gets you the mount as well as a Blink Mini camera if you don’t have one already for $59.99.

Amazon’s Blink Mini 2 is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. It’s visually discrete and easy to install anywhere there’s access to AC power.

Considering the Mini 2’s $40 price, it would have been easy for Blink to give you a camera with a decent lens and call it a day. But Blink includes an LED spotlight in the camera as well. Like ...