Arlo Battery Usage

[tblier21]

I have the basic Arlo wireless camera with the basic Arlo Net gear base station and my brother was telling me that it drains the battery to even be on the arlo app, like as if watching it "live" or even watch recordings from the past. Is it true that it will significantly drain the batteries from the camera to watch recordings that have already been recorded and saved onto the free app cloud? and if not, then when will I drain it even more than it already is being drained? for example, higher motion detect percentages or live viewings. Thank You for any and all responses to this.

[jguerdat]

Live view and motion detection recordings will drain the battery.  Viewing already recorded videos has no effect since the videos are accessed via the servers ("the cloud"), not the cameras.