Replaced our Arlo system and this is great. No batteries! Crystal clear, great interface.

Just unboxed and installed batteries works great, but 1 bulb is defective and does not work.

great camera one of the batteries was defective when i got it

I love this camera. I actually bought a Blink camera first, then quickly returned it and got an Arlo. Much happier with the quality of Arlo, but kind of down about the battery life. I'm sure after playing with some settings I will be able to extend it. Thanks Arlo!

One of the cameras stopped working after less than 5 months. I initially thought the camera had issues and was consuming too much power. But later I found out that one of the lithium batteries was defective. The multimeter measured a voltage of 0 (zero) while the other battery in the same camera has a normal voltage of 1.7v. Those are the Energizer batteries which came with the camera and Blink was able to send me replacement batteries after contacting them. I ordered a 5-pack camera so it came with 10 Energizer batteries. This is a defective rate of 10% for the batteries which is quite high. But check the batteries first if the camera runs out of batteries too quickly. Perhaps the lithium batteries are not as reliable as the typical alkaline batteries, but they do last longer if they are not defective.Otherwise, the cameras work fine for the most part. Sometimes it takes a few tries to see live view from the Blink app, but we can't compare that with how responsive wired cameras are. After all, it saved me the trouble and cost of running cables to connect all these cameras. What I like the most is that you are able to save all motion videos to the sync module by connecting a hard drive / USB thumb drive to it, without paying any monthly subscription fee. The Blink app allows you to view the saved videos on your hard drive on the go, which is very handy.

I just added an Arlo Essential Spotlight Camera to my existing Arlo system. Easy install.

My package arrived ahead of schedule. It was very easy to setup. One issue was that the batteries were very low and died withion an hour of powering the camera up. The web portal provided by Netgear was easy to navigate to set up Arlo and I configured an email address to get alert updates. Before I could fully test it out I received the following email alert...Your Arlo camera is running low on power. It’s time to replace the batteries in: 1%You’ve still got a little juice left, but in order to maintain uninterrupted peace of mind, we recommend installing new batteries as soon as you can.In the meantime, thanks for being a member of the Arlo family!The batteries are expensive to replace and rather than ship back the entire order via Amazon and wait another week. I decided to go and purchase fresh, new batteries which I was not at all happy doing, to just get it up, tested and running.

For the price, you can't go wrong! The quality surpasses Arlo and does not require replacing costly batteries!