Customer Ratings & Reviews

Easy to use it takes you step by step to set it up. The picture quality on the cameras is excellent and well and the battery last a fair amount of time.

I bought this camera before I upgraded to make sure I enjoyed the Arlo system. I now love these cameras, I do recommend the upgraded cameras. Mainly due to the removable battery. However solar panel does great at keeping them charged

The product works wonderfully, the quality is incredible and the fact of not connecting even a cable solves many things

Love it nice and small and simple. Clear picture to see good

We got this camera because of random people coming in and out of our neighborhood. And our ring camera wasn't very good picture. This camera is definitely an upgrade and is a great price. Great picture quality. Would definitely recommend. Plan on getting one more.

good picture on the camera, charging is not like my other ones you have to plug it in

Nice camera. Really nice pictures. I was disappointed that they removed the magnetic mount. I had to use a different mount so that the camera could be mounted at a 90 degree angle to the wall.

This is a great camera for my needs! Very little lag and really good video quality. Takes great photos too!

Great security system. Easy to install and convinient app access. I can keep an eye on things while I'm away from home.

Very good I have the whole Arlo set up. It just sucks. You have to pay to run your videos back.

It’s very convenient and affordable also useful indoor and outdoor

This product was a good buy. I needed to update my security and I chose this product.

I absolutely love my camera’s. I’m so happy with this purchase. Thank you guy’s so much…

I have used many security cameras now and when I first got this Arlo camera I was very impressed. Out of the box, visually looks good and the overall setup was very easy. Their Arlo Secure mobile app was intuitive and the user interface is well thought out. A few of the things to call out for it's included features are 2 way audio, emergency siren, 130 degree viewing angle, and motion activated spotlight. The battery seems to be holding up well. I have the power management setup to "Optimized", which balances video quality and battery life. I like that you can setup thresholds for when to go into automatic low power saving mode. This low power saving mode will take snapshots instead of using video recordings. There are settings to adjust video brightness, screen flickering for shutter speed adjustments, setup activity zones, motion detection sensitivity, recording length options, and night vision. For the notifications received for different motion alerts, it identifies people and animals really well. On occasion I will get alerts if the wind is causing certain motions but I think it varies on if you have the activity zones setup. One thing I am highly considering is Arlo's solar panel to keep this thing charged. This would be great once I have the camera installed in a more permanent location and where it might not be so convenient to have to unmount/mount to charge the battery up.

I got the Arlo Essential Outdoor 2nd Generation camera to replace one of my Arlo cameras that was about 4 years old or so and I was tired of replacing the CR123 batteries. This camera has an internal battery that should far outlast multiple replacement batteries on my older camera. Setup went flawlessly. I already have the Arlo app with two separate locations setup (home and vacation home). The app walks you through the setup and it went perfectly connecting directly to my wifi. The camera is located approx. 150 feet from the wifi router and the signal was stated as “strong” during the setup, so I’m pleased that I could mount it at my detached garage and have it pointing back at our cabin and driveway. I added it to our existing location’s profile and it synced up perfectly with the existing automated routines. The camera provides a very wide angle, significantly wider than our previous camera. The images are sharp and detailed, even at night. The motion detection worked great, saw some deer walking across our driveway one evening and the camera’s spotlight lit them up. I’ve only had it for a few days but I think it’s a great addition to our Arlo system and will provide excellent security. Highly recommended.

This second generation arlo essential outdoor camera is as good as the previous generation and more compact at affordable price . Easy to installed and connect directly to your WiFi home network, first charge the camera until the blue light stays on, then install the wall mount, adjust the camera angle by tilting the camera to the sides and down and then sync to the Arlo app. With this Arlo security camera you can capture clear video details on 1080p HD, color night vision, integrated spotlight, motion detection/ alerts 2way audio with noise cancellation and integrated siren that you can trigger manually or automatically with your settings. The box includes arlo camera with integrated battery, usb charging cable and wall mount, it also includes a free trial of Arlo secure plan. It works with Alexa and Google but it doesn’t work with Apple Home. So far the camera works great with a clear picture day or night, the spotlight is a plus the sound it’s clear with the noice cancelation but sometimes while watching the camera from your phone the sound is not as good, the sounds comes out like cosmic background noise , but I’m sure there’s some fixing with the settings for that. You have to make sure you set this camera to optimize battery life on the app, otherwise you will drain the camera. The only downside about this camera is that Arlo wants you to pay for a plan to get features like emergency response, smart object detention like people, packages, vehicles or animals, secure cloud storage, smart activity zones and animated previews, this is good if you don’t already have a security system in your home that has emergency respond features, I personally don’t like security cameras that provides you with limited features unless you pay for a plan. This camera would have also be nicer if it comes with a mini SD card that you can record your videos without paying for a cloud storage.

The nighttime video quality of the camera is disappointing, as the footage appears poor. Additionally, the camera takes a frustratingly long time to wake up when accessed through the app and frequently fails to connect. Overall, it's an underwhelming experience.

