topic Re: Arlo pro Data usage in Arlo Pro

Arlo pro Data usage

Fish403 — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 01:14:32 GMT

Good evening ive been setting these cameras up for individuals who dont have technological abbilities or means to set up them selves after a string of break ins in our community

my ? is how many gb of data is the system using per month with normal use and obvisouly the first

month of playing with the app haha

Thanks Fish

Re: Arlo pro Data usage

TomMac — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:35:22 GMT

In real world, ( daytime ) 10 secs of video on the Pro is just a hair over 1 MB

( spec usage of system is 5 mins per day for battery life )

You do the math 🙂

PS:

FAQS are your friend;

How much bandwidth does an Arlo camera use when it is capturing video?

Each camera uses a different amount of bandwidth based on its video resolution settings. To learn how much bandwidth your Arlo system uses, add the streaming cameras’ bandwidth settings together. If a camera detects low bandwidth, the Arlo system automatically reduces the video stream settings to accommodate lower bandwidth.

Note: The listed values are approximations.

Arlo Wire-Free Camera:

Best Video. 700-750 kilobits per second (kbps)
Optimized. 450-550 kbps
Best Battery Life. 300 kbps

Arlo Q and Arlo Q Plus:

1080P. 1500 kbps
720P. 700 kbps
480P. 300 kbps
360P. 200 kbps
240P. 100 kbps

Re: Arlo pro Data usage

pc2k17 — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 13:33:00 GMT

Great info from @TomMac......... Just to add my experience.....

I consider myself an above average usage person...... in that, using my phone on 4g lte, I probably look at videos and do live viewing 20-30 times a day easy, sometimes more, and I'll regularly watch 20 videos in a row at one minute a piece. I have 3 of my cameras record a fixed length of 1 minute and the 4th camera records when motion stops/starts. The 4th camera could be 20 seconds or 4 minutes of record time. With these record times and my constant watching of videos or doing live viewing, I've added about 2Gb of data usage each month. I never hook my phone to wifi, so if the person uses wifi while home and mirrored my usage they'd use less. I don't use wifi on phone because I pay for the data, might as well use it up. My guess is the avarage user would use less data than I do with the cameras, but if you have data to spare then I wouldn't worry about it.