This doorbell receives an Excellent rating for response time and offers terrific video quality and data security, but its data privacy and smart features could be better. If not, you’ll need to either have an electrician install the wiring or use a plug-in power adapter, which is sold separately. If you have an existing doorbell that's hardwired, it will work just fine.
Optional subscription costs: 30 days of cloud video storage for $3 per month for one camera or $10 per month for five cameras 24/7 continuous video recording for $10 per month per camera for 14 days and $20 per month per camera for 30 days.ĬR’s take: The Google Nest Hello Video Doorbell is one of the best you can buy, but it’s only offered in a hardwired version and can’t run off battery power. If you don’t want to pay a monthly fee for video storage, you can connect a USB drive to the base station and store footage there instead. With an Arlo Smart plan, you can get more video storage as well as monitoring zones person, package, vehicle, and animal detection and e911, which allows you to contact your home’s local 911 dispatcher directly, regardless of whether you’re home or halfway around the world. ( See this article on our security camera data privacy and security tests for more information.) The Pro 2 also receives a great data security score, which means it will hold up well against hackers, but its data privacy could be better. That means they offer a wide array of smart features compared with the competition, including a siren, voice control via Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, a rechargeable battery, and a rolling seven days of free storage for motion- and audio-triggered video clips (a perk that the other Arlo cameras in our ratings lack). Want ideas for how to use all these devices to organize and streamline your home? See our in-depth smart home toolkit for our latest advice.ĬR’s take: The Arlo Pro 2 offers superb video quality, and Arlo cameras are the only models in our ratings with Excellent Smart IQ ratings. The list includes devices made by Arlo, First Alert, Google Nest, Rachio, Samsung, and Yale. We run each through a battery of tests, including kick-ins and picking for smart locks and sound quality and ease of use for smart speakers. To help you find the best SmartThings-compatible smart devices for your home, we rounded up the top-performing models from our ratings of smart speakers, security cameras, smart thermostats, smart locks, smart sprinkler controllers, and more. Samsung has been working on getting devices to hook up to SmartThings via WiFi, though, so you should see more and more options that don’t require the separate hub. That tally includes almost all of the most popular smart home brands, such as Arlo, Nest, Philips Hue, Ring, Sonos, and Wemo.Ĭertain devices require a Samsung SmartThings-compatible hub, a separate $120 device that connects third-party devices to the system. Samsung’s smart home ecosystem isn’t as big as those from Amazon and Google, but it still works with over 5,000 devices. If you want to use voice control to work the devices, you can use Samsung's Bixby digital assistant that's built into its smartphones.
Set your home’s thermostats, keep watch from security cameras and video doorbells, automate lighting from connected bulbs and switches, and monitor your backyard’s sprinkler system-all from one app. SmartThings is Samsung’s smart home platform, which allows you to control all of the connected devices in your home. You might be tempted to uninstall them all and install just what you use, but at least one of those apps, called Samsung SmartThings, is worth keeping. If you own a Samsung smartphone, you probably know all about bloatware, the numerous installed apps that come with the phone that you didn’t ask for.
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