Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Save your money. Arlo boasts six months on batteries but that's not what happens. I got nine days from four new batteries. I've gotten 14 days from another more expensive brand of batteries but that's the most. The batteries are the expensive camera batteries so its an investment of $40 every two weeks or less. The only way to get 6 months out of the batteries is to turn down the sensitivity on the motion detection and use the default of 10 seconds for a video. The problems with that are these. I bought my cameras because i was having issues with someone driving a black four door Mercury Marquis. If the sensitivity is not set to high then I don't record him passing by since he's driving by so quickly. His BLACK FOUR DOOR CAR will NOT register on motion sensors if using the default low setting. That's horrible. So, I have to turn it up and then I get a video of him and that shortens battery life. Also, the 10 second videos are worthless. Here's what that looks like. My daughter pulls across the driveway from left to right in a brown minivan. She stops halfway past the fence so it registers and I see the front half of the minivan. My youngest daughter starts walking to the van to get into the passenger seat and the video ends. It does NOT pick her up getting into the van nor does it record the van driving to the right. That amount of video is worthless to police if something were to happen just after the video ends. So, to get something useful you have to increase the duration of recording which shortens battery life. Another issue that I have run into is that when the batteries die I have to not only buy another $40 worth of batteries but the camera won't register with the hub to record the videos. I have to reconfigure everything as if I had just purchased the product. It SHOULD register the camera after the batteries are replaced but no, it doesn't. Every time I've replaced the batteries I have to reconfigure. I've updated the firmware as suggested by tech support as well as replaced batteries before they actually die. Even with that I still have to reconfigure the system as new. This is really frustrating. So, in short, if you use default settings to maximize the battery life to six months then you get ten second videos that are worthless to police and motion sensing will NOT detect a black four door vehicle if it drives by quickly. Once the batteries die you have to reconfigure the whole system as if you just bought it. This makes Arlo a horrible product and I regret my purchase. I mounted my camera underneath my light fixture and would love to be able to tie into that to power my camera. However, Arlo does not have that option. It would be a great feature to plug into an established hardwired power source and maintain a wireless feed for the camera. I don't want to run a wired camera system through my attic which is why I went with the wireless option. I am not happy with this product but don't have the money to buy a better one. So, I'm stuck. I wish I had bought a wired version of security camera and run the cables.