Customer Ratings & Reviews

I had been researching a few cameras for over a year and finally decided to go with the Arlo Pro 2. These things work great and the video quality is clean. The cameras battery doesn’t last the amount of time of what Arlo states but they do have different recording features, I keep it at best quality and that make be why? By the end of the 7 day week I’m at 20%. That’s the only negative I have about these. Other than that I love them. Here’s a funny shot I got from my front house with the Arlo Pro 2

Camera overall has great quality video, got it on sale during the black Friday deals so this thing cost $700 original, so glad I got it for $400, very difficult to set up through WIFI, so be ready to have lots of patience, but once set up its so peaceful seeing the awesome pics.

I can’t express how much I love this set of cameras! I love the features it has along with how easy to use they are. They feel a bit pricey but definitely worth every penny! I feel safer knowing I can check up on this away from home. They have a free plan with basic feature, so no monthly fee which is the best! Also their paid plans aren’t astronomical so they have one for everyone’s needs. Can’t Recomened these enough!

I regret buying this. It's hardly weatherproof. I have it connected to an outdoor outlet via USB weathersealed cable and connection still got rusty! It was working fine a few weeks in this form, but I've been getting charging fault errors lately and now the front camera won't charge at all! Took it down and saw that the USB port has rusted! It still seems to work for recording but now just won't charge. Brought it inside to clean and charge, but won't charge at all through USB. Now I'll have to invest in more batteries or a battery charger. I spent a great deal of time routing the cable carefully along the house to the outdoor GFCI in-use outlet I specifically installed for this purpose, all for nothing. The second camera seems fine considering it's just battery powered. They also claim three to six months of battery life. That's not even remotely close to what you will realistically get. I barely got five weeks and it's just me coming in and out of my house from work and walking my dog several times a day for a few seconds in camera time. Find another solution. Unfortunately, too late for me to return, so I'm stuck with it, but you don't have to be. Buy something else. You have been warned.

Went from a wire system to a wireless and this is without a doubt the best I’ve ever had. I get notifications every time someone walks up to my gate and it records video for the duration of the time they are there. Mostly my mail man but one guy stopped by my house at least 4 times while I was at work. Never knew the guy. Pretty sure he was scoping out the place because there were no cars there. The last video I have of him is one where he looks up and sees the camera and walks away. Haven’t seen him in weeks. Needless to say, great system does the job well.

The picture quality during the day is fantastic!! It covers a pretty wide range. However, the night time vision is dark and it doesn’t have as good quality picture. Mine is set up at the top of my front door facing the street and when I look at the live footage at night I can’t see a good view of the street like I can during the daylight hours. Also, the camera itself is secured by a magnet into the socket which I worry may fall off during storms or even if someone intentionally knocked it down.

Decent cameras audio doesn’t work that well though. The cameras work well they only pick up movement and record short videos average 15 seconds then turns off to save battery life. They have a function to be able to have two way audio to where you could talk to somebody that’s at your door or in your house but there’s a huge delay and most of the time they’re gone before your message gets to them that’s pretty much my biggest complaint everything else works as described

Easy to install, easy to navigate and set up. I would recommend the skins you can cover them with when using outside, but it’s not a necessity. I plan to purchase a few more to go with the current set.

The set up was easy. The camera batteries came pre charged so I could set them up and start viewing on my phone via WiFi quickly. I find the user app easy and has high quality images. I thought the battery life would last longer, but since they are wireless and connected 24 hours they only lasted about 3 weeks before they needed charged again. Would reccomend a wired camera is local power is available. I didn’t have power at these locations. I can connect them to a hardwire at a later date when I get the time to extend outlets to the other buildings

I was not sure about the reception from these cameras; however, my family traveled out of town the first night the cameras were installed and the Arlo Pro 2 did not disappoint us. I am very glad we chose this brand.

We love our Arlo Pro 2. We installed it at our cabin. I can look at the stream that runs by my deck as well as the entry doors. I can watch it snow in the mountains of Tennessee while sipping wine in Florida.

