Outdoor cameras are weatherproof and can be installed on the exterior of your home. You may need to do a little DIY, such as drilling holes in a wall to fix the camera to it. You should also put them at a high level so that nobody can steal your camera. These are great at acting as a deterrent to intruders and are also handy if you want to keep an eye on your garage, shed, or car on your driveway. If the worst does happen, you’ll have footage that you can give to the police to help them identify and prosecute the perpetrator. Different cameras have different fields of view, which refers to the area covered by the lens. The larger this is, the more the camera will see. Think about where you put the camera and whether its field of view will cover everything you need. Colour night vision Instead, you can connect it straight to your home wifi network through the app. It may look identical to the Arlo Ultra or Arlo Ultra 2, but it records in a slightly lower 2K resolution, making it more affordable too.

For some others, you must have a subscription to view footage, and some come with a free trial. Or, some cameras have local storage and allow you to save the footage to a micro SD card (either in the camera or base station). Video quality It can be better value to get a kit with a few cameras instead of going for a single-camera kit and buying extra cameras at a later date. Sirens The 2K quality is still far better than HD options on our list, and we were able to read street signs when the camera was mounted at first floor level on the exterior of a building. If you’re after the best resolution, of course, the image wasn’t as sharp as what we recorded with the Arlo Ultra 2. Thanks to its improved wireless coverage (it supports both 2.4GHz and 5GHz wifi bands unlike the older Arlo Ultra, which only supports 2.4GHz) you can position it further away from the SmartHub, making it a better choice for those with larger homes. The cameras save videos (either in the cloud or on the device itself) and as they’re wireless, you won’t require cables running all over your property or a central unit, as you would with a conventional CCTV system. Some connect to your internet connection while others need a base station that plugs into your router and remains in your home.A 2K camera with a resolution of 2560x1440 pixels will be sharper still, and high-end systems with 4K quality (that’s 3840x2160 pixels) deliver the most vivid and detailed videos. Field of view

Video storage: Cloud storage with a Blink Subscription Plan and local storage that’s available via the Blink Sync Module 2 The results were clear and in colour both during the day and at night (providing the spotlight is triggered when it detects motion), and like all Arlo cameras, the clips vary in length depending upon the duration of the motion that triggered the recording.It records in Full HD with a wide 130-degree field of view, which means it has a slightly lower resolution and range than other Arlo cameras like the Ultra 2 and Pro 4. It has a lot in common with Arlo’s entry-level Essential camera, but it’s far more versatile. Unlike the original Go, this now has colour night vision, a spotlight, and a built-in 80db siren to scare off would-be burglars. It also has GPS, so you won’t forget where you put it.