- What's up everyone.
Welcome to today's video,
in the video today we are going to
be going over the Arlo Pro 3 and comparing it to
the Arlo Pro 2 and the Arlo Ultra.
So, stay tuned.
(techno music)
Hey, real quick I want to let you guys know
that we are gonna be doing an Arlo Pro 3 giveaway
at the end of this video
so stay tuned for that.
All right back to the video I shot this morning.
So, about a month ago I posted my initial thoughts
on the Arlo Pro 3,
opened it up took a look at it,
got some test shots for you guys
and asked you what you wanted to see it compared to,
the Ultra or the Pro 2?
It's pretty much even between the two cameras
so I decided that since I've got both of them,
let's just compare all three cameras together
in this video.
So that's what we'll be doing today.
I've got the cameras all set up here on the fence
shooting out to the yard,
so we're gonna be able to get some ideas on
what the audio sounds like,
what the color difference is,
one thing to note too,
is that prior to this weekend,
so, me shooting this video right now
the Arlo Pro 3 has been having some issues with color.
It seemed very muted,
I actually spoke to Arlo about this.
They have improved the color on here
so the color does look better
however, it doesn't look as saturated as the Pro 2.
So the Pro 2 is a very saturated picture,
it would look good if that's something
that you wanna be posting on Instagram or Facebook
or anything like that but,
the reality is it's just over-saturated,
it is not realistic.
One thing Arlo said is that,
"they want to try to make their colors
"as realistic as possible",
and not some over-saturated video
like the Pro 2 is.
I asked them,
"if they were planning on fixing
"the colors for the Pro 2?"
They said,
"as of right now,
"that is not something that they are working on"
but at least for the Ultra and the Pro 3,
they are trying to get those as true
to the natural color as possible
and looking at the footage I'd have to agree
that those are probably more realistic in colors,
compared to the Pro 2 so.
But you know what,
before we start comparing all these cameras together,
let's head into the office,
take a look at the Pro 3 compared to the other cameras
and see what it offers.
(dynamic woosh)
Okay, so I wanted to talk a little bit about
the Arlo Pro 3s and exactly what they're offering
in comparison to the Pro 2 and the Ultra.
So if we take a look at the front of this
we see that it has a spotlight in front of the camera,
it's got the much better audio
like the Ultra has,
because if you guys haven't noticed before
during the testing the Pro 2 has awful audio.
So, much better audio here,
on the back we have the standard
mounting screw back here and then on the bottom,
we've got the charging port,
I mean, I guess a charging port
is what we'll call it,
that is magnetized and waterproof.
So you just have to bring the magnet
close up to here and it will automatically
connect which is really nice.
And then we've got the button to open up the case.
Now this thing has what they're calling a catch,
so if the camera is pointing like this,
and you want to take it out without taking it down,
you push the catch on the bottom
and if you noticed the camera popped out enough
to where I can grab it and pull it out,
but hasn't fallen out.
So, now that we have the shell off,
inside here we've got the battery.
So the battery is here,
these are the same batteries as the Ultra
so different from the Pro 2,
so this is gonna be very similar to the Arlo Ultra.
And then on the,
where is it?
On the bottom here we have the sync button,
so you're gonna use that to
sync it with the base station.
And the main difference
between this and the Ultra,
is that this is a 2K camera,
where the Ultra is going to be a 4K camera.
And then we also have the Pro 2
which is a 1080p camera.
So out of this new design my favorite part
about it is the new charging port.
If you guys have used the Pro 2
you know how difficult that can be
to try to get the cable in there,
and then also make sure that no moisture
gets in there, because it is
an open to the circuit, but,
this right here I absolutely love.
You just get it close enough,
it automatically connects
and you don't have to worry about
water getting in there,
it is so much better than the Pro 2.
One thing that I am not a fan of though
with the new system here is that,
it's not magnetized in the back anymore.
So, at least with the old Pro 2,
you could take that and stick it
to things that were metal
and not have to connect a mount.
Unfortunately for this,
even though it is much heavier in the back
with all of that metal in there,
it is not magnetic so,
you do have to use some kind of mount
to connect this to.
Another question that I keep seeing a lot of is,
does this come with free cloud storage?
And I'll tell you it does not.
It only comes with 30 days
of their Smart subscription,
which gives you 30 days of cloud storage,
in addition to a few other things.
I think that their Arlo Smart feature
what it'll do is it will analyze your data
and tell you if that is a person,
a vehicle, an animal
or an other I believe it is,
and it'll send you notifications
with that category already selected.
One thing that's nice about that is for example,
I have one at my front door pointing out.
I have a lot of activity in front of my house
and I have only selected to get notifications
when a person is detected.
So, normally I would be getting dozens
of notifications throughout the day
because of all the cars passing in front of it,
but I'm only getting notifications on my phone,
when it is a person.
Now, there is a recording for everything that happens
it's just the notifications.
Only if it detects a person, do I get a notification.
