Bought this same system 6 months back from Woot. After your free 3 month subscription for cloud monitoring ended, Arlo began sending me multiple e-mails to buy a $9.95 monthly plan even though I select to use their base station for memory. The Arlo review of your backed up videos will slow down to a crawl after the 90 day review period ends unless you buy their cloud package. The Blink system is much easier to operate, faster and comes without all these annoying nanny-grams pushing a cloud service. I’m seriously considering flipping this Arlo system on eBay now just to rid myself of all their never ending and unstoppable PR crapola that comes with the purchase.
I have a 5 camera arlo system and a nest system in two homes. The arlo is actually much easier to use and much more consistent. Good resolution and i get fairly instant alerts to people on my property. Nest false alarms MUCH more often
Only system I know of where you can still get “7 days of free cloud HD video recordings.” Every other system I know requires a subscription, yearly or monthly. Even Arlo’s next-generation system requires a subscription now, too.
I have this system that I bought retail years ago, and I can tell you I still have “7 days of free cloud HD video recordings” with it. It works great, and I have no troubles with the wireless aspect of it. Their app is “okay” - it works fine, but has weird session quirk where it logs you in, but then says you’re not logged in and have to re-validate … And the forced 2FA interferes with home automation system. They do not have any OAuth options for your automated systems.
It does work with Homekit, at least my bridge does (1st Gen).
Can you pull up the feed and have it be continuous? With the blink system you have to keep hitting this connect for it to continuously show a feed.
Are you talking viewing live from your phone? I would imagine that it times out.
I have Arlo at home and Blink in my RV. Although the Blink system is much cheaper than Arlo, their pics are not as crisp as Arlo IMHO. The Blink app also requires you to continue to click on the screen after a few seconds to continue to watch live(very annoying). For me, Arlo is a better system but you have to be willing and able to work on/understand your own network and research your own kinks; It is my understanding that their customer service is very busy.
Mine doesn’t time out as long as you have it in your open screen on your phone/tablet. As soon as I open another screen, it stops live view.