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- #77 in Home Security Systems
The Arlo Pro SmartHub securely connects your Arlo cameras to the Internet via your home router, while providing long range connectivity and better battery life for your cameras.Features include Wi-Fi (2.4GHz), Zwave, ZigBee, and ArloRF ready, local backup, smart siren and expanded coverage through additional base stations.
Ryan
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2025
Connections to cameras are faster than using Arlos subscription service without a base station. Range is great. No complaints.
Alexander
Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2025
- To properly use the offline access, setup a Home VPN tunnel to access remotely from your home.- This might require a higher-end router like Asus to setup, but establishing a WireGuard VPN connection makes it possible to remotely pull footage from this device- Remember, this is to avoid paying for cloud storage, so you need some kind of remote capabilities then you need a VPN into your home.- To setup and pair, you press both buttons on camera and dock. This has its own separated wireless connection for pulling dedicated footage from Arlo cameras.
ceil
Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2025
This was an upgrade to the previous version.
Customer
Reviewed in Canada on January 21, 2025
Happy with this purchase
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Reviewed in Mexico on May 24, 2024
En un inicio lo adquirí solamente para que una mis cámaras Ultra pudiera funcionar, pero ha funcionado mejor de lo que esperé, me ha ayudado a que en las demás cámaras ( Arlo 4 ) pueda sacarles todo el provecho, pues ahora tengo transmisión en 2K en vivo, además de que el tiempo de respuesta de las cámaras mejoró muchísimo
Customer
Reviewed in Canada on May 16, 2024
If where you live gets below zero temperature limits, don't waste your money. I bought this and an essential spotlight camera and found out the hard way.One night in February the temp dropped below -10 C and the camera went offline giving me a system error notification saying the camera was offline.It warmed up and I reset according to the online guide and the camera worked again, but unfortunately the system notification saying the camera was offline continued even though the camera was working. The issue caused lags and delays in other notifications.I called customer service and after repetitive requests to check this and that to reset the system as well as reinstalling the app which didn't correct the problem, they sent me a new camera.After replacing the camera, the system notification from Feb still persisted and after much discussion, they escalated the issue up to Engineering, where it still sits unattended after a week.It's now the middle of May, so over two months later and still no resolution to the issue.I decided to ditch the system as far too unreliable for one that does work up here.These should be sold only in hot weather year round climates.
John Bange
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2024
OK, so the purposes of this hub are twofold: one, to act as a wifi hub so the cameras aren't on your "regular" wifi, and two, to record motion events locally so you're not dependent on the Arlo cloud service. Well, it does the first one fine. The second, however, has been rendered ineffective by Arlo in their latest app update.The current app is actually TWO apps rolled into one. If you have any newer Arlo hardware, it forces you to "upgrade" to the new app because the old app isn't compatible. The new app is apparently incompatible with a few of the very oldest Arlo cameras, but that's not unexpected. The new app has a a screen called the "feed". This is where all the latest events show up, such a motion detection by your cameras, home/away mode changes, etc. The problem with the Arlo hub is, it USED TO have motion events show up there, but Arlo changed the app so they only show video motion events that are in *cloud storage with Arlo*. Cloud storage costs $7 per camera per month. Oh, you can *access* the hub stored videos, if you're the account owner only, if you go three levels into the hub settings screen, and you know which video you want by time stamp because there's no thumbnails, and you're willing to download the video file to your phone and watch it on your phone's video player. Alternately, you can pull the USB thumb drive out of the hub and insert it into a computer and view the files that way.The practical upshot is, Arlo nerfed the main functionality of the app with the hub because they want you to be paying a monthly fee. The fact that this renders the hub little more than a cheap wifi hub with local video backup rather than a useful part of the video surveillance system apparently does not concern Arlo. In fact, they are so unconcerned that they continue to sell this $100 box that DOESN'T WORK WITH THEIR APP ECOSYSTEM, because I guess they had a lot of them manufactured and can only get rid of them by pretending they still work with their new app mode?The worst part is, whether the app starts up in the "old" mode or the "new" mode is stored in your user account configuration on Arlo's servers, so once you upgrade to this newer app mode, there is no way to go back. Even downloading an old version of the app that doesn't HAVE the new version rolled into it doesn't work, because it simply won't let you log in. If you're using the old version now and don't upgrade, this hub will probably work fine for you. At least it'll work fine FOR NOW. At some point you know Arlo will force people into the new app ecosystem in order to push their monthly cloud service, and at that point, the hub will be pointless.
Nick
Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2024
Picked up as replacement hub for my pro 2 kit and have encountered no issues setting up or using features like local storage through the arlo app. Only complaint is the price really
h. s.
Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2024
Make sure to use USB 2 flash driveIt has issues with USB 3Too early to say on quality and overall product review. Documentation can be better, specifically pointing out USB version.
Amy Stanley
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2024
I received this order withing 12 hours of placing the order. Fast shipping. This hub connects to my internet and arlo cameras easily
Me
Reviewed in Canada on January 28, 2024
I got this so that I could connect my Arlo doorbell to it and watch the recorded videos from my phone as the base station that came with my Arlo cameras didn't allow for that without a subscription. This did the trick and has allowed me to playback the camera footage from my phone. There is a delay when watching live footage but not enough for concern in my opinion. I recommend this for those that want to review the video from their external hard drive without having to disconnect it from the base.
Renan
Reviewed in Mexico on June 18, 2023
Tengo 4 cámaras ARLO Essencial y mejoró bastante la velocidad de respuesta de las cámaras. La imagen tardaba mucho en llegar a mi celular y eso ya se corrigió. Graba en el USB muy bien aún cuando no estoy dentro de Estados Unidos. Lo único que no he podido corregir es que no puedo visualizar los videos grabados si no estoy en casa. No sé cómo corregirlo.
Ruth Gentry
Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2023
The vmb4540 is not clearly defined: videos do not work on a PC, only on an adroid app; the information stated it would work. Adding that feature of viewing local storage on a PC would be belpful. Our understanding was also that cloud viewing would be available without a subscription for 1 year...that's inaccurate. A lot of the information about subscription is confusing.
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