Arlo Essential Security Camera 2K | Outdoor-Indoor | 2nd Gen | Wireless with Spotlight, 2-Way Audio, Color Night Vision, Live Stream, Motion Activation, Real Time Notifications – White, 2 Camera

Essential (with the SmartHub) is awesome if set up correctly.
Almost sent back!! These are excellent cameras “IF” set up correctly. Heads Up! Decide where you are going to mount them first. Then make sure you have the latest Arlo Secure App. Do each camera one at a time. When setting up the cameras on the app (have camera close to router) and when you get to the part of choosing your Internet Provider, choose,(Tap), your Provider, then TYPE in the Password for your ROUTER. Camera will recognize the Router and IT IS NOW PAIRED TO THE ROUTER. THIS STEP IS SO IMPORTANT. Then quickly go directly to where you are going to mount it and the camera will begin to start detecting the Router from where you are going to mount it. Once it goes GREEN for reading the Router (where you are mounting it) you are set – It Will Work. The camera and Router now know where each other are. We went thru 5 days of hell before we realized cameras were not reading or connected to the ROUTER. We clicked the 3 dots in the upper right hand corner on the app and clicked the minus mark for all 3 cameras (deleting them) and started all over. Now they are excellent. #1 camera is 50 ft from Router, #2 camera is 100ft from Router, and #3 camera is 200ft from Router all of them mounted outside and all of them working perfectly. We bought the black bird house covers for them and the black mounting brackets that they screw onto and they work amazingly. We also bought the SmartHub so it saves 5 days of videos without a subscription. We also have the original Arlo Pro (5 of them) and the Base Station all connected to the Router. And An Arlo Spotlight and Bridge for it. The Arlo Pros and the Essentials do not conflict with each other. Everything works Great. Good Luck

There is a software issue that can brick these cameras…
There is some combination of settings I use in their app that will brick these cameras permanently with no ability to factory reset. I haven’t figured out which combination of settings it is, but it seems that it might just be safer to keep the cameras at their out-of-the-box settings if you want to avoid bricking the product. This is garbage coding by the manufacturer. It’s easy enough to return a new one, but you are out of luck (and money) if you brick an older one. Pretty cool business model to place a trap door in your firmware code that forces people to buy your product again.EDIT: figured out the trick to re-syncing these when you get stuck with the blue light long flash. What’s happening is that when you have gone into the app and removed the camera, it can no longer connect to your wi-fi. The issue is that it is STILL creating and trying to upload recordings nonetheless. When you go to perform the reset and reconnect steps they wont work because you are handling the camera and generating new recordings by creating motion. The trick is to: 1. Make sure the camera is fully charged. 2. Set the camera on a shelf in a well-lit room, facing a static scene like a wall or at objects that will have no motion from things like shadows, movement or lights being turned on/off. Leave it here for whatever amount of time it needs to complete trying to record/upload. Wait until the long blue light flash stops plus some time for good measure. 3. Press the pair button on the camera for 3 seconds but do so while holding the camera perfectly still and not generating a shadow in the view of the camera – all of this while facing the static scene you created. This should give you the fast blue light flash we need. 4. start the “add device” process in the app. 5. the add device process will tell you this device has been previously paired and needs to be reset. 6. press the pair button on the camera again, this time for 15-20 seconds (or until you see an amber light flashing) – again, hold the camera perfectly still. 7. Wait until the amber light stops flashing, then press the pair button again to get the fast blue light flash. 8. tell the app to attempt to connect to the device again. This time the app should find the camera. 9. in my case, the app froze when attempting to name the camera. If this happens, close/terminate the app. Re-open the app and go into the settings for the camera you just successfully added. It will have an error message that “onboarding must be completed”, click that and complete the rest of the setup if necessary.What a farce. This company needs to fire their developers and bring on new people to improve this code/logic.

tres bon produit que je connais

It’s a bit slow sometimes but love it so far

Took 3 weeks to get to me 2 weeks longer than anticipated and previous Arlo order and I my car as broken into infront of where the camera was due to be positioned 2 days before I got it