Very nice camera easy to set up also nice to be able to check on all devices.

I’ve used the Arlo Pro 2 camera setup for the last 7-10 days and I can definitely say that The Arlo Pro is a great home security camera unit. I’ve used various other network connected security and motion cameras from a few different brands, and the Arlo Pro stacks up nicely with them. While the Arlo does suffer from some of the same annoyances as some of their competitors, the Arlo Pro is an amazing product. Cameras: My Arlo Pro came with (2) HD motion cameras and a magnetic wall mount for each. The cameras are a perfect size, not too large and feel very solidly built, lots of quality in the build. The cameras run on new rechargeable batteries, that depending on your frequency of use of Live video or motion capture, should last a very long time. Over my use of them for the last 10 days, the battery meter is still showing full, and that is with a mix of lots of motion detection and live mode viewing for this review. They can also be powered by a micro USB cable. You get one cable in the box, but if you want to use your own, be careful as the opening for the micro USB port on the back of the camera is very narrow. The supplied cable worked fine, but all of my other cables in my home did not, as the cable connection end was too wide. The powered connection is great if you want to use the cameras indoors, but since the cameras are weatherproof, it doesn’t make sense to power them outside, since having a micro USB cable plugged in will expose the inside of the camera to the elements. Plus, who really wants to run micro USB cables outside? Base Station: The Arlo Pro cameras connect to a base station. You connect the base station to your network via Ethernet and then sync the cameras to the base station. Now other cameras in this space generally connect directly to your network via Wi-Fi, so having a base station needing an Ethernet connection could seem like a negative, but I don’t think it is. In fact, I think it’s a positive, because compared with my other Wi-Fi only enabled smart cameras, the Arlo Pro seems to have the strongest connection and the least amount of lag time getting in and out of the videos. It almost seems that having the base station connect to the cameras directly improves the overall strength of the system, which is a huge plus for me. Definitely seems much quick to respond compared to other cameras I’ve used that were Wi-Fi only. I was able to get the whole system up and running in under 5 mins. Everything connected automatically and was simply to follow using the app. I did have one hiccup trying to connect my second camera, at first it did not recognize it. I closed and restarted the app and ran the sync camera tool again, and it was successful. The base station even has a built in siren if you want to use it as a quasi-home security system. if you see something that you don’t like on your video, and want to enable the siren, just push a button in the app. I will say, the siren is LOUD. It’s louder than my actual home security system alarms. And the base station gives simple to see LED light confirmations of network activity and cameras connected. The footprint is also very small which is nice, so sitting next to the router doesn’t take up that much more space. Video Quality: The video from the Arlo Pro is very nice. HD 1080p is what the cameras are rated and you can either keep them set there or drop the resolution down if you want, to 720p or 480p if you want to try and stretch the battery life. The video quality of both motion captures and live view recording is very very nice. Clean and clear and full of color. I never really noticed any lag or stuttering or any pixilation. The video is clear and smooth. The night vision clarity is also very very good. Stacked up against other cameras I’ve used, the Arlo Pro ranks up at the top in terms of the video quality, I was very impressed. You also want to make sure you have enough internet connection for the cameras as well. Have at least 2Mbps of upload speed headroom to use just for the cameras if you want to make sure the connection and video quality is good. Since they are network connected, task the network and your video is going to suffer. Motion Capture and Live View: I was very impressed with the motion capture of the Arlo Pro. Motion detected immediately fires off a ping to my smartphone and once you view the clips, the camera doesn’t hesitate to start recording, even when the motion was fast moving. This was the #1 complaint I’ve had with other motion detection cameras, that by the time I got the ping to check the camera, and when the camera started recording, the motion event was already over or I was looking at the back of someone walking away, etc. The Arlo Pro does not have that problem. It begins recoding immediately and you don’t miss a thing. The ping of the notification to the app is also very fast, allowing you to see the motion going on and make decisions or use the two way talk feature to communicate with whoever is on the other end of the camera. Going in to Live View is also very fast. Live View is a huge advantage, for when you want to proactively see what’s happening and record longer manual videos. The Arlo Pro shines in both areas here. I will say though, one issue I have was with the sensitivity of the motion capture. I was struggling to find a sweet spot to where I only got the notifications of motion I wanted, not blowing leaves or tree branch, or nothing at all because it was set too low. I was either getting slammed with notifications on some days, and not getting any on others. Something hopefully Netgear will improve upon. You can also set up Zones if the camera is powered by a cable, which helps greatly, really only notifying you of motion is a manually created zone, but not ideal for outdoors. Arlo Pro APP: The app is laid out very nicely. The app gives you three sections – Mode, Devices and Library. In the Mode section, this is where you can tell your Arlo Pro system what logic to use when capturing video. You have the options of Armed (motion is captured), Disarmed (no motion is captured but Live View is available), Schedule (where you can tell the Arlo Pro to record on certain dates/times), and Geofencing (where the Arlo Pro will respond to an Armed mode when your smartphone is outside the geofence area and the system sees you as “away”). These all work very well. The geofencing mode is my favorite. If I’m home, I tend to not want all my notifications coming to me, but once I leave, the system knows to kick over to Armed and start checking for motion capture, all without me having to go in and switch it myself. Love it. The Devices section shows you a dashboard of your connected cameras. You see the last image that the camera recorded and the timestamp, and you have the LIVE button right there to go into each camera in Live View. From here you also have all the settings for each camera, the connection status, the battery status and how many motion events the camera has recorded. The Library section is where the app stores all of your recorded events. You see a running account of all the videos recorded, and have the option to view them and also favorite, share, download or delete. All in all the Arlo Pro is a wonderful system for helping secure your home and give you piece of mind.

