Arlo has long been my preferred network camera, handily besting the likes of Nest due to a generous free tier of service and unrivaled placement flexibility — weather-proof, battery-powered, and wireless. Well, Netgear has just upped the ante with the Arlo Pro line of cameras. In addition to what sounds like generally improved optics (and now audio) to possibly match the Arlo Q model, the two new features that have me contemplating an upgrade are rechargeable batteries (supposedly good for 6 months) and USB video storage. However, these refinements do come at a cost. Whereas my original Arlo 4-pack ran $500, the equivalent Pro bundle goes for $650. It seems I could add enhanced Pro cameras to my current config, but local storage does require the new hub.
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Do the Arlo Pros support PoE? Any experience with 3rd party app support that may be geared toward more specific use-cases such as baby monitoring?
Yeah, the new hub adds local storage and a Siren. Way too many false alarms for me to ever want a Siren, but the local storage would be nice. I literally just bought into Arlo 1 week ago (Great 2 camera/base station Costco deal), but I'm ok with just adding a few pro cameras to my setup and forgoing the siren and local storage, for now. I was going to add 2 more cameras anyway, so now they will be Pros instead of the old ones.
My biggest complaint about the Arlo wireless cameras is how long they take to start recording after a motion is detected. I'm hoping the new Pro camera's address that with a better motion sensor.
Brian,
They (Arlo Pros) do NOT support POE because they do not support being wired. The new pros have a mini USB for charging, OR for continuous power, but the data connection is always wireless.
If you want to go with POE, the Arlo Q does support POE.