Arlo Pro 5 Security Camera Outdoor, 2K 8-Month* Battery Operated Home Outdoor Camera With Advanced Colour Night Vision, Light, Siren & Dual-Band WiFi, Arlo Secure Free Trial, 3 Cameras, White

This is a fantastic product. We were paying high maintenance charges for an old-fashioned burglar alarm which kept giving false alarms when spiders set off the detectors at night. But we were genuinely concerned whether the Arlo cameras would be an adequate replacement, whether we would be able to fit the Arlo cameras to external brick walls ourselves and whether they would work at all with a larger property with very slow and weak WiFi. We need not have worried as everything turned out to be easy and to work well. We love everything about this product especially the geofencing feature which arms all the cameras automatically when we move away from the property and we have set them to come on overnight too. We have the cameras set to detect people and animals and we love checking every morning to see what animals have been detected overnight, mostly foxes and cats in our area so far! One area where Arlo could still improve though is in giving more advice about how high to mount their cameras and how to point them as we had to learn this ourselves by trial and error. This was particularly the case with a camera at the front of the property where it was quite tricky to get it to detect movement in the front of the property but without it being triggered constantly by people or vehicles walking or moving on a public road nearby. We also have hard bricks which are difficult to drill into but it turned out the solution was to drill into the softer mortar between the bricks instead. Some simple videos to advise on such issues would have helped a lot. We also hope that Arlo keep maintaining these products on the market by providing security updates for many years into the future, they owe this to their customers. However we repeat that this is an amazing product and the relatively high initial cost is easily justified by the ease of diy installation, the amazing performance, the very good app and the relatively low monthly cost of monthly cloud storage and we are very happy with our Arlo doorbell and cameras.

Cameras themselves are decent pieces of kit with good battery life and video quality. Service however has steadily gone downhill over last few years. UX in the "new" app is clunky with no easy way to manage multiple clips. Geofencing doesn't seem to work reliably and the removal of custom modes makes camera control much less flexible. "Smart detection" is also poor, frequently misclassifying activity (e.g. mistaking my neighbour's cats as people) Even just activating devices is flakey and a particular pain on dual or tri-band networks (e.g. 2.4GHZ + 5GHZ + 6 GHZ). You have to disable all except the 2.4GHZ band until after activation despite claiming to support both 2.4/5GHZ bands. Final straw was the enforcement of "fair usage" even on the top tier price subscription plan with no option to pay for additional data. Support are unresponsive but send nagging emails to reduce recording activity (i.e. the entire point of security cameras), threatening to terminate your subscription whilst pushing you towards the so-called "Continuous Video Recording". This would be fine even with the significantly increased cost except it can only be used with mains powered cameras (meaning I can't use it for my outdoor cameras - app prevents you from even purchasing if it is not detected) and also does not the provide the desired functionality (recording on activity rather than continuously). Now wholesale replacing my 11 x Arlo 5 Pro cameras with Reolink for 1/4 the price, more/better features (e.g. PTZ, working AI detection, etc), much better app and no subscription costs due to local storage

i Have 5 of these camera's at my house, 3 are outside and the battery have a few months before needing charged, good quality of picture, i record all the movement's on a hard drive connected to the base station, great product.

So the hardware is good, and has a surprising range with a decent wifi router in the house. We're in quite a long extended bungalow, router is in the centre and I'm able to put on one each end of the house outside. At that distance, live streams are a bit laggy but the motion-activated captured video that gets uploaded is fine. I previously had the Eufy equivalent, which worked in these positions then one day after an update stopped working and suddenly had extremely short battery life. Batteries last months, though drains quicker when wind causes more activations. Charging is only a few hours though. The android app is OK but leaves a bit to be desired. If mobile signal is weak, it tends to say you're logged out or other irrelevant errors. They seem to have fixed some unpredictable navigation between videos or following notifications that used to be confusing. But downloading and sharing videos works easily.

Did quite a bit of research before I chose Arlo but very glad I did. Installed and set up easily, but be prepared to take time time with this (all similar systems need this time). Responsive customer services very helpful with queries. Image quality and operating features excellent. All my cameras are permanently connected to chargers and I would recommend this unless you use video zones to to isolate unwanted movement, eg bushes and trees. Also, you will not have to disarm cameras during the day if you are, for instance, working in a garden which is under camera surveillance. I use four cameras to record motion triggered clips and have purchased a fifth camera that, when installed, will record constantly to monitor vehicle movement in and out of the close we live in (neighbours very happy about this). Really pleased with this system.

This is the second Arlo Pro 5 Security Camera I've purchased in three months not because the first was broke, its because it's good. Very easy to set up, great picture quality and motion detection! I can't fault it! Very easy to install and the charge lasts for weeks and weeks. It's for peace of mind when I'm working or even in the house at night time. Highly recommended.

We had the first generation Arlo Essential Pro and Doorbell, we moved house and wanted to add, so bought these. Worse mistake ever, battery life rubbish, go offline and have to be at home to get back online. The app used to have a function to do this remotely. No warning to say battery is low, we have to charge ever few days, not like the original ones. Waste of money, don't bother.

The design is elegant and good looking. The app is easy to use. But it requires you must update the firmware before you can really use the cam and this the problem. You’ll never know the update status, there will not be and % of progress. It said will take up to 15 mins bit the cam will turn off after 5 mins and the update will be fail. I tried many times to reset and reinstall it and suddenly succeeded. Otherwise I will return it.