Battery Life if doing the 24/7 capture feature?

[coloradouser]

we are curious if we were to be gone a few weeks and set up the 24/7 coverage, what sort of battery life we can expect?  would we have to have someone come to the house to replace the batteries ?  curious if anyone has done/utilitzed this and what the battery life/drain is.

thanks

[jguerdat]

24/7 simply isn't possible. 30 minutes is the best you can do and that's only manually. You'd be better off with the new Q CA era which is powered and capable of constant streaming.

[AllEyesOnYou]

There are no batteries with the Arlo Q, it plugs into the wall. There are batteries with the Arlo wireless, but no CVR 24/7 recording. Since this is the Q section, I am guessing you meant the Q...and they are really nice. Small, beautiful, plugs into a wall outlet with a long cord and comes with some nice window stickers...though I haven't had an answer yet as to where I can get more. Hope this helped...I like my 2 Qs so far.

[jguerdat]

You're 100% right - I ass-u-me-d that it was an Arlo wireless question, not Q.  These forums are labelled but no one pays attention.  Guess I fell into that trap myself.

If you opt for CVR (constant video recording) you get 24/7 capability.  Recordings are still limited to 2 minutes but you can review for days using CVR. I've used a screen capture computer program with CVR full-screen to capture my own video after determining what it was I wanted since you can't otherwise download non-recorded video.  A little tricky but ultimately doable.