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5.0 out of 5 starsAfter HOURS & HOURS of Research...this is the WINNER!
Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2018
I wanted to review this because I felt like reviews on ALL of the baby monitors out there is what helped me the most and I feel like this Monitor doesn't have the reviews it should. My son is 5 months old now...this is our second monitor. The first broke within the first month of him being with us and I did so much research to get to that one, I was so disappointed when I had to go through the process AGAIN. We received a credit for our other broken monitor and paid additional money out of our pocket to get the Netgear Arlo and it was SO worth it. WE are glad our first one broke (Project Nursery for anyone who would like to know...DO NOT DO IT)
It was super easy set up..self explanatory if you read the directions (READ the directions).
It has a battery/travel mode which is A M A Z I N G. It is not STUCK in the nursery on a chord. You can unplug and take it wherever he is. If he is in his swing napping in the family room, you can keep an eye on him without having to move a chord and plug it in and reset it up BLAH BLAH BLAH. Just plop it in front of him and go about your cleaning. The battery life is LONG. I work from home, so we utilize this feature often just trying to keep him happy throughout the day while I work. Hours of battery life with constant viewing. The chord it came with to charge the netgear Arlo is SUPER long also and we love it. It is so important.
Next, the Wifi connection...we have two different speed wifi networks...a 5 Ghz and a 2.5 I believe. His bedroom is close enough to my desktop and modem to connect the camera to the faster network which loses strength quick because it is not meant to be a signal you get throughout the house (primarily used for a desktop computer IN the office)....with that being said...it goes ACROSS the house, on this 5 Ghz network with very low strength and we have never experienced signal loss....not ONCE. We have only experienced delay, which is common in Wifi Monitors, but this delay is seconds at most.
The Arlo app, love that it is on ALL platforms possible. I can log in on my computer through the web browser, I can log on my iPhone AND we actually bought a HD Fire Tablet, downloaded the app through Amazon on IT and we use that as our baby monitor....its amazing and you're not constantly having to use your phone as the only way to view the camera while also trying to scroll through Facebook and answer the 10 messages you ignored from earlier all while trying to keep an eye on your baby. Sold. The app is user friendly. I figured how to turn the status light off on the camera at 3 AM, sleep deprived. If I can do it, so can you. And I mean, you can turn the obnoxious light on the camera OFF...did you catch that? No sticky not over it so it doesn't wake your baby who is so easily distracted and fighting sleep.
Next, the features ON the camera itself....it plays lullaby's...didn't think we would use this feature, but every now and then we do. Their is a night light on the camera also, you can turn it on by the app or a button on the side of the camera...nice feature when you're hunting down the paci that just launched across the room. It has the talk feature...its more used to yell at your dog to stop that or Husband to tell him he is doing it wrong from the other room (totally kidding..not)..I am sure this feature will be more handy as he gets older. The one feature I thought I would miss from our other camera was the 360 panning. The ability to move the camera where you want BUT this camera has a wide angle lens and if you set it up to view the largest angle...I can literally get wall to wall in his nursery. It is PERFECT. The image quality is insane. I never thought a baby camera would be this clear. I can snap photos and record videos of my child being cute. It also tracks temp and humidity...I find it not 100% accurate. I think it picks up a lot of heat the camera itself puts off, but again, not a deal breaker to me.
I think I officially covered everything about the camera and hopes this helps someone's search. You will have positives and negatives to all camera's...that is just electronics, BUT if you have decent Wifi this will be great. I can check in on my child when ever I am not home and that gives me so much peace of mind.