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(starts 11/10 at Walmart) Arlo Essential Spotlight Cameras $199 + free s/h (free store pick-up)
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Without a sub, you can still view the stream live and get notifications on motion. However, your notifications will be for any detected motion on any part of the camera's field of vision, which can be quite annoying if you have lots of activity. The subscription's AI detection helps filter notification for Person, Vehicle, and Animal detection. This feature might also explain why there is often a lag time between when motion is detected and when you get a notification.
Local storage is available still IF you have a base station (which this deal does not). The upcoming Costco deal starting Nov 20 for 3 Arlo Pro 4 XLs + Base Station $350 does have a base station and records in 1440p. You still miss on a lot of the useful functions without a subscription here too.
Without a sub, you can still view the stream live and get notifications on motion. However, your notifications will be for any detected motion on any part of the camera's field of vision, which can be quite annoying if you have lots of activity. The subscription's AI detection helps filter notification for Person, Vehicle, and Animal detection. This feature might also explain why there is often a lag time between when motion is detected and when you get a notification.
Local storage is available still IF you have a base station (which this deal does not). The upcoming Costco deal starting Nov 20 for 3 Arlo Pro 4 XLs + Base Station $350 does have a base station and records in 1440p. You still miss on a lot of the useful functions without a subscription here too.
These Arlos don't sound like they'd be the best for your use case scenario.
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I went with Arlo because it fit my needs. I essentially admin the tech for my parents' and 2 sibling's homes, in addition to mine own. They've been wanting a setup like I have at my home, and I found Arlo to be the most convenient all around solution within my budget.
In my research, I had narrowed it down to 5 options. Ring, Arlo, Wyze, Ubiquiti, and Lorex. For the TL;DR on these:
- Ubiquiti - My #1 pick if I had a larger budget and more access to run cables throughout the house to a central network drop.
- Lorex - Running cables would be a logistical challenge.
- Wyze - Smart detection and services still aren't fully there. Good budget system, but just didn't meet all my use needs I laid out.
- Ring - Faster with nice bells and whistles, but at a slightly higher price and more difficult to admin subscription service. Plus, the additional privacy concerns pushed me further away as well. Also lacked vehicle detection on the doorbell camera.
- Arlo - Decent person, animal, and vehicle detection. Animal detection is useful because I get stray animals using my yard as a litter box and I have an automation in place to turn on the sprinklers in the camera's respective zone for 1 minute when an animal is detected. Has local recording to my USB drives with base stations. Package detection is also a nice feature for when I get deliveries to my porch. Only major flaw I've experienced with this system is the consistent lag between real time and the video feed. The video is usually 2-5 seconds behind what is happening in real time.
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I went with Arlo because it fit my needs. I essentially admin the tech for my parents' and 2 sibling's homes, in addition to mine own. They've been wanting a setup like I have at my home, and I found Arlo to be the most convenient all around solution within my budget.
In my research, I had narrowed it down to 5 options. Ring, Arlo, Wyze, Ubiquiti, and Lorex. For the TL;DR on these:
- Ubiquiti - My #1 pick if I had a larger budget and more access to run cables throughout the house to a central network drop.
- Lorex - Running cables would be a logistical challenge.
- Wyze - Smart detection and services still aren't fully there. Good budget system, but just didn't meet all my use needs I laid out.
- Ring - Faster with nice bells and whistles, but at a slightly higher price and more difficult to admin subscription service. Plus, the additional privacy concerns pushed me further away as well. Also lacked vehicle detection on the doorbell camera.
- Arlo - Decent person, animal, and vehicle detection. Animal detection is useful because I get stray animals using my yard as a litter box and I have an automation in place to turn on the sprinklers in the camera's respective zone for 1 minute when an animal is detected. Has local recording to my USB drives with base stations. Package detection is also a nice feature for when I get deliveries to my porch. Only major flaw I've experienced with this system is the consistent lag between real time and the video feed. The video is usually 2-5 seconds behind what is happening in real time.
Sorry for the essay. Hope this helps a little!I've watched and read a number of reviews which is what put me on to Arlo as top choice.
Great idead with the animal detection and stray cat automation!
I hadn't even considered that and would be great for my yard being the neighborhood litter box.
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