After all the great CNET and other reviews, I thought I'd try a couple - been a Nest user for yrs, but was attracted to the picture quality of the Arlo, and I had two Nest outdoor cameras I thought could use replacing. IT'S ALMOST CRIMINAL WHAT ISN'T SHARED WITH YOU ABOUT OPERATING ARLO CAMERAS!! I NEVER would have bought these. ALL of you potential buyers out there, beware, they may very well not work for your needs, as we have all been spoiled at how other similar security operating systems work. Shame on CNET and others for missing this HUGE difference between Arlo and nearly ALL OTHER similar security cameras, or not stating these issues if they had discovered them. At home, in my office, I have 4 8inchSamsung tablets placed on a vertical holding stand on my dest. I have 4 outdoor NEST cameras situated such that I can live-monitor events occuring around my home (I live on a corner), like where the kids are playing, cars driving up and down my street, when someone parks in front of the house or driveway for a visit, package delivery, etc. Each tablet streams in a feed from one of the different 4 Nest cameras, so simultaneously I get a nice large outdoor picture from almost all the way around my home. I bought two Arlo Pro 4s, replaced 2 of the Nest cameras, and set up the first camera. Picture is nice, it streams well. HOWEVER, I placed it such that as a car is driving down the street - or people are walking down the sidewalk - when the Nest camera loses footage because the people walk out of the picture range of view, the Arlo picks them up as they walk into the next stage of sidewalk. As they move out of the Arlo range of view, by camera placement the group is picked up by the next Nest camera. Now, whereas the Nest cameras always smoothly and seamlessly picked up the people walking from one camera's range of view to the next camera, over the course of a very short time, the Arlo became further and further delayed in showing the people (lag). In other words, as they leave the Nest picture, they don't appear on the Arlo camera until later and later. SUCH THAT, after an hour, it became such that as the people left the Nest picture the Arlo camera didn't display them for almost 20 - 30 seconds. Heck, the walkers would leave Nest 1 live-feed picture, then I'd see nothing until they entered the third camera in line (Nest 2) The Arlo didn't show the walkers until after they were already down the street past my home! I tried several things, reducing picture quality, turning off the recording feature. Then I'd turn the camera off, then on again to reset. Initially, the camera would come on near-real-time again, but each time (and I did this multiple times)...each time the same issue took place. Longer and longer delays in picking up and displaying the event. But that's not even the worst of it - Arlo purposely designed it such that we are all unable to watch more than one camera at a time!! I even called to have them explain this to me. For example, if I have the Arlo picture up on the tablet, IF I attempt to call up the Arlo camera on my phone, it auromatically logs off of the tablet and logs me into the phone. I cannot use the phone and the tablet at the same time!! AND, I cannot stream one camera to a tablet, and a second Arlo camera to a different table to use them simultaneously. They DESIGNED IT THAT WAY! The support person stated I would (seriously, follow me on this) have to create different email accounts for each different device I would want to use. Then, go to settings and grant permission for each of those new email accounts (each different user I just invented). Each device would need to sign into Arlo with a different email account, and then THAT device can see a feed. The support person suggested I use the Arlo page which shows little (I mean little) feed shots of all the Arlo cameras at once. There is no detail in those! I would need an 80inch monitor to make out any usable details of those little feed pictures. I COULD have created multiple email accounts and then try to remember which table or phone was signed into which new fictitious email account I created, but that plus the HORRIBLE lag time is too much. I'm going to the NEST battery outdoor camera. Yes, 1080P isn't 2K or 4K, but at least there is no lag and I can use as many nest cameras on as many devices that I want. MAN, was I duped.
