topic Re: Arlo alternatives in Arlo Pro 4

Arlo alternatives

qumhh — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 05:58:50 GMT

Greetings. I have 4 arlo cameras at my house and after fighting with charging issues I took some time and ran dedicated CAT 6 cables to each location. Now that the hard work is donee, does anyone have experience with a wired camera system similar to Arlo ?

Re: Arlo alternatives

Edinburgh_lad1 — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 10:48:25 GMT

I don't, but I believe ubiquiti has a number of wired cameras. They look quite promising, though they do have one or two WiFi operated. I believe you'd need to allow for a power cable. Ubiquiti is a serious company, from what I've heard, and if they had WiFi battery operated cameras, I'd switch to them in an instant.

Re: Arlo alternatives

StephenB — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 19:44:32 GMT

@Edinburgh_lad1 wrote:

I believe you'd need to allow for a power cable.

Most wired cameras use power over ethernet (PoE). So if you are going that route, you should get a PoE ethernet switch.