Netgear VMS4330P (3 Camera System)

5 STAR SYSTEM - HIGHLY RECOMMEND – Had previously bought Swann wifi cameras that were useless. Arlo pro 2 far superior in pairing, setting, app and functionality. Have a 600m2 house and yard and all three cameras work most excellently. Show details

Excellent for us – Excellent system. Easy to set up. We brought it to install in our home as we don’t live there all the time so love the ease of the app being able to keep an eye on it. Great battery life. We got 6 months between charges. Great resolution too. Recommend to anyone. Show details

Happy with our purchase – We've had our Arlo Pro 2 with 3 cameras for 2 months now and we're pretty happy with them. They were easy to set up and have worked well for us so far. Both motion and audio detection work fine. We get an email notification within a couple of seconds of motion detection. The recording is visible on our phone right after it stops recording. You… Read more

can specify a duration to record (up to 120 seconds) upon motion detection or specify that recording stops after activity stops which is a max of 300 seconds.

Night vision is pretty good even in darkness. We are able to speak to the person at the camera from our phone. Sensitivity to motion or audio detection can be adjusted which we found useful. Free cloud storage is great. Loved that the cameras are portable.

Battery life seems to be pretty good. Two of the cameras are still at 50% from the first charge. The third camera had to be recharged after the first month as the motion sensor triggered much recording by plants moving in the wind and us walking past. The camera can be easily turned off from our phones if we are in its line of sight but we often forget to do that.

Tried to mount a camera on the ceiling and accidentally dropped it (from ceiling height). Thought it was the end of that unit but it still worked perfectly fine after that!

Initially, the cameras seemed to go offline every now and then but we found that what we needed to do was simply to log off and on again on our phone and they would be fine. This problem has however ceased to happen after a while, no idea why.

Almost 4 years later...

We are still happy with our Arlo Pro 2! After almost 4 years, the batteries are still pretty good. We didn't start to use geofencing until recently and we find this helps to reduce recording of ourselves walking around. We have a cheap manual doorbell and use one of the cameras to start recording based on audio instead of motion (ie. when the doorbell sounds). Has worked fine. So, didn't need to buy a separate digital doorbell that costs about $300.

We now need some extra cameras and are looking at buying some add-on ones but Pro 2 is now discontinued and with Pro 3 onwards, it seems you will be forced to pay a monthly subscription otherwise you can't do any recording. What a shame! We're looking at other brands now... Arlo, I think you shot yourself in the foot.

A little over 6 years now...

Still using and still happy with our Arlo Pro 2. It's been discontinued but we managed to buy two pre-owned cameras to add on to our system.

DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT – This is possibly the worst camera I have ever purchased. While the battery life is good, this would be about its only benefit. The Lag on these cameras is absolutely disgusting. I will have a courier come to the door, have me sign and collect it, ask how their day is and the camera has still not notified me. The lag on this is typically a good 2… Read more

minutes or more. What is the point in having security cameras when someone can come and go before you're even aware there is anything going on. Really disappointed with this product and wont be considering Netgear again for any security purchases. I'm going straight to FairTrade for a full refund.

Cameras are OK but the app is terrible and there is NO SUPPORT – I am writing this review now as I am sick of waiting for solutions from ARLO. I initially thought the cameras were easy to install and had a good quality image but many problems viewing the data have appeared and keep getting worse but there is no way to get any real technical help. The app has many issues especially on PC when you need to view… Read more

large images. The app relies on the "Flash" plugin which is unsupported by many WEB browsers and every attempt at getting flash to work with ARLO on all our computers fails, yet flash with other sites works fine. This same issue has been raised by hundreds of users in the forums. The app has also stopped recording motion activated events after just 2 months without any instruction from us. We have reset all the geo-fencing and schedules without success. With all the problems I have tried the support "chat" which just does not function at all, the forum where you just get bad advice, bad attitude and no solutions, emails and phone calls. After venting my frustration at all the failures I was promised that an ARLO support agent would contact me and of course after several weeks have still heard nothing.

It’s just ok – Received my pro 2 / 3 camera last week , it say detect movement, even I select 100% active And still not work like 100% . 5 out of 10 can detect movement .

Just okay – Summary: Slow, clunky, full of false motion triggers, audio too slow to be useful. Could be better. It works as advertised but is soooooo slow and sluggish. Doing just about anything, with good internet speeds is so slow. Periodically, it even tells you your devices is offline when you first open the app, and finally refreshes after a good 2-3… Read more

minutes and decides it is actually not offline after all.

It's motion sensing is also a mixed bag. It's good when it works but I do get lots of false positives even when I drop the sensitivity quite a fair bit. Now I'm not sure if I've dropped it too much either. The infared cameras don't work too well at night when you've say placed it against the wall because the wall would be brightly visible (infared) but everything else is pitched black dark. You can turn up the brightness but for some reason there's no auto setting, which means during the daytime the full brightness video has it's highlights completely overblown and nothing can be seen through the video.

Even if you zoom the video in, the exposure does not adjust only for the zoomed in area. Worst of all, it does NOT give you a notification if it goes offline - e.g. someone turning off the main power to the entire house will not trigger a notification for whatever reason. Could be better. But works often enough. There will be a time when just good enough isn't good enough anymore when a competitor comes up with a better solution.

Time will tell- so far so good – Originally purchased a Swann 1080P wireless 4 camera set-up, hard to set-up, app not user friendly,would only download on my phone and not my husbands, can only view on phones-not on desktop, when update was done camera screens went silly, returned and purchased this one, so much easier to set-up, app is user friendly, easy to load onto more than… Read more

one phone, sends email notification (so you can view cameras on your desktop computer) as well as to your phone. So far so good but time will tell. Would definitely recommend this brand over Swann, even though more expensive, think it will be worth it.

Wireless made easy – The netgear arlo system works great. Was relatively easy to set up compared to previous ive set up. Night quality is pretty good. wifi connection is good with range aswell. Not a huge range of accessories available in AU/NZ. Not impressed that to set up Zones you need to have a constant power supply to the camera. you cannot buy the plug in cable for the Arlo in Australia and i had to purchase this from eBay.

Needs Upload speed of at least 100MPS!! – Why oh why are things as obvious as that not disclosed on the packaging/advertising blurb??!! We have wireless NBN here, and it's not too shabby speed-wise I might add. Didn't know about this requirement until we were getting lags and jolty video with excessive buffering. After trying to troubleshoot, we found it hidden away in the on-line specs… Read more

somewhere. Thanks for that! Did a speed test to find our connection was only uploading in the 90's. If you are on wireless only, or an otherwise marginal connection, stand by to be underwhelmed. Another reviewer on here has found similar results in their review. I'm led to believe that retrieved video from the cloud doesn't suffer from the jolty-ness ... have to take their word for it!!

The install is simple, and relatively quick. You only get a quick-start guide with the pack ... a more comprehensive manual is available on-line. This seems to be the norm these days though.

The cameras appear of good quality, with an ingenious mounting system. They use decent proprietary lithium cells that are said to work for up to 6 months ... probably when set to lowest quality. Been in here set at optimum for 3 weeks, and are currently showing remaining capacities of 50-76%, so this may or may not be achievable. They can also be plugged in to mains power, and this opens up the additional feature of recording the few seconds prior to a trigger being activated ,,, I imagine you would need to purchase separate leads to allow this feature should you require it. Batteries are recharged by wiring the cam unit into a USB outlet ... easily done.

You can customise notifications to come as either e'mails or "pushes" (with is apparently trendy speak for a notification to your linked smartphone). Each camera can have its sensitivities adjusted, and each records video and audio. You can even use the sets as intercoms, with ability to speak out the camera unit ... so long as you have lightning fast internet ... of course. Otherwise the person you're trying to speak to has probably left 3 minutes ago (or more)!!!

You can set the install to continuously record, with many combinations and rules for what to do when one camera is triggered, for example. Or you can simply view the cameras outputs at any time using either linked smartphone or remote internet access. You can do this whether they're set to continuous recording or not. When using this "live view" feature you can take a photo or manually commence recording at any time.

Your purchase entitles you to complimentary online cloud based storage for a week, with over-riding of the older files then happening thenceforth. You can purchase more comprehensive storage plans if you require - say if you're absent for months at a time, and need to review surveillance for longer periods. Retrieval of recorded data is dead easy, and is available via calendar based menu selection by individual camera, with thumbnail previews/selection.

You can customise recording schedules, and there is also a "geofencing" option which disarms certain cameras when you're present so they don't simply record you .... this presence is sensed via your smartphone. In our application here, we don't use these additional features ... all we need is continuous recording ... so I can't offer any thoughts on their performance.

The output quality is excellent in daytime, and marginal at night. As the other reviewer mentioned above pointed out though, the industry generally has a little way to go before night time recording improves to any great extent. Camera sensitivities seem pretty accurate, and the trigger zones are commendable. Maximum range from the base station is said to be 90M ... but this is heavily influenced by impeding structures. All our cams are showing a link strength of 2 out of 3 bars, despite one being just 8 metres from the base, and another being 40. Although to be fair, this distal cam does show a strength of 1 out of 3 from time to time.

The smartphone interface is well laid out and user friendly, but not all functions are intuitive, and some are actually incorrect. See the next paragraph!!

As with many other products these days, the good quality hardware's let down a little by lacklustre software sets. At one point what the manual (and the company's online support file) says is not what happens whatsoever when a particular button is pressed. Thankfully the issue I was trying to solve was easily rectified by referring to the substantial on-line community troubleshooting feature.

These cameras fill a useful niche in that nether-zone between hardwired Vs WiFi Vs 3G/4G trail cams with their mobile network pathways, and are in fact more attractively priced than the 4G trail cams. However there's the downside that you need mains power in the case of the Arlo's whereas the trail cams are completely stand alone. In our application we have a combination of the technologies to cover areas out in the paddock beyond the reach or the Arlo's ... horses for courses.

The Arlo Pro does what we need ... but as with most things, it's aimed fairly and squarely at those with superfast uploads ... in other words those in metropolitan areas!! SIGH!!