So that helps a lot with
there just being floods of notification on my phone.
So I actually like that feature
the problem with the Smart subscription
is that you have to pay $3 a month for,
per camera that is,
or you can pay $10 a month
and that will cover I believe it's up to five cameras,
I'll put a number up here to show you guys
what it actually covers with that $10 a month.
But the one problem with that is
when it detects something it has to then upload
that footage to their servers,
analyze it, detect what it is,
person, vehicle, animal or other
then it sends you the notification so,
I've noticed that notification takes about 15 seconds
to actually pop up on your phone,
which a lot of people don't like,
but I would say that
now that I've been using it for a while,
I actually really like the feature,
that I'm not just getting flooded
with notifications all day long.
I'm actually only getting notified
when it's a person and I would say that accuracy wise,
it's about 90, 95% accurate.
It's almost able to detect a person every time,
one thing though that I will mention
is that especially in my back yard when it's windy,
I'll get a lot of times where it categorizes
it as an animal.
I go back and I look I don't see any animals
it's not like there's a bird flying
through the shot or anything like that.
So, the one where it's trying to detect
if it's an animal or I guess a random object,
that one's kind of a miss
so if you're planning to use
that to notify you for an animal,
if it's a windy day, that one's not as good.
But for the person one, I really liked that one.
So, a couple other things that are included
with this camera,
is that it does have the color night vision.
We'll show you some examples of that
but if you don't want the spotlight to turn on,
it does have the normal night vision also.
This does shoot in 2K and it has the HDR,
which is much improved from the Arlo Pro 2
that allows you to get a dynamic range
in the darks and the lights,
so you're able to see both,
where in the Pro 2,
there was a lot of times where
the sky would be blown out
or other things if they were too bright
it would get blown out in the picture,
but the HDR really helps with these new cameras.
We've also got the two-way audio,
like I mentioned before the integrated spot lights,
these do have built in sirens
although they are not very loud.
The viewing angle is a 160 degrees
and like I mentioned before,
it does have the magnetic charging port
on the bottom and rechargeable batteries.
Okay so, in addition to all of the changes
between the Pro 2 and the Pro 3 on this camera,
we have had some changes in the base station here.
So now this base station looks
a lot more like the Ultra base station,
the problem with the Ultra base station
is that you had to have an SD card.
They got rid of the USB port in the back of that
which was a big disappointment to a lot of people.
I am happy to say that for the Pro 3,
the USB port is now back here
you can either plug a thumb drive
or an external hard drive into this
however, the SD card slot is gone
so you don't have an option
between the two of those,
for the Pro 3 it is now only the USB port on the back,
and I will say because of that USB port
that I have actually stopped
using the base station for the Ultra
I have actually connected all of my cameras
to the Pro 3 version and now everything
is running off there,
with an external hard drive
plugged in to be backing up
all of the footage onto this guy.
Okay so now that we have covered the hardware,
for those of you who are new to the Arlo system,
let's quickly go over the app
and I'll show you some of the features
of there and then we will jump into
the comparison footage of the cameras.
(dynamic woosh)
Okay, so we have the app loaded up here.
The top video that you're seeing,
that is my Arlo Pro 3,
and then below that I have the Arlo Ultra cameras,
but if we take a look here
under the Pro 3 we can see
that we have a battery life,
we have wifi signal,
we have the audio,
if you want to do your two-way talk,
and then right next to that,
that circle with the lines,
is if it has any kind of motion.
So right now, with it being black
or kind of a gray means no motion,
but if it was yellow that means
it would be detecting motion.
Next to that the 65 that's how many notifications
it has had since I last checked it,
and then next to that,
is that little gear wheels,
we can click on there to dive into
the different settings here.
We get a little bit more in depth in there,
we can go ahead and check video settings,
so we do have 2K live streaming turned on.
Auto zoom and tracking,
I am not a fan of that,
I don't turn that on so that is off,
you rotate the camera upside down,
we've got low light,
right now, we have the spotlight off,
we would turn the spotlight on.
You can see that you can have color night vision on,
we've got the brightness,
and last off, we're gonna back outta here,
go to power management,
I have it for the testing
set to best video and then the video
modes you can see the different angles
that you have here
so field of view we've got that set up right there.
So if we back out of all of this,
you can also set up activity zones.
You can click the plus arrow up here,
and you can name each zone,
if you wanted to you can drag those around
change the size of all of those,
we're gonna back out of here,
you can also go to your audio settings.
So here are your different audio settings
and I think the last one
here is device utilities
so you can set up camera position here
and then you can also do
the motion detection test
so that's another thing that you can go through.
All right and then also,
if we look at the tabs on the very bottom,
we see the libraries,
so here's the library of all the different shots
that we have, we can go through
the different days up on the top.
We've got modes here,
so depending on what you have set up,
like I mentioned, I'm not even using
my Ultra hub anymore I'm just using the Pro 3 hub.
