2024 the best surveillance camera system review
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Elevate your outdoor home security with the Arlo Pro 3 Floodlight Camera, a powerful fusion of bright illumination and high-definition surveillance. This innovative security camera for home is equipped with a Motion-Activated Floodlight that bathes your property in 2000 lumens of brightness, escalating to 3000 with the outdoor magnetic charging cable. The floodlight camera offers crisp 2K video with HDR to capture details in vivid clarity, day or night. The wide 160-degree viewing angle lets you see more and has auto-image correction to reduce the fisheye effect. Designed for convenience, this wireless camera is entirely wire-free, promising hassle-free setup and flexible placement. The Pro 3's Color Night Vision capabilities ensure your outdoor security is uncompromised, even in the darkest hours. The Weather-Resistant Build offers continuous protection through sun, rain, or snow. Receive instant alerts on your phone when the motion sensor detects activity, and take advantage of the Two-Way Audio to communicate with visitors. You’ll also receive notifications for people, vehicles, and packages so you can take quick action with emergency response features. With options to connect to solar power or use Rechargeable Batteries, your wireless security won't skip a beat. Live in the peace of mind that the Pro 3 Floodlight Camera provides. Arlo builds trusted, lifelong customer relationships by creating innovative, smart security solutions that deliver an exceptional user experience. The Arlo Secure App offers an intuitive way to control your home security with industry-leading features that help you take quick action. Our elegant design meets inspired engineering to create products that work as brilliantly as they look. And our industry-leading cybersecurity solutions ensure your data stays secure and accessible only by you. We adhere to a set of ethics and principles that shape how we design, produce, and deliver our products to you, so you can count on us.
Powerful 2K Vision: The Pro 3 Floodlight Camera captures detailed footage in 2K with HDR, ensuring clear video quality both day and night for superior outdoor security
Wire-Free Convenience: Install this wireless camera with ease anywhere outdoors without worrying about cables for a more flexible security system
Smart Alerts & Audio: Stay informed with Motion Sensor notifications and communicate directly through the camera with clear 2-Way Audio for added outdoor home security
All-Weather Reliability: Designed to withstand heat, cold, rain, or sun, this outdoor floodlight camera ensures surveillance with a bright, LED Floodlight
Arlo Secure Plan Trial: Premium features like 30-Day Video Cloud Storage; People, Package, and Vehicle Detection; 24/7 Emergency Response; and more, require a paid subscription after trial
Reviewer: Robin A.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Exactly what I wanted!
Review: I was looking for a flood light for my driveway that had wonderful color night vision. The Arlo floodlight has not disappointing so far. I also purchased the charging cable because I didnât wanna have to worry about batteries or solar I just wanted to direct power source. The light is very bright I actually even had to tone it back some on the app because it was blindingly bright lol. It has wonderful color night vision, great sound And picks up pictures very clearly. I also like the fact that you can turn on a siren if anything seems suspicious. I wanted to flood light so it would pick up great pictures at night in addition to the fact that it lights up my driveway very nicely without having to turn on the house lights. It is a great security issue at night. I have it set up so it shows my whole driveway and who is coming to my front door. And thatâs all I really needed it for and I love it. Would definitely buy again and would definitely refer to my friends and family
Reviewer: Jplumbob
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great camera light combo.
Review: I am very pleased with this camera. The setup and install on my garage was quick and easy. It connected to my Arlo base easily within seconds. I am amazed on how bright the light is. My garage sensor light just stopped working and that gave me the idea to add this to my system. It looks well made and durable and should have no problems outdoors. I do not think i will have any battery life issues because i purchased the outdoor power cord. I do recommend the cord because it increases the light brightness adding increased security to my home. I will give it about 6 months and do an update.
Reviewer: Marie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great cameraâ¦
Review: 12345We are absolutely impressed so far with this product! The solar panel is a must to go along with the floodlight for constant daily charging because this camera picks up everything! The light is amazing at nighttime! Illuminates everything without being blinding. We have only had this product for a week now, but truly would recommend! Also, video quality phenomenal without having to sacrifice battery life.Only con would be, if you donât have the solar panel; charging is a pain. They send you one kind of charger but this item is more easily charged by the magnetic charger that they do not include and is sold separately.
