Arlo Technologies, Inc Wireless Home Security System Night Vision HD Video, Wall Mount Cloud Storage Included 5 Camera Kit

My daughter bought me a different security system from Walmart and I returned it and bought the Arlo after reading their reviews. I have to say that I've been very pleased with this system. The pictures are clear, even at night, and the motion detector catches everything ~ and everybody. The only downside are the batteries. They do tend to go dead pretty quickly. I bought some "high end" batteries that were supposed to last six months and they lasted less than 2. Rechargables might be the way to go.

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Seriously, one of the best investments I've made for the safety of my family in a while. Our house was broken into and ransacked while we were on vacation and I was so angry that nobody was caught. Now, there's been a series of car break-ins in my neighborhood in the middle of the night and I want to stop it from happening to me. These things are AMAZING!!! The video quality is superb and the night vision is high quality as well. I've been able to place them in trees, high on a chimney and on 3 doors for full property surveillance. I've actually convinced 2 of my friends to buy this system to watch over their farms (the cameras have great distance capabilities) and they are both very pleased this the ease of set up and the quality of video.Couple of things to consider. I bought black silicone sleeves for mine (you can find them on here) to "camouflage" them so they're hard to detect. Adjust your sensitivity levels on the cameras accordingly because if you set it too high, flying bugs will set it off when in armed mode and you'll get notifications all day and night. Do yourself a favor and purchase a couple of extra 12 packs of the batteries from Amazon because they're crazy expensive at a retailer like a hardware store or grocery store, but you can get them there in a pinch.One other thing, they can be removed from their base pretty easily, so consider placing them out of reach or purchasing a clear dome for any that you need in a low spot but don't want to be removed easily. I had birds landing on one that was in my oak tree and I was constantly finding it on the ground until I put the dome on it.Every night before I go to bed I arm my SimpliSafe system and my Arlo system and I sleep like a baby.

WHAT A WASTE OF TIME! I am a tech guy. Up front, just sayin, but the lure of "wireless" was just too much, against my better judgement to just get a WIRED security camera system, I jumped at this "convenient" wireless and "simple" bullet-proof system. Well, its not. Let me explain how MY experience went. SO I hook up the base station to my extensive LAN here at home, I sync each camera one by one, as instructed. And then it says click SEE LIVE for each camera, which showed a video view, but it never went live. I later discovered this is a compatibility issue, because I am running Windows 10 on a high end computer and using EDGE for my browser, completely up to date, I have the best computer super fast, etc., but this ARLO software was not showing me a correct view. Wasted an HOUR on this. Then I noticed, my mouse changed to a clickable shape when I moved it into the center of the video window. Voila! Now the camera went live. But some of the cameras did NOT go live, they instead showed a new click button that said UPGRADE FIRMWARE NOW. SO I clicked that, for each one, and I got NO FEEDBACK in the process but this ominous message that says DO NOT REMOVE BATTERIES DURING THIS PROCESS. So I didn't. But for some cameras the process did not finish. SO I searched online and found that some users had to wait DAYS until this process completed. Now that's just not acceptable. I rebooted, then it said no internet connection. Yet my browser showed and proved an internet connection. Something WRONG with this software. Still troubleshooting, I thought maybe I need to get the fastest connection on my home LAN as possible. I turned off the basestation to move it to a new location in my home near the router on the same switch there, next to the cable modem. I have fast 100 MBS speed. Then the cameras would NOT connect. Said no internet connection. So frustrated, I called tech support on a weekday afternoon. Nothing special, but nobody would answer for an hour! SO I hung up and went to the internet again. Seems like NETGEAR wants the consumers to help each other, because even the NETGEAR message boards for ARLO were full of comments from people seeking help and answers similar to my problem. One person said they were so frustrated, that they have been waiting 3 weeks now, and still NO help from Netgear. That's when I said, "how valuable is my time? I have wasted 4 hours already trying to get this stupid thing to work, and how long am I going to give it?" I gave it another hour. I tried reconnecting all the cameras, one by one, and then they wanted to still upgrade, some of them, not all, confusing on that... just what makes that decision in the software, because I never got any message that the firmware got upgraded. I searched online but it seemed that my version was newer than what was shown on the netgear message boards, so a bunch of conflicting information there. I am a tech guy. This tech guy could not get any satisfactory answers no matter how much I drilled down using a variety of key words and even resorting to Google search for help. Nothing except RANDOM experiments was available to me. ANd so many other people were having the same problems. The thing just does not work except maybe under the most simplistic circumstances, such as a one or two camera set up in the same room, maybe. Who knows? All I do know, is that my system would not record when there was motion, excepting on only ONE of my 5 cameras. So disappointing. How was this to give me ANY confidence that it could be reliably used as a "security" system to detect and inform me? LOL but not really. It also sent me an email every few seconds that there was some motion at one point. Ruining my phone call. SO I turned off notifications in my phone. What's the point if it can only notice you in the most annoying way??? I mean, I want some REAL feedback from the system, not an email everytime a leaf moves!! and for each camera, every 30 seconds. It renders my iPhone pretty useless to be bombarded with numerous notifications, all pretty meaningless. That's when I decided to pack it up. CUt my losses, and realize this just was not prime time. It was not panacea. Its something that works maybe 50% of the time for 50% of the people, and I guess that is their business plan, to sell a bunch and even with 50% returns, no big loss. Sooner or later this will just not be OK. Also, after these few hours, my battery levels in the cameras had DROPPED 20% to 80% !!! Does this mean it would only last a few days? I didn't want to find out. I got on Amazon and started the refund process. In my opinion, this product is junk. I don't think I have ever been as displeased in a product in my life, based on what my expectations were and how this all went down.

This system is easy to install and use. Once we figured out how to set up the camera's and test to make sure we were getting great pictures the battery life has stayed the same. It was during the initial set up that some of the batteries drained a bit. The recorded pictures are clear. I have not tested the audio yet. I have my system set on a schedule from 8 pm to 7 am so it's not recording 24/7 as I work from home. It is easy to manage from your computer or phone. We have told our family and friends and some of them are going to purchase a system of their own just by seeing how ours work.