So here's some different things,
if you want to set up
you can set up arm,
disarm, schedule, geo fencing,
I've been using the geo fencing
one a lot, that's a nice one .
Back out of here,
and then we can go to settings
where you can change some of
the different settings here,
but now that we've covered the app really quick,
let's jump outside,
and start comparing these cameras together
and let's see what they look like.
(dynamic woosh)
All right, we're gonna test the audio
of all the cameras that we have here.
So we've got the Arlo Ultra,
the Arlo Pro 3,
and the Arlo Pro 2,
and this is what the audio sounds like,
first thing in the morning
on all of these cameras.
Say bye.
- Bye.
All right, so now we are going
to be doing an audio test
this is the Arlo Ultra
we're doing a test this is 10 feet away,
I'm gonna slowly be backing up,
and talking, so you can tell
what the audio sounds like
I'll go all the way up
gonna be about 30 feet away right here.
So we are 30 feet away
from the Arlo Ultra and this
is what the quality sounds like
and the video from the Arlo Ultra.
All right, now we have the Arlo Pro 3
up here, we're gonna be doing an audio test,
we are 10 feet away from this camera,
be backing up and just giving you guys
an idea of audio test for this guy.
Back all the way up here to 30 feet,
so now we're 30 feet away from this camera
just kind of giving you guys an idea
of what it looks and sounds like,
all the way from 30 feet back up here to 10 feet.
Okay so we're gonna be doing
an audio visual test of the Arlo Pro 2.
I know you can't hear me well
on this one, I'm 10 feet away
we're gonna back up
and just do an audio
see what it sounds like
I'm gonna back all the way up here to 30 feet.
I'm 30 feet away from the camera
and going back around
just to give you guys an idea,
although, you can't hear me very well,
of what 10 all the way to 30 feet,
sound like with the Pro 2.
All right this is the Pro 3
with the spotlight turned on
now so this is what you can see
with the color night vision let's take it back.
All right so there we have 10 feet away,
now going back to 30, what you think?
All right so here is the Arlo Ultra,
with the color night vision on.
All right this is the Arlo Pro 2,
we're testing it, it has no color night vision
so this is just the regular IR night vision on this.
All right, this is a test
of the Arlo Pro 3.
We're testing it out,
with the night vision,
no spotlight on this one this is Pro 3.
All right here we have the Arlo Ultra
so this is the Ultra camera
and we are 10 feet away,
we're gonna take it all the way back
and see what it looks like.
- [Daughter] Daddy?
- Yeah?
- [Daughter] It's a bird.
- Hey, everyone back in the house.
- [Daughter] Why?
- Because you don't have shoes on you took baths.
Kids.
Okay let's go, let's go.
All right, so I think that we have
compared most of the big topics,
with these three cameras right here.
For the sake of time,
I'm gonna cut it off right there,
and give you guys my final thoughts on this camera.
So initially, when I did the unboxing,
I thought that this camera
was gonna be exactly the same as the Ultra,
except it was a 100 bucks cheaper,
and just had 2K quality.
After doing the testing,
I did notice, and I don't know
if the quality will actually come through,
to you guys in this YouTube video,
because of the downgrading and everything,
but the Arlo Ultra was noticeably better,
in audio, in quality of video,
color accuracy I noticed,
was all better with the Ultra.
Now these are some things,
that can be updated in firmware,
so maybe they will be doing that down the road,
and as far as the Pro 2,
other than that seven days of free cloud storage,
and the over-saturated image,
that I will admit it looks great
but it is not true to color,
compared to these cameras here.
So I leave it up to you guys
to decide which camera is gonna be best for you
and we'll like to know in the comments,
which camera you liked the best.
Which ones do you have,
or which ones are you looking to get,
let me know in the comments below,
I'd love to hear from you,
but now that we have gone through all of this,
let's talk about the giveaway.
I've been working with Arlo
and talking with them
and they are gonna be giving away
a two camera system of the Arlo Pro 3.
To enter the contest,
all you need to do is,
subscribe to my channel,
I would highly recommend
hitting the bell notification next to subscribe,
because we have had issues
where people don't get notified,
of when the announcement video comes out,
and they've actually missed,
that is right,
there have been people,
who have won things on my channel,
that have never claimed it,
so hit that bell notification
next to the subscribe button.
You have to comment on this video,
let me know what you guys think about these cameras,
and hit the like button on this video.
This contest is going to run for a full month,
so I will be picking a winner on Black Friday,
that is right, the day after Thanksgiving, November 29th,
I will the drawing that morning
so we will do 08:00 A.M. Pacific Standard Time
I will pick the winner
and reach out to you from there.
One other thing, that Arlo requires
and that is that you have to be a US resident.
So sorry to all of the international viewers on this.
This is gonna be for US residents only.
Anyway, that is all I have for this video today,
I hope you guys enjoyed it,
don't forget to like, subscribe
and comment below to enter the contest
and I will see you guys in the next video.