![]() There’s a 160-degree field-of-view, plus you’ll get features like two-way audio, motion tracking and automatic zooming, and so on. It’s not a 4K camera, like you’ll find on the Arlo Ultra, but it is still an above-average 2K. The actual camera is pretty high-quality too. It’s easily bright enough to illuminate a dark driveway or entryway - and thankfully, if you find that it’s too bright, you can adjust the brightness. Arlo rates the floodlight as offering a brightness of up to 3,000 lumens, and it’s bright enough to where the company warns against looking directly at the light. Speaking of the floodlight, it’s easily bright enough for the vast majority of use-cases. The camera should automatically turn the floodlight on when it detects motion, and at the same time it’ll start recording. Once the camera is set up, you really won’t have to interact with it unless you want to or something happens. It’s absolutely simple, and you don’t really have to worry too much about screwing the base into the perfect spot considering the camera can be positioned with a ball joint too. The camera comes with a base that you can simply screw into a wall or ceiling and then twist the main camera onto that base. It’s very easy.Īfter that, you’ll need to mount the camera to its permanent location, and doing so is also pretty easy. ![]() You’ll then be able to add the camera by following the on-screen instructions, which basically just involves selecting your Wi-Fi network and entering the password. ![]() You’ll start by putting the battery in the camera, downloading the app, and either signing in or creating an account. Setting the camera up involves two different phases - connecting the camera to your account and Wi-Fi, and putting the camera up physically. Setting up the camera is thankfully very easy - and even easier than other Arlo cameras considering the fact that you don’t have to use it with a Base Station. The entire device is around seven inches long and six inches wide, so it’s not necessarily subtle - but it looks good in general, so it shouldn’t be too much of an eye-sore in most setups.Īrlo Pro 3 Floodlight (Image credit: Arlo) Setup You can buy additional batteries for $50 if you’re worried about not having your camera up and running during the few hours it takes to charge every six months, which we appreciate, and the device charges through a MicroUSB port, which is fine - but it would have been nice if it had USB-C instead. Arlo rates the device as offering a six-month battery life, though we weren’t able to fully test that during this review. It makes sense - with the battery in the regular Pro 3, you would presumably run out of juice relatively quickly considering the addition of the floodlight. ![]() The back of the camera is a little longer than the standard Pro 3, which helps it offer a larger battery. The only real differences on the front of the camera are the fact that there’s no spotlight above the sensor - since instead, there’s the main floodlight that surrounds the camera module. If you’ve used or seen an Arlo security camera in the past, you’ll immediately recognize aspects of the Pro 3 Floodlight’s design: the device has a white body, with an oval black front that houses the camera sensor, microphone, and a small speaker.
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