I bought the Arlo Pro 2 camera system because of the quality and price plus reliability of the system. I have mounted these cameras outside under the eaves of my home. I have them connected with electrical power so that I have the full capabilities of the system such as setting up motion detection zones. The infrared capability is fantastic at night. I receive push and email notices on my iPhone when motion is detected. I can view in real time any of my four cameras the scene of what is going on plus record plus sound and microphone from my iPhone. I recommend the Arlo Pro 2 camera system.

I now have 5 Arlo cameras. Four at home and one at the beach condo. Very simple to setup and use.

Very easy set up. Batteries last long on single charge. Video quality is great. Night vision is decent.

Great cameras clear night vision an works fine no problem Buena calidad se las recomiendo fácil de instalar

I installed 2 of there cameras in my apartment and love them . Great pic quality and awesome battery life

We first bought Arlo for our daughter who lives alone in a Condo. After seeing how well it works and getting the 4 camera discount from Bestbuy, we had to have one for our home as well. Love having 24 hour surveillance of our front and back door areas from inside and out, & being able to watch the dog while we're away. No contract and monthly payment is a BIG BONUS. We're adding a fifth just to watch the wildlife!

======= Summary ======= The Arlo Pro 2 is a feature-packed & well-balanced security system. It has very good image and audio quality, setup is super easy and fast, camera control through the App and Website are superior and superb, and the connection is rock-solid. Free 7-Days of Cloud Storage is absolutely great and appreciated. ======= Design ======= I'm a fan of the Arlo Pro 2 system's design. I love the white and black color theme which matches my interior and furniture very well. The cameras are modern-looking and cool. The cameras are very easy to assemble as well. Press the button on the back-side of the unit to pop open the battery housing and simply insert the battery (which came fully charged out of the box). On the back of each camera, there is a flap that protects the charging port. Should one desire to, you can also power the cameras with wired charging so you don't have to remember to charge the battery later. Choosing to power the cameras via a wire opens up additional camera features such as the "3-Second Look Back" option and the "24/7 CVR" continuous recording option. When the cameras are run on battery power, it will only record during Sound & Motion trigger events. The Base Station, which is connected to your home router, also offer options for connecting your own USB drives for local storage. If the included wall mounts are not flexible enough for your security and usage needs, Arlo offers lots of different accessories such as an outdoor mount, a solar panel, a charging station, table & ceiling mounts, additional wall mounts (2 of these are included in the package), and different color skins to change the look of the Arlo camera units. Speaking of the included wall mounts, those are really cool~! The wall mount themselves are screwed onto a wall but the Arlo cameras connect to the wall mounts via magnetic force, which is very strong and powerful. I found this magnetic mounting system to be very elegant and nifty. This nice and thoughtful ecosystem that Arlo has created provides users with great flexibility and convenience. ======= Setup & Connectivity ======= Everything about the setup process is very simple and easy. Once the Base Station has been connected to the router and has been powered on, it is a simple matter to press the Sync button on both the Base Station and each of the Cameras to get them synced (cameras must be synced one at a time). Once synced, the "Arlo" app