Netatmo Review – Best Home Security Camera System No 3

In this Netatmo Review we want to give you all PROS & CONS of the Netatmo Welcome – Home Security Camera with face recognition!

This Review is Part 3 of our Home Security Camera System Reviews and our Comparison between Netatmo vs. Arlo vs. Canary home security cameras.

 

Comparison
Best Home Security Camera Systems

 

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1. Arlo Home Security Camera
2. Canary All-in-One Home Security Device
3. Netatmo Welcome, Home Security Camera

 

We want to show you the main purpose of each home security camera system. For your Smart Home these can be a good boost of convenience.

With this in mind we will figure out for whom we would recommend which home security camera and why!  Of course as always you will find our Pros & Cons for each of these home security gadgets. But lets start with a quick introduction of the different products.

 

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Best Home Security Camera System
No 3 – Netatmo Review

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To find a good starting point, let’s take a look at the Netatmo features:

• Home security camera with revolutionary face recognition technology
• Private and safe local storage on micro SD card (included)
• no video storage fees
• additional: Video storage to your dropbox possible
• Free video access from your smartphone or computer
• Full HD 1080p videos
• extensive 130 Degree field of view
• night vision with LED`s
• Design: Build of beautiful anodized aluminum

 

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Best Home Security Camera System
No 3 – Netatmo Review

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First, the Netatmo Installation was very easy. This said, you just plug in the device, download the Netatmo App, create an account and you are good to go. The installation took us about 15 minutes.

 

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Best Home Security Camera System
No 3 – Netatmo Review
Our Experience Pros & Cons

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Building a Smart Home often means trying to setup a beautiful and convenient home interior. Not all products you find for your Smart Home or Home Automation match these needs.

 

With this in mind, the Style and Design of the Netatmo Security Camera does! With its beautiful, slim design it fits in nearly any home interior without looking like an ugly tech device. Compared to the Canary and the Arlo Home Security Cameras, the style factor goes to Netatmo closely followed by the Canary and then the Arlo. The Arlo has a somehow more technical appearance.

 

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All day Use – Experience

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After the easy setup you will see that the work is not really done yet. Different to the Arlo, the Netatmo does not concentrate on “being an easy to use home security camera”. The Netatmo uses face recognition as one of its Key-Features.

 

To get the Netatmo Welcome to work properly you have to help it to learn to know everybody in the household. You can not do this just by walking by or shooting just one image of each person. The Netatmo learns by shooting lots of different snapshots which can be marked as different persons. After lots of these snaps the device really is getting good in knowing who is strolling around in front of its lens.

 

This comes in handy as you can set the alerts on “only if unknown” people enter your home. If the Netatmo recognizes a person it stops recording or tracking the person.

 

This often is one of the biggest customer issues (CONS). It is said, that the face recognition does not work very well. Our experience was a bit different. When you put in the effort to complete the learning process of the device you get quite good results. To reach this goal you have to grow a column in the app, showing “your” learning progress until completion. Even after this, people with hats seemed to be hard to recognize. But – take it off at home would be an easy solution.

 

 

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Home Security Functionality

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Streaming Video was working fine. The Video just lagged about 5-7 seconds which is okay. The Video Quality during our Netatmo Review was good. Mainly under very bright light conditions.

 

Here we would say on eye level with the Arlo System and with the Canary.

 

But as soon as the light became more dim the video quality rapidly decreased. Even the LED`s which did a decent job in complete darkness, were not able to handle darker surroundings. Both the Canary Home Security System and the Arlo Home Security Camera produced much better footage at these conditions.

 

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– Sound quality, Software –
& Add Ons

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What we liked about the Netatmo was the possibility to attach additional devices like window or door sensors. This boosted the reliability of the system as it gives you the opportunity to get notified if a door or window is open(ed).

 

A few last things we recognized during our Netatmo Review:

Lets start with the software including the device itself and the Netatmo App. Both truly need improvements. Especially the App while streaming video on the go (even with good connection speed) sometimes slows down the video until you can hardly tell if there are single pictures or a video running.

 

Sound Quality – is really poor in the most videos. Looking at the technical specs would make us think that it should be better.

 

What’s good about the build in microphone is the possibility of the Netatmo to send you an alert when one of your other alarms turns on. This truly can provide additional safety for your home for example when notified by an alert, that your smoke detector siren is on.

 

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Conclusion PROS & CONS

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PROS

+ Build Quality
+ Design fits nearly everywhere
+ Dropbox and IFTTT possible
+ Video Quality in VERY Light conditions

 

CONS

– Device gets Hot
– Face Recognition with LONG learning curve
– Video Quality with low light levels
– Software needs Improvement

 

The Netatmo “Welcome” Home Security Camera can be a good solution, when you are looking for a very stylish and easy to setup Camera-Device.

 

If Netatmo manages to do some Software-Improvements this device would compete on Eye-level with the Canary and the Arlo. At the point of our testing we would say it gets the 3rd place in our trio of Home Security Camera Systems.

 

You can get more Information 
or buy it at the daily best Price

 

Also Read Parts 1+2: Security Camera Comparison!
PART ONE:

Arlo Wireless & