the Arlo Pro 3
Hi, folks. This is Gabe at Security Baron, and Arlo isback at again bringing you some 2K action. Today, weâre checking out the Arlo Pro 3. [background music] Gabe: In todayâs review of the Arlo Pro 3,weâre going to go over some pros and cons, its design, its feature set, the installation,and mobile app experience before answering some common questions and letting you knowwho we think this device is for. If you want to see the full details on theArlo Pro 3 and check out some smart home integrations, head over to securitybaron.com. Letâs kick off our review of the Arlo Pro3 going over some pros and cons, beginning with the pros, beginning with that video quality. It can record it up to 2K but even the 1080looks solid on whatever device you happen to be using.best home outdoor wireless security cameraÂ
That 2K is gorgeous, really clear and youalso get 160-degree field of view HDR. Itâs just really bring in the heat. Now that extends to its night vision whereit ups the ante with having a surprisingly solid vision with just two infrared LEDs. If you add on that spotlight it gets evenbetter where you have this color night vision that makes it seem almost as if the middleof the night is as clear as day. Weâre really impressed with the video qualityelement in that way. Beyond that, you have the wireless elementof the Arlo Pro 3 and the durability. That means you can place it both indoors andoutdoors. Itâs weather resistant and you can handlesun, snow, sleet, rain, you name it and still work really well to make sure youâre capturingeverything thatâs taking place in your home or outside of it. When it comes to cons to Arlo Pro 3, I thinkthe issue of 2K is really representative of the overall experience. We had issues getting the 2K to work initiallyand we never essentially got the 2K to work when it comes to manual recording. That was an issue that to do with the faultyhub and a mobile application that is not always the most intuitive. Overall, yes, I think that Arlo has a lotof depth, a lot of robust features that you can really dive deeply into, but itâs justnot effortless in terms of getting to them like weâve seen with some of the other camerason the market. [music] Gabe: Now that weâve gone over the pros andcons, letâs talk about the design on the Arlo Pro 3 in which Iâm actually a really big fan. The Arlo Pro 3 is the first one that weâvegotten in the nice black, but it isnât really glossy black. Youâre definitely going to get your fingerprintson it, but just a really solid looking device, really sleek, really elegant. When it comes to mounting, it has a lot ofoptions. You can, of course, thread as in mount intothe back of the device itself, but we like this nice little magnetic mount that givesyou a lot of flexibility. You can put it in a lot of different ways,itâs just going to work for you. Itâs really strong and if you donât want tohave that on for a moment, you can take it off, you can place it simply down, somethinglike this. Youâre wondering, âHow do I charge this device?â Really easy to put that initial battery in,but actually once you have your battery inside and have this thing set up, you can closethis and really never open it again, because there is a magnetic mount on the bottom ofthe device. Youâre thinking, âI hope I donât have to unscreweverything each time that I want to charge it.â You donât. Take it off the magnet, take your magneticcharger, and voila, youâre ready to go. Thatâs it, you charge it, give it a few hours,and youâre good for another few months. Note that you also have the Smart Hub. The Smart Hub itself has gotten a bit of anupgrade since the Arlo Pro 2. Itâs also nice and sleek, itâs thinner, ithas a good look to it. It will basically blend into anyoneâs homedecor, itâs in that nice white with your Arlo insignia, and you get this nice little LEDlight to know when itâs on and off. The final element Iâll talk about with yourArlo Pro 3 itself is the fact that itâs almost completely flush. You have your lens, youâve got microphone,speaker, and you have your spotlight. This is a pretty thin spotlight thatâs bringinga lot of light. Itâs going to be really bright with just thislittle bit here. Overall, big fan of not only the design onthe Arlo Pro 3, but the Arlo Smart Hub. [music] Gabe: Hold on. I hope youâre enjoying todayâs review of theArlo Pro 3. If you want to be kept up to date on the newestin smart home security cameras, smart home security in general, cybersecurity, bluetoothtrackers, and more, subscribe to our channel, Security Baron. Weâre dropping new content weekly. Letâs get back to the video. [music] Gabe: Now that weâve gone over the pros andcons and the design of the Arlo Pro 3, letâs talk about its feature set, beginning withthat video quality. It can capture motion events in 2K and itjust looks amazing. Itâs capturing things in 2K with a 160-degreefield of view, HDR, and itâs just got a really lovely crisp and clear video quality to it. It even means that it can do that in nightvision, where we have a solid infrared LED perspective that can be enhanced by colornight vision with the spotlight that comes equipped on your Arlo Pro 3, allowing youto see things in the middle of the night in that nice vivid color perspective. This clarity with the Arlo Pro 3 extends tothe audio experience.best home outdoor wireless security cameraÂ
