Arlo - SmartHub - White

I grabbed the Arlo Hub so i could use my Arlo cameras for homekit and also attach my own 256gb flash drive to store footage instead of paying Arlo for cloud storage.

Why might you buy this? -Ability to connect a hard drive for local recording -HomeKit integration -Gets all the cameras off your normal wifi which should help with speed a bit. Its annoying you need this for HomeKit, but it does what its supposed to and I don't have any complaints. I use it for HomeKit integration (streaming video, notifications, and they can be used as motion sensors), I have a HDD plugged in for redundant storage with the cloud, and it helps get 3 cameras off of my very loaded wifi. NOTE: You will need to reset every single camera and re-set them up using this.

The only complaint I have is it did not connect at first with Apple homekit. Uninstalled and even called tech support. Finally figured it out on my own.

Great hub for my Arlo essentials and my old Arlo cameras. I needed this hub to help integrate the Arlo essentials to my app without having them rely on their hubless option. I am grateful to get this when I was notified it was available through Best Buy.

The hub is in my opinion a mandatory add-on for anyone who thought any of the cameras are 100% standalone. Since none of the cameras support local storage if anything hinders the uploading of a video to the cloud you get no notification on any events. So if your Internet plan limits the upload bandwidth (as most do), once you reach that limit your camera is worse than useless at this point and silently dropping events.

Great hub but the replacement Arlo 4 camera that I bought to replace an older camera that wasn’t working required this new hub as the old one doesn’t work with it, Should be backward compatible but it’s not. I wasn’t planning to buy an new hub but was forced to in order to make the camera work.

I bought two Arlo essential spotlight cameras. I did not have this base. Set up was confusing, decided to purchase this item and bam!! In less than 8 mins both cameras were up and going. If you are going wireless on security cameras don't hesitate to have this quality product.

These finally came back in stock after we were told they were no longer being made. Unfortunately when we bought our cameras we were told we did not need the base station for them. Well an additional cost later. It does work well.