Difficult setup and severely limited functionality without a paid subscription hinder an otherwise decent security camera. I am a very tech-savvy guy, and I had nothing but trouble trying to setup the Arlo Essential (2nd gen) security camera. For days, I kept getting stuck at the "Searching for the device on our system" screen during setup. It wouldn't advance to the point where I could add the camera to my Arlo account. I kind of assumed that the device was just too new and the Arlo Android app needed to be updated. This proved incorrect, as I was able to install the camera using my Android tablet without issue. Why didn't it work with my new-model Samsung phone? I have no clue. It was very frustrating though. A 5-minute process on my tablet should not have taken hours on my phone. I dinked around with the network settings in my phone and my home's wifi network, too...which only made the problem worse because I had to eventually go back and revert all those adjusted settings. What a pain! Moving on... Mounting the camera takes about 5 minutes with the proper tools. A 15/64 inch drill bit is needed to drill the screw holes for the mount. The camera works pretty well. The night vision is nice, at least within 6 or so feet. Outside of that, things get fuzzy. But I can definitely make out faces within that 6-foot range. The spotlight is a nice feature, too. I like that I hear the audio around the camera too. It was funny hearing the postman blurt out a naughty word when he dropped my 35lb bag of dog food awkwardly from his truck. Poor guy. The camera comes with a 30-day Arlo Secure package. However, if you don't opt to continue the paid package, the camera is pretty useless. This is a real sticking point for me. All the camera is capable of without the "Secure" package is a live view and notifications. Notifications are pointless when you click them and are shown nothing but the live view. So if you get notified about movement, but check 10 minutes later, you can't actually see what the notification was for. All you see is the live view. Totally pointless. There's no on-board storage options, no SD-card storage. And no cloud storage without the paid subscription. Such a bummer. The package isn't too expensive, but I honestly feel like a one-camera package should be free...or I should have local storage options. Just a shame. I wish Arlo offered a better package for those not wanting to pay a monthly (or yearly) fee. It really brings down the score of an otherwise nice and capable WIFI security camera. Maybe you're okay with paying a fee, in which case this camera is solid. But it's not what I intended.

I don’t think it could get easier than this? Charge the camera, download the Arlo Secure app, connect the camera to the app, and then hold the camera in the location you would like to mount it to check the wifi signal strength. If it’s good, then mount the bracket with two screws and attach the camera to the bracket. No wires to run, no crawling around in the attic. I did have trouble getting the camera added to the app, I was about to contact Arlo’s support but it joined on the next try. This camera requires a 2.4 GHz wifi network so I had to join it to our guest wifi, our main wifi is 5 GHz and is not compatible. The picture clarity on this little camera in daylight is amazing, and the night vision isn’t too bad, without the spotlight it gets understandably grainy. With the spotlight on, it’s able to give you a color picture at night. I have a bit of an unusual use case for this little camera. I have three 3D printers that work away in the dark in my basement and I’d like to check in on them from time to time. This camera has a 1/4-20 mounting hole so I expect it will be easy to mount it to a bracket where it can view the print progress. Being able to manually turn on the spotlight through the app is a plus. I might not have much use for the camera’s built in speaker but with it’s microphone I can listen to hear if everything is running smoothly. The audio and video both operate with a slight delay, maybe 3-4 seconds? Not a big deal. You’d be able to talk with a delivery driver or run off an undesirable visitor. You could also use the built in siren to persuade a bad guy to leave. Motion detection worked good, it sends a notification for motion or if it detects a person then it sends a person detected message.

Ok for starters i like to get any problems with the device out there so you can find out first not half way through the review. So the only issue i have had so far is the way i have the camera in the afternoon the sun shines on it or actually in it's direction. So the issue i am talking about is when the sun is pointing in its direction it has this weird reddish hue to it and it will jump between a perfect picture and a reddish looking screen and even sometimes go into night vision all black and white mode.Now diven it is brand new and mite just be a setting i have to adjust or it will just kind of work itself out.We will see. Installation was a breeze two screws with a phillips head screwdriver and your done. Now it does not come fully 100% charged it was at 68% but it lets you know this in the included tiny book that comes with it. So i charged it up but i'm pretty sure i did not get it to 100% i say this because i looked at the battery life last night and it was at 90% at around 5pm at first i thought wow it burned through 10% battery life but i checked it this morning at 9am so basically 16 hours later and it's setting at 89% so i have a feeling i just did not have it charged all the way to 100% from the get go. Picture quality is great. I did notice when it is saying it is live if you look at the picture on the software on your phone there is a delay in the what is happening and what you see by about 1 to 2 seconds. Like you move your arm and 2 seconds later you see it move on the video on your phone.But if i hit the mic to talk you hear instantly what i am saying so there is no delay there. Now just FYI once you install the software it does give you an option to pay for there services and there is no close button or decline button.So you basically have to just close out the software and re open it. I wish they had a decline button so you did not have to do that because to me it looks like you are forced to buy there services,but you are not. All in all i love the camera and recommend to buy it if you are looking for a outdoor indoor camera. It's definitely built to take the weather outside and with winter rite around the corner im wondering how the battery will last outside in 20 degree temps.