from the app store is used to connect and control the Arlo Pro 2 security system. One can also go to the Arlo website on a PC to view and control the cameras as well. The Arlo app walks you through the account creation & setup process in a easy-to-understand manner. Firmware updates are handled inside the App and additional cameras can be added from here as well. I rate the Setup process a 10/10 for being so simple, fast, and for proceeding without a hitch. ======= App & Website Options & Performance ======= Both the Arlo app and the Arlo website are fantastic~! The layout is very clean, intuitive, simple, and very easy to find the functions and settings you want. Both the App and Website are very reliable as well. The Live Feeds came through without any visual or audio distortitions and the connections remained speedy and responsive to my commands and inputs. In the "Devices" tab of the app, one can view the Live Feed from both cameras at the same time. Each camera can be separately controlled & one can do many things to it - pause the video feed, record video, take a picture snapshot, adjust camera brightness, perform a 2-way walkie-talkie-like communication via the loud speaker, mute the camera audio, and view the feed in Full Screen. Through expressive & clear icons, the App also tells you if sound & motion detection is turned on or not, what the Wifi signal quality is, the battery level, whether an external storage device has been connected, and how many security events have been detected. In the "Mode" tab of the app, you can select from 4 different preset security settings - Armed (Motion & Audio detection + Notifications), Disarmed (no detections), Schedule (activate Motion & Audio detection only on certain days and certain times of your choice), and Geofencing (trigger Motion & Audio detection when you're away from Home & turn them off when you come Home). One can also create a Custom Mode to your liking. In the "Libray" tab, you can view all the saved videos from the Motion & Audio triggered events (last 7 days of security event videos are stored for free courtesy of Arlo Cloud). Even with hundreds of video clips available to sort through, the App performed very smoothly and fast on my Samsung Galaxy S8+. Video quality and playback performance were excellent. Each clip that has been saved can be Favorited, Shared, Donated (sent to Arlo for R&D purposes), Downloaded, or Deleted. From the Settings screen, one can rename the Base Station and each of the cameras. Additional cameras can be added & firmware updates are done here as well. Other things you can do include changing your Arlo subscription model, buying add-ons and accessories, setting up Fingerprint access, and managing how notifications are delivered (sound, vibrate, LED light). All in all, the Arlo App and Website are powerful tools that are also very easy and intuitive to use. A definite 10 out of 10 experience. ======= Performance ======= Both cameras performed brilliantly during use under all conditions (low light, night vision, natural sunlight, overcast & gloomy). The 1080P video quality is sharp and vibrant. The incoming audio quality is very good with no static or other distortions. The 2-way speaker is nice and loud and the other party had no trouble hearing me or understanding me. Everything just works and works very well. Another 10 out of 10. ======= So, is it any good? Is is a good buy? ======= Most definitely~!! I've tried & experienced four different security systems under $500 from different vendors so far and the Arlo Pro 2 security system is hands-down the BEST one I've used so far. Its video & audio quality and performance are great, setup is easy and connections reliable, 7 days of free Cloud storage is awesome, and the App and Website experience is supremely smooth and performant. I highly recommend the Arlo Pro 2~!!