hey guys and welcome to my channel today's video will be a comparison
between the youth EUFY CAM and the Arlo pro 2 cameras i will also compare both of
those to my original camera setup which was the blink system, so without any
further ado let's get straight into it
so let's have a look at the comparison in the features between all three
systems we've got first up the field of view so the field of view on the UV cam
is 140 degrees it is the widest field of view out of the three cameras with the
power supply the EUFY security camera has a built-in battery which is meant to
last up to one year now the actual battery specification is not listed
anywhere in the websites so we don't have any technical specifications with
the arlo system we have a 2440 mAh
rechargeable and removable battery and the blink cameras do run on two AA
batteries. All cameras are compatible with both Android and iOS the Eufy Cam and the
Arlo Pro 2 record up to 1080p video full HD whereas the blink camera is
720p high definition. Now when it comes to audio the Eufy Cam and the Arlo
both have a built-in microphone and speaker with support for two-way audio
whereas the blink camera only has a one directional microphone so that means it
does not have the speaker you can record audio. The cameras all have a
micro USB port which is primarily used for charging on the Eufy Cam and the arlo
system however the USB port on the blink cam is only used for external power
source the camera does not support charging the batteries through the port
now when it comes to motion detection all three cameras support motion detection
however I only two of the cameras have proper night vision with the Eufy Cam
having night vision up to 33 feet which is about 10 meters and the arlo cameras
having night vision up to 25 feet which is about 7 and a half meters the
blink cameras themselves don't really have night vision built in however they
do have a a light that comes on when motion is detected at night and that
kind of illuminates the scene however that does substantially reduce the
battery life of the camera now these two cameras are both weather resistant with
the Eufy Cam being IP66 rated and the arlo pro 2 being rated at IP65 the
blink camera is is essentially a indoor camera however I did have it set up in
an outdoor environment which was underneath the shade so there was no
water getting to the camera now when it comes to integration with smart devices
such as Alexa Google assistant the Eufy Cam currently does not have
support for those it is coming via a future software update I received an
email the other day from the Kickstarter project which mentioned that support for
Google assistant would be coming sometime in quarter 1 2019 the Arlo
pro 2 is the only camera out of the three that currently
supports the Google assistant and Amazon Alexa when it comes to facial or human
recognition the Eufy Cam has built-in facial recognition however with the Arlo
pro 2 you do need a subscription and that subscription allows you to detect
people, packages, cars and animals the blink camera does not have any of those
features if you'd like to review those features once again you can pause the
video here. The highlighted sections in the table show where each camera has
better features than the others. before we have a look at the home basis for
each camera just like to have a look at the mounts that come with the cameras
the magnetic mount in particular so we've got the magnetic mount for the Eufy
cam and the magnetic mount for the arlo pro 2 and you will notice that they are
both quite similar looking however surprisingly the Eufy Cam magnetic
mount is much stronger than the one on the arlo pro 2 so if you do use the
magnetic mount for arlo pro 2 and you have it mounted outside be careful as
the camera can easily be pulled off. the Eufy Cam does require a lot more force
than the a low pro 2. so moving on let's do a comparison between the home bases
we've got the Eufy Cam home base which has a built in micro SD card slot an
Ethernet port and USB connection which is primarily used for charging the
cameras we've got the Power Point and this button here is used to restart the
home base as the home base has a built-in battery
you'll notice there is a red light on the front which means it's running on
battery currently so it can still communicate with the cameras when the
power goes off. the arlo pro 2 home base is slightly bigger than the Eufy Cam
there is a on and off button power we've got an Ethernet connection
and there are two USB ports there is also a reset switch down the bottom here
the USB ports on the arlo home base are used for connecting a USB stick which
can be used for local recording storage and the blink home base as you can see
is quite tiny that is why it is quite useless it doesn't really do much apart
from connect to micro USB for power there is an Ethernet connection there
for internet and the USB port actually currently has no functionality you've
probably realized by now that I'm not a fan of the blink camera system so as far
as reliability goes I'll tell you straight up I do not recommend the
system at all my experience with these cameras has been so bad that I was
contemplating disposing them I find the cameras very unreliable that a reasoning
changing quite often at least once a month and the customer support is
terrible the cameras would just stop working intermittently and the
application would say the system is offline I would do
all the standard troubleshooting reboot the cameras reboot the system and
nothing would work then all of a sudden the cameras would just start making
randomly every time I would contact customer support I would get the
standard response "well we can see that it's actually working from our side now
so there is no problem" and they would focus more on closing the
case marking it 'solved' rather than preventing the problem and avoiding
future issues, so I wasn't very happy with the technical support from blink
another thing worth mentioning for blink system is the the support for IFTTT is
mainly in the US so if that's one of the important features for you again stay
away from these cameras it's worth mentioning that I've been running the Arlo
system just a little longer than the Eufy Cam and I can happily say that so far I
haven't had any issues the cameras have both been quite reliable they haven't
had any downtime so far and they've both been available every time I've gone to
check the cameras they're always detected motion and recorded it a couple
of things to note about the camera systems with the a arlo pro 2 system you
can actually get quite a few accessories on the market some of those accessories
are silicon sleeves there are official arlo accessories you can purchase them
from the arlo website you can also get additional mounts I find these mounts
that I purchased off eBay they are a lot better for mounting outdoor compared to
the magnetic mounts and they're a lot more secure and stable one thing to note with
these silicon sleeves is I'm not a big fan I was using this on the camera
outside and when I went to change the battery the other day I realized that um
bugs get inside and they've been creating nests so for that reason I
decided not to use these anymore and the other issue that I have is a bit of a
funny one I often get spiders making spider webs on the front
of the Arlo Pro 2 camera now I don't know if they just love the cameras or
whether it's just me experiencing the issue but I have tried using bug spray
around the camera to create a barrier and it doesn't seem to work the spider
webs are quite annoying and very visible in the night mode so they are basically
obstructing the view completely but they're not that visible in daylight I
haven't experienced this with the Eufy Cam system yet so if you have any
recommendations on know how to solve that spider web issue please let me know
as you can see from the comparison view between both cameras the Eufy Cam video
appears to have sharper and brighter video even in night mode the Arlo Pro
2 video appears to be a lot softer and sometimes even washed out or
oversaturated
while looking at the video properties for the recorded files we can see the Eufy
cam video resolution is 1920 by 1080 however the arlo pro 2 video
properties show that the resolution is 1904 by 1072 so it is not exactly 1080p
resolution not sure if this is a software issue or a limitation of the
cameras themselves and that's all for today's video guys if you have any
questions comments or suggestions please let me know in the comment section below
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