topic Re: Arlo Camera wire free in Arlo

Arlo Camera wire free

ywk — Thu, 18 May 2017 16:01:39 GMT

I replaced arlo camera exchanged.

And tested night time, but unfortunately result was same.
Night vision was too dark to see nothing.

Could anyone help solve my sad frustration and bad disappointing for Netgear Arlo.?

I like to attached my image scene.

Re: Arlo Camera wire free

steve_t — Thu, 18 May 2017 02:45:34 GMT

The regular Arlo is limited by the amount of ambient light as well as the IR illumintors. Obviously, the IR illuminators require a relatively close object for the IR to reflect off. I can't see your attached pic yet but if the space is open and everything is far away, you won't see much.

The Arlo Pro has significantly better night vision and one may be better suited to your area. An add on Arlo Pro works with the original base station too

Re: Arlo Camera wire free

TomMac — Thu, 18 May 2017 13:08:06 GMT

Take a day time picture of the same scene so we can compare the distantances your shooting...

The IR illuminators do fall off very quickly at 25-30 ft+ ( inverse sq law )... best is when within the detection range.

Re: Arlo Camera wire free

ywk — Thu, 18 May 2017 14:36:36 GMT

Thank you for concern and helos.

Here are daytime and night time picture.

Re: Arlo Camera wire free

ywk — Thu, 18 May 2017 14:38:19 GMT

Re: Arlo Camera wire free

jguerdat — Thu, 18 May 2017 19:20:15 GMT

The distance is too great for the camera illuminators. Research 850 nM IR spotlights on Amazon so you can use them for greater throw.

Re: Arlo Camera wire free

TomMac — Thu, 18 May 2017 20:12:56 GMT

here's a shot of the Arlo at night... the small centered stump is 28-30 ft and camera is 6 ft off ground

This is the best it will do, ... but in your case it may be the IR is totally off.

You can see them at night, they glow a faint red around the lens..... check this out at night to see them

Re: Arlo Camera wire free

ywk — Thu, 18 May 2017 20:53:49 GMT

Thank You very much. Your helps a lot better.

As your suggesion, I ordered Arlo Pro today.

I really appriciate your faithful advises.

I will see what happen after installed Arlo Pro Sys.

See you.

Re: Arlo Camera wire free

steve_t — Thu, 18 May 2017 20:59:10 GMT

Yeah, there's pretty much nothing there that's largely reflective. Additionally, the one spot of bright light coming through the trees might be throwing off the autoexposure setting. Tonight, go into liveview mode and move the brightness slider to full bright and see if that makes a difference. Otherwise, as above, you may need to add some motion sensing lights to the area or again, check out the Arlo Pro camera

Edit: Didn't see the comment above. Good stuff