Arlo Essential Security Cameras Wireless Outdoor 1080p HD (2nd Gen, 2023 Release) - Battery Power, Person Recognition, Package Detection, Animated Preview, 1-Month Trial of Secure Plan, 3 Cam, White

Absolutely love the Arlo Essential Outdoor Camera (2nd Gen)! Setup was a breeze—everything you need is in the box, including the mount, charging cable, and screws. The video quality is super crisp, even at night thanks to the color night vision. I feel a lot more secure knowing I can monitor everything from my phone, and the motion detection is accurate without being too sensitive. Battery life has been solid so far, and the design is sleek and modern. If you’re looking for a reliable, easy-to-use outdoor camera, this is definitely a win!

These cameras are amazing! I use them outdoors to monitor my rabbits, and they have held up great through the Florida weather. They have a long battery life, and you receive alerts when the battery is getting low. Really good video quality, and sound quality. They are easy to set up and connect to devices. Absolutely worth the money.

I’ve had these cameras for a couple years and never had an issue with them! Great picture quality, fast charge, stays charged for over a month still! Won’t get anything different!

Pretty solid cameras overall. Motion detection actually works well, and the phone notifications are handy. Vehicle detection is a nice touch and color night vision is noticeably better in low light. The big gripe is the communication feature, it could be easier to use. If they streamline that, this would be near perfect.

I've had the Arlo Pro 2 security cameras for several years. I thought I'd upgrade to a newer generation of cameras, thinking there must be some improvement in the electronics by now. Unfortunately, I don't think this Essential Security Camera was an improvement. Instead, I think overall it's a step backward from my old cameras.First let's start with the image. Though it's advertised as 1080p HD, I really can't tell much difference between this and my old Arlos. So there's no appreciable gain in image quality even though the electronics is much newer. And there's still a lag between when something is moving in front of the camera and when you can see it on the app. The lag can be quite long, like 10 seconds or more depending on your Wifi connection. So you can't use this camera to monitor an active situation happening because it's way behind real life movements. Again no improvement from the old model.Now let's start with the bad things about this camera. Let's start with the mount. The old mounts on my Pro 2 cameras allow the camera to be placed perpendicular to the mount. Not so with the Essential cameras. The mount only allows a few degrees of turn from a straight on position. This really inhibited where I could mount the camera, and I could not it put in the same locations as my old cameras.Then there's the issue of the nonremoveable battery. The old Pro 2 had a removeable battery so that one can remove it to charge up while a freshly charged batter is popped in. This can be annoying if you don't like grabbing a ladder to go up and replace the battery. I bought solar chargers for them so I didn't have to replace the batteries as much. But for the Essential Security camera, the WHOLE camera has to be TAKEN DOWN to charge the battery. The mount design allows you to slide the camera off so it can be taken in to charge. But that means you have to be without a camera while it's charging and you have to climb a ladder multiple times. I also bought solar chargers for this new camera. If you don't, be prepared to go up to the camera to remove it to charge every few weeks. I can see this as being a deal breaker.On the old camera, you can use the Arlo app to turn the image 180 degrees. This is helpful because the camera lens is near the top of the camera. In some locations, I had to mount the camera upside down to clear some low lying obstruction. Then I just use the app to turn the image upright. I didn't see any mention of this in the product description, but the Essential Security camera does not have this feature. I don't know why they couldn't do it since it's just a software manipulation. Again this prevented me from using the camera in the same locations as my old ones.So my low ratings is because I got no new real improvement in my security cameras. Instead I feel like the features are worse compared to the old design.Update: Okay this camera is much worse than I thought so I downgraded to one star. The fatal flaw is that you are required to purchase Arlo's ridiculously priced "premium" plan for $24.99 per month. You get 60 days of free use. That conveniently happens to be the return window. Once the return window is over, the Arlo app says the camera requires the premium plan to be functional. That means even though the camera is linked to my base station which has a thumb drive attached, nothing is getting saved to the drive. The camera now only works in live mode. So if you want to see anything that happened even one minute ago you're out of luck. I could buy the one camera plan, but who has only one security camera around their house? The premium plan also includes live monitoring. I'm not sure I want some stranger at Arlo, or whoever they subcontracted, watching my house all the time, if they're really even watching. Or having them call the police to my house without my knowledge. That's a feature that I didn't ask for or want to pay for. I just want the camera to record what's going on outside my house. And you can guarantee that premium plan will go up in price eventually. Because of this corporate greed, I am taking down the Essential and reattaching my Pro 2 cameras which let me record the videos without paying for a plan. Total rip off and waste of money.

Works great on time

Love this camera! Love that it has colored night vision and the smart technology to be able to recognize faces. The spotlight at night is also perfect!

Very hard to get up and running . I am still struggling to get setup and get them to work . HELP !!!!

Las cámaras como tal no tienen ningún problema, a este modelo no se les puede extraer la batería y aún no funcionan en México, una solución para esto es crear una cuenta en USA para funcionen en otro país.

Love arlo. So easy to set up.

It wasn’t mentioned that it Doesn’t work in Saudi Arabia

Es increíble que Amazon se preste a vender productos que no son operativos en México y ellos lo saben te hacen perder tiempo y dinero ,estas cámaras no son compatibles en México y cero soporte técnico que tienen puro chat robot mega limitado una BURLA

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