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security camera home

01.14.2007 | 34 Comments

All of this will cost you, though: A single camera with the hub is $399, and extra cameras are $299 each. And if you want to save 4K videos, it’s an extra $1. 99 per camera per month, on top of the $9. 99 monthly plan, the latter of which is waived for the first year. Read our full Arlo Ultra Review. 99 View at Best Buy$359View at Amazon$539. 99View at Walmart?Like its older sibling the Arlo Pro, the Arlo Pro 2 has motion detection, night vision and an intercom function, but the Pro 2 has a higher resolution 1080p vs. 720p with a wider 130 degree field of view. The Arlo Pro 2 can be plugged in or run off battery power, and can last for up to six months without needing a recharge. You'll also get Arlo's generous cloud subscription plan, which offers seven days' worth of footage for free. Read our full Arlo Pro 2 review.

Smart Panel

01.14.2007 | 16 Comments

Nest Aware streams continuous video to Nest's servers, and at the top resolution of 1600 x 1200, you could be facing 150GB to 600GB of uploads per month. Nest is up front about this, and suggests reducing the video quality to medium 1152 x 864 or low 512 x 384, or using the schedule feature to turn the camera on and off so that it's not uploading continuously. Smart Home IntegrationBecause Nest is a division of Google, Nest Hello integrates with the Google Assistant but obviously lacks support for Amazon's Alexa and Apple's HomeKit. Image credit: NestProducts with Google Assistant like the Google Home, Google Home Mini and the Nest Cam IQ with Google Assistant can let you know when someone's at the door. You can also ask Google Assistant to cast the doorbell's live video stream to a Chromecast equipped TV. This even worked with my first generation Chromecast, although it took some buffering as all video tends to do on a first gen Chromecast. If you've subscribed to Nest Aware, you can even have your compatible smart speaker announce people by name, assuming they're recognized by the Nest app. I'm a reluctant smart speaker user, so I found this weird at first. But it's also the closest my house has come to the McFly house in Back to the Future Part II, welcoming home every family member by name. The Nest Hello also works with the Nest X Yale smart lock, so that you can lock and unlock your door using your smartphone and assign codes to guests. However, you can't use your voice to control it with Alexa or another voice assistant as you can with August's and Schlage's smart locks.