I was able to have really clear conversationswith people on the other side. It has a microphone and a speaker embeddedinside of it. In terms of the conversation capacity or capability,itâs really high with the Arlo Pro 3. Automated Voice: I can hear you. Sounds good. Sounds good. Gabe: When it comes to saving these audio/videoclips, you have a few different options with your Arlo Pro 3, including local storage withyour Arlo Smart Hub. You can install a SD card, up to 128 GB, whichwill allow for you to save those directly to your Smart Hub itself. Additionally, you can get the cloud storagewith your Arlo Pro 3 in an Arlo Smart Plan. Fortunately, you do get three months of theArlo Smart Plan for free whenever you buy your Arlo Pro 3. One thing to note about the Arlo Pro 3 andArlo Smart Plan is that itâs going to give you 30 daysâ video history, basically anysmart plan. The real key here is you get a number of advancedfeatures as well. There are multiple offerings that can geta bit complicated. For full details, go check it out at securitybaron.com. Letâs talk about some of those advanced features,like activity zones. In addition to motion sensitivity that canbe adjusted within the app, you can also set up activity zones that will only give youa motion alert when it detects motion in those particular spaces that youâre looking for. I can build my own in the app, multiple, multipleactivity zones. What types of motion can it distinguish between? This is where that artificial intelligencecomes into play. The Arlo Pro 3 is capable of distinguishingbetween people and animals and vehicles. It even has some degree of package detection,which is pretty impressive. The Arlo Pro 3 also integrates with the twomajor smart platforms out there â Amazon and Google. I can use my voice and the linking of my Arloand Google and Amazon Virtual Assistant to watch my footage wherever I want. I can send a live stream to something likemy Google Chromecast just using my voice. Overall, the Arlo Pro 3 is really great, anice, robust and deep feature set to the home security camera game. [music] Gabe: Now that weâve covered the feature setwith the Arlo Pro 3, letâs talk about the installation process. Here, Iâve got somewhat mixed feelings. When it comes to installing the device,
best home outdoor wireless security camera itâspretty straightforward. Youâre going to have your Smart Hub done first. Plug in your Ethernet cable, plug in yourpower adapter. Once thatâs up and set, youâre going to gothrough the process with your Arlo Pro 3. Youâre going to be navigating it using themobile application. Make sure your battery is charged here atthe bottom. Boom. Youâre done. You can probably be finished in a matter ofminutes, with adding any extra time deciding if you want to mount your magnetic mount outdoors,indoors, wherever you decide to put it. Overall, that part of the process is prettystraightforward. Where we ran into issues is when it comesto making sure you get the full capacity of your Arlo Pro 3. Remember, this is a 2K device. In order to get that 2K, you have to makesure, for one, youâre on the most recent version of the Arlo Smart Hub. We had one of those because we had the ArloUltra. However, we found out that our version wasfaulty. It took a long conversation with Arlo to finallycome to that conclusion, and then we had to get a replacement. Of course, to get the 2K recording, you haveto ensure that you have an SD card installed here at the bottom. Overall, that entire process took a littlebit longer than we think it needed to. It is a really important part of getting thefull capability out of your Arlo Pro 3. Otherwise, very straightforward, easy setupwith your Arlo Pro 3. [music] Gabe: Now that weâve got our Arlo Pro 3 installed,letâs check out its mobile application, the Arlo app Generally speaking, people seem to have agood experience with it. It has a 4.5 in the Apple App Store and a3.8 in the Google Play Store. Letâs go ahead and check it out on my iPhone7 Plus. Here I am, checking out the Arlo Pro 3 inthe Arlo mobile application. Letâs go ahead and jump directly into thatlive stream. You note that it takes a minute to jump intothe live stream. Itâs not immediate. Even now that weâre in the live stream, theredoes seem to be a delay. Thereâs a lag on what happens thatâs a littlebit longer, Iâd say about four to five seconds at times, than many of the competitors. You also note that weâre not actually streamingin 2K. This is not a 2K-enabled device, but evensometimes when Iâm on 2K-capable devices, we noted that it did not actually give usthat live stream in 2K. Youâll see there are a number of icons atthe bottom. I have the speaker on the bottom left. Iâve got the microphone for two-way talk. Iâve got the ability to take a snapshot, turnon that spotlight in the far right-hand bottom corner, and then I can just record. You see here, Iâm recording now, and thisis a pretty useful element. You can record that live stream. One thing we want to note as weâre recordingthis live stream, is that we have had issues with it actually recording live stream, somanual recording in 2K. It does do motion detection, things of thatnature in 2K, but in our personal experience, it would not actually do live recordings in2K no matter which device we happen to be using. Letâs go ahead and look at our event history,and just look at our history in our library. Go down to the bottom and you see here, nowwe have our manual recording that we just did. Weâve got various motion recordings in 2Kthat it was capable of doing. If you look at the top, we have a history,so I can go to the 15th, go to the 14th. I got package options. I got 18th, 19th. You can just look at a host of different thingsgoing on here. If you look at the filter in the top, youcan actually filter by the type of notification â people, vehicle, animal, package, smokealarms, motion alarms, audio â which is really useful. If we were to go to today, letâs just sayI wanted to download this 2K motion detection. I can watch it here. You can see me blowing out. [laughs] I can download the video directlyto this device. I can share it. I can send this video off to someone Iâd liketo through message, or email, or shared album. It is great that you do have the ability tocontrol your recordings pretty quickly and easily. Now we can jump back out of that. Letâs go ahead and check out some of theseother elements of the Arlo Pro 3, beginning by just looking at the video settings. Of course, when youâre in the device settings,youâll note that it has the ability to tell you how much battery life you have. It tells you which Smart Hub youâre connectedto. If you go into your motion detection setting,this actually allows you to decide how sensitive you want your cameras to be. This is one element that typically is notunder something called âdevice utilitiesâ in a mobile application, so it did take usa little while, initially, to find out exactly where to find these elements of controllingour Arlo Pro 3. Low, medium, and high are your options. Letâs go check out some of our video settings. 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