Netgear Arlo Q

What is the Netgear Arlo Q?





Home-surveillance cameras have been around for years, but they’ve seldom been all that easy to set up and manage. Netgear is aiming to finally make it super-easy to do just that, and at the heart of that system is the Arlo Q.

This camera can shoot up to 1080p video with a wide field of view, plus it has infrared LEDs for night vision, built-in Wi-Fi for easy connection to your network, and it can detect audio and motion, allowing it to start recording automatically.

In addition, the hardware integrates with a free cloud service, which lets you access the camera and its recordings from anywhere round the world, plus there’s a mobile app too.





Netgear Arlo Q – Design and Features

The Arlo Q is one of three cameras in the Arlo range. The weather-proof Arlo Wire-Free is for completely wireless use outdoors, the Arlo Q Plus is is for business – it uses a wired connection with power-over-Ethernet, but appears to be US-only – and the Arlo Q is for indoor use either at home or work.

This is an impressively small device, at just 70 x 73 x 115mm, so it should be easily squeeze in just about anywhere. It looks and feels like a quality piece of hardware too, with a nice soft-touch white finish and sturdy, compact build.









With the integrated stand you can either stand it on a flat surface or mount it on a wall, and the simple ball joint enables you to point the camera in whatever direction you’d like.

Helping to make installation as easy as possible is the lengthy 3m micro-USB cable that powers it; a USB power adapter is provided as well. Meanwhile, network connection is handled by built-in Wi-Fi, with both 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands supported at speeds up to N600.



The camera itself has a 170-degree wide-angle lens, and can record up to 1080p resolution at 30fps. Footage can be recorded manually via a schedule, or when the camera is triggered by either onscreen motion or sound.



Surrounding the camera are 10 infrared LEDs that provide enough light to illuminate up to 25ft away. They’ll turn on automatically – and the camera will switch into night mode – as soon as light levels drop below a certain level.







Below the LEDs sits a microphone, and below that is a status LED that glows various colours and flashes in various patterns depending on whether it’s powered on, connected to a network, fully operational and so on. It can also be turned off completely for more clandestine recording.







Round the rear of the device is a WPS button for quickly and easily connecting the camera to your home Wi-Fi, a micro-USB socket to power the unit, a speaker, and a reset pinhole button for resetting the device back to its default settings. The speaker can be used to provide two-way audio, so you can talk to people via the camera.







Netgear Arlo Q – Image Quality When all is said and done, it’s no good having a great camera management system if the footage is of poor quality. Thankfully, that isn’t the case here. In fact, image quality is particularly impressive. All too often, home-surveillance cameras are dogged by grainy, distorted images that cope poorly with high-contrast situations such as a bright sky and dark bushes. However, the Arlo Q provides colourful, detailed images that do a superb job of preserving both light and dark details.



Should I buy the Netgear Arlo Q?

The Arlo Q is a great one-stop solution for indoor home surveillance. It’s super-easy to setup and manage, and the fact that you can access your footage and manage the camera from wherever you are, via the web or your phone, is particularly handy. Other cameras may offer the same facility, but not with the same ease of use.

In addition, the footage recorded by the Arlo Q is of decent quality, plus the inclusion of night vision means there’s no need to worry about extra security lights

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