Arlo Ultra - 4K UHD Wire-Free Security 3 Camera System | Indoor/Outdoor with Color Night Vision, 180° View, 2-Way Audio, Spotlight, Siren | Compatible with Alexa and Homekit | (VMS534) (Renewed)

I'm coming off of a frustration of trying to get Amcrest cams to work with the Synology NAS. After beating my head against the wall trying to get it all to work, I gave up 2 weeks ago. Frustrated with trying to keep the wireless cams online, I yanked them and threw them in the garbage (literally). I purchased a Pro 3 and a Pro 2 separately along with the Ultra Smarthub to start off. Kind of sticking my toe in the water, I ran this for a week. Setup was ridiculously simple. Not over stating either. Performance exceeded my expectation by a lot. The big issue for people is loading speed. I'll just say before I had the Amcrest WiFi I had Ring which was even more frustrating. Not a good experience at all. Really long load times or just hanging. So far with Arlo, I can trace every issue directly to something on my network. I added 2 more Pro 3's just to make sure I wasn't just experiencing an anomoly. The network can keep up with the cameras no problem. Snappy response to load. Does Arlo ever hang or slow perform. ABSOLUTLEY! But very very infrequently once you get clean WIFI. Move that router as far as you can from the Arlo HUB. Remember, Arlo uses it's own little private network, so you just need to provide the hub with clear wired connectivity. Also make sure your cameras have as much unobstructed path to the hub. I have a Camera on the other side of my 3,000 square foot house. I have 4 bars. I added the Ultra to my now 5 camera set up. Wow! Even more gorgeous! Great Cam, field of view is amazing, covers my whole front house including the porch. I would recommend to a friend. I do have to be honest, the Pro 2 is very very disappoining. Color bleeding is bad at night. Night vision is pretty much unusable. I bought all my cameras but one refurbished. No issues at all, perfectly packed with all accessories. All pieces came EARLY. yea!!! I absolutely love this system so far!!!!

Very easy to setup and use. Very pricey though. Image quality is top notch in both day and night settings, and the microphone feature isn’t too bad. The siren is a joke though. The app has enough features to do everything you need and pretty user friendly. The only downside I am experiencing is limited range for a small house. Also, recommend using a power cord whenever possible to enable all features, or at the very least a solar charger to keep it topped off. With normal traffic through my house the batteries die in less than a month.

1. It's not reliable. When someone comes to your place, there is a way to jam the signal to make your cameras blinded. 2. Often time, the images aren't stable; blurry, or skipped and you can't see what's the details of the images. The Arlo "4K" is a joke. It only can record on the slow objects and barely see the clear people's face or car's license plate. For the normal speed object passing by, you will not be able to see anything clearly even what kind of car. 3. Storage can be stored in the local USB flash drive, but each time, when you want to see the image; you will have to download it and the download speed depends on your wifi network. Otherwise, you will have to pay monthly subscription fee. I have raised download issue when store the images in local USB flash drive since August of 2021 and so far, it's not resolved or nothing is fixed. 4. If for some reason, one of the cameras got disconnected, you will have to re-sync with the base station. Also, it depends on where the cameras were installed. You will have to get a ladder to get each of them to re-sync. It's a huge hassle. 5. Tech support has no phone # support since Sept of 2021. All the support has to go through Arlo app and there's no way to hold any support team. Plus, the support folks are very slow to response to your questions and oftentimes the reply isn't relevant. You are going to spend a lot of time on your questions. You will be told there are someone will call you back or reply back. But you don't know when it's going to be. 6. Spot light is useless. It's too weak. It's even worse than the night vision on the infrared light image. 7. Motion detection is very slow sometimes. When a car of person passing by, Oftentime it only catches the last a couple of seconds and most of the time; camera has no reaction even a "zone" area was defined.

The camera quality at 4K resolution is amazing! Easy installation. Connects right away with Smarthub. The only reason I didn’t give this product 5 stars is the app. The Arlo app is easy to use but could use a few updates to allow more customization. For example, when the camera picks up motion it begins to record but automatically stops after a few seconds. I wish there was an option to keep recording for an additional 30 seconds, 1 minute, etc. after picking up motion, person or animal. Another option that would be nice is if the camera could pick up video a few seconds before the motion (even if it doesn’t capture sound). Even older model DIVR/MVRs security cameras have this feature. With that said, it’s a sold camera system and I would recommend to anyone friends and family alike.

I kicked out my Apple Home Kit and replaced it with Arlo. I'm pretty impressed with how easy it was to unbox and connect my set of three Ultras to my network, and get them up and running. The picture quality on the 4k cameras is excellent. The settings within the app are very robust and the fact that they "play well" with my existing Amazon Echo system makes it a fantastic pairing for total home security. The batteries onboard each camera are long-lasting and easy to recharge. Don't hesitate to get yourself a set of Ultras!