Arlo - Smart HD Baby Monitoring Camera with Audio, Night Vision, Ambient Sensors, Lullabies, and Night Light - White

I am now on my 2nd replacement camera. I started with the green ear version (didn't work) then they send me the gray ear version (Died in the middle of the night). Now the third is just as buggy as the rest. When it works, it works fine. Just as a benchmark, I get something in the range of 60mb download and 14 upload wifi speeds. According to tech support the camera only needs 1mb upload to function correctly. Small house with Netgear's Orbi mesh network. I get at least a 3 second lag in live streaming with the camera and to me this is manageable. Picture quality is very nice with great night vision. We use the built in white noise and the nightlight every night and this has proved valuable. HOWEVER, wether you're on the app or an internet browser it freezes constantly! Trying to start the live stream I have to refresh around 6 times for it to not be frozen on start up. A little annoying, ok, that is what is it... The major problem I have with this little rabbit is that when the camera freezes mid stream there is no notification, no warning, no blank screen, not even a loss of audio. It freezes and you will have no idea unless you're sitting a foot from the monitor trying to see the little guy/girl's chest moving up and down (through blankets). The audio streams normally so you have no idea the image you're seeing could be 10 minutes old unless they start crying or making noise without 'moving'. I've spoken to Netgear regarding this issue (that they are very aware of) and there is no answer. Just make an alert or make the screen go black! I don't like smear reviews but until they fix this issue I hope no one else has to wonder if they're camera is actually working all night. Side note: Netgear, it's a baby monitor, not Arlo Pro with a cute costume. People stream baby monitors and then maybe they download a few cute videos but we really care about seeing our babies in real time for longer periods of time. Oh and I get the screenshot I uploaded quite frequently.

Camera works great. Easy install and set up. Night vision far exceeded my expectations, picture is super clear day and night. Lag is minimal when using the 2-way audio, detecting motion, etc. We are very satisfied with the response time and we have a newborn. No issues with any of the features. App works great. This is a must buy nursery camera if you like the look and want to use the features that are built-in.

Let me start by saying, I'm a level 2 IT engineer. If you like to sleep at night, or get stuff accomplished while your baby is napping, then DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS!!! You will constantly have login/buffering issues. The camera will randomly lose connection through out the night, then won't reconnect. Want to try to connect from a different device, HA! That's not going to happen (refer back to login/buffering issues). Want to take it on vacation with you? Sure, you can do that, just plan on doing a factory reset when you get there, because it will not connect to a new WiFi address without doing that. Then plan on doing another factory reset when you come back home. Oh, and plan on just doing factory resets frequently, because of all the issues it has. Also plan on going to you phone/tablet settings and clearing the cache, only to find that that doesn't help, so now you need to uninstall, reboot phone/tablet, and reinstall app. Guess what?! That only works about 30% of the time. It's got to be my internet! Nope, I have AT&T fiber, with an avg of 900 Mbps up and down. It's definitely got to be my router then! Nope, I've got an Asus AC3100 RT-AC88U, and have QoS enabled, with the Arlo as the highest priority. Then what is it?! It's Netgear! Lastly, Google: "Arlo baby no sound iOS", and look for all of the complaints when Netgear decided to push out the iOS app update (that's your iPhone and iPad app) that broke the sound. They refused to rollback the app, and it was a full week before a fix was rolled out. That's some great testing by Netgear! Also, try sleeping during that time! So, like I said, if you like to sleep, or get things accomplished while your little one is napping, then this camera is not for you. Pros: - Great picture (when it works) - Decent sound (when it works) Cons: - See my entire post.

It seems like this unit has an issue with latency. About 6 seconds to be exact. After hunting around forums, this is a known issue. My Arlo Home System has under 2 ms and works amazing. I'm a bit disappointed in this. (This is a small issue overall, but when regarding a baby... 6 ms isn't alright.)

Does pretty much everything I want it to do. Battery life is not very good though due to constant monitoring. You will have to keep this plugged in. Monitoring is good for humidity, temperature and motion. Image is amazing. Would be 5* if the battery lasted longer than a couple hours.