Reviewer: blackfox23
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: DO YOUR RESEARCH! Hardware itself is okay, but anything beyond that is not worth the money
Review: My review is two part: (1) the product itself, (2) Arlo overall. In summary, the product itself is not really worth it unless you just want to be able to check in on the live feed and get motion alerts for things happening immediately in its focused area. Otherwise, expect to pay out the nose trying to get a system working the way you want it, only to find out it doesn't work the way you think it will.The product:The first floodlight camera arrived and after installing it and testing it out for a few days I noticed that the audio was horribly muffled as if it was underwater. You could talk to it head on and nothing could be heard. I was able to get the floodlight exchanged really easily with little headache (thank you Amazon). After installing the exchanged product I was able to verify no audio issue second time around.2K recording is decent during the day. When cars pull directly into my driveway I can make out the license plate number fairly clearly. The same cannot be said for the night time footage. I license plate could only be clearly read if the floodlight turns on and the car headlights aren't reflecting too brightly. The motion detect is hit or miss, I'm not sure why some days it does great and others it struggles. It took me 2 weeks of daily adjustments to get the motion areas just right so it didn't trigger when cars would drive by, but it would trigger when I had people walking passed or up onto the property.The service:I can't speak to what the experience is like without paying for Arlo. I imagine if you plan on using this for free, it is worthless. I wanted the full functional experience so I opted to pay the $15/mo for Arlo Secure Plus. This allowed for the ability to have 4K cloud recording, 30 days of cloud history, custom activity zones, smart (and rich notifications). The smart notifications is this product/services only redeeming quality. When motion is detected, Arlo sends you a notification letting you know if the motion is a person, animal, vehicle, or just general motion. This was really cool, at first, until it triggered a notification for something overnight that I wanted to follow up on. Unfortunately, the motion detection triggered a person prowling around, but I was not able to see all of there activity or see where they came from or where they went because the camera only recorded the motion trigger and about 30 seconds after the fact. Frustrated by this, I went to Arlo support to find out that a service option for continuous video recording (CVR) was available for $9.99/mo per camera. I figured I only really needed my main camera to be opted in to keep costs down. Well, I looked all over Arlo support and spent days, if not a few weeks e-mailing back and forth with Arlo to finally find out that the only way you can opt in to CVR is if you have an Arlo smart base. Frustrated by this, I gave in and purchased a kit that included 2 - 4k Arlo Ultra 2 cameras and a smart base. Got the smart base all set up with no problem and even opted to insert a class 10 SD card into the base of it to backup video clips. Fast forward a few months and disaster strikes again, this time for my neighbor, who asked me to see if I had captured anything. I reviewed the camera I had opted into CVR and found that I had captured the entire crime from start to finish. Then, I tried to export the video to provide it to them and law enforcement, but ran into my next big headache... there was no option on either the app or while logged in on a browser to export the video. Again, I found myself researching for an answer for an hour or so to find that the consensus was to use a third party screen capture software. This is unacceptable! My camera obviously didn't record it off a motion even because I have it set up to not go off every single time a leaf twitches on my street. So, I took a screen capture of the video and provided it to my neighbor, but seeing as it didn't really provide suspect information, it is probably worthless. Even if it had, I question whether any such evidence would be suitable for the court as I have no way of exporting it and having the metadata show when it was actually captured. A screen capture obviously will only show the time of when my screen capture occurred.Overall, I'm incredibly disappointed because I've invested nearly $1k into all the equipment, accessories, and service just to find that it is nothing more than an overpriced system for someone far older than me who enjoys just being a nosy neighbor. If I could go back in time and avoid purchasing this I would have. Arlo doesn't seem to be in a rush to improve any of its products, so I'm not going to hold my breath for it to get better any time soon. Most of the answers to my questions I found have been asked and answered as far back as 2019, so obviously not a whole lot has improved over the years. I bought the system based on how it ranked on some of my favored technology review sites. I guess I should have dug deeper into the systems capabilities. This was my first time setting something like this up, so I really didn't know what I wanted until it was too late. Next time I'll buy a wired closed circuit system with a DVR and take the extra time fishing wire through the walls.
Reviewer: Michael E.
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Awesome Camera
Review: Absolutely love this camera. I bought it on prime day and it was about half off. It is pretty easy to set up and install, has great video quality during day or night, and has a lot of customization on the what motion will trigger it. I live in a busy street and am able to create zones to prevent it from detecting motion every time a car drives by. The floodlight is insanely bright and it has a dusk to dawn feature to prevent it from turning the light on during the day. The battery lasts about 3 months and charges pretty quickly. I had a masked person walk up to my house recently in the middle of the night. The camera sensed the motion and sent an alert to my phone immediately. It also spot lighted them, which deterred them from trying to break in. I wish it hadnât happened at all, but itâs terrifying to think of what might have happened if I didnât have the camera, or if I had a camera that didnât light up when it saw motion. Iâll be buying another one for my back door now. You do have to have an Arlo subscription for it to save video clips, but itâs very inexpensive. I think for a single camera, itâs like $2 a month and itâs around $10 a month for unlimited cameras. You get a free trial period when you first get the camera, but in my opinion itâs worth the few dollars for the extra features. Itâs worth noting that the camera still works without the subscription, it just lacks some of the features that you would want out of a smart security camera.
Reviewer: nash shariff
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: best price - awesome product but you will need to buy out door charger - 25 ft about $60.00 pricy .look for wasserstein charger much cheaper - works on Arlo . outdoor camera . Bought from Best Buy market Place . Please read review before buying - the first time I was screwed . Sent me wrong one and would't replace it .
Reviewer: Jason
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Keeps failing and going offline. At this price was expecting more.
Reviewer: Anahi CZ
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: He tenido otras cámaras Arlo y son muy buenas. Pero aparentemente esta aun no funciona bien. Es dificil instalarla, no graba y yo no puedo controlarla jamás. Fue suuuper dificil configurar que encendiera la luz. No la recomiendo nada
Reviewer: michael sukamto
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I bought this Arlo pro 3 flood light camera almost 1.5 years ago (in June 2021, it is now january 2023). In that time I have barely used the camera and have charged it less than 5 times. The last time I used it was months ago and the need arose to use it again now.I plug the camera in to charge and it does not charge. I try multiple cables and power blocks and different outlets. The LED doesn't light up indicating that there's no charge. So I contact customer support, they run me through all thr basic troubleshooting of pulling out the battery and putting it back in and trying the charging ohtbwith different cables and outlets and pressing the reset button, nothing works.Then they ask to see a copy of the receipt, I bought this from Amazon US but it was shipped to me in Singapore, they said because I am in Singapore they can no longer proceed with further support. So they won't give me a warranty replacement because I am outside of the US.So BEWARE!! NO WARRANTY SUPPORT IF YOU RESIDE OUTSIDE OF U.S. and if you check online you can see that this issue of non-charging is quite common across their various camera products. Don't even get me stated on the subscription service model that they have to keep on charging you fees after you have dished out hundreds to buy the camera.
Reviewer: Darren Casboult
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Fantastic product, have now changed to Arlo security, easy to use App.
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Customers like the camera quality, brightness, and ease of installation of the security camera. They mention it works great, the light is bright, and the video quality is great. However, some customers have issues with functionality and disagree on the battery life, value for money, and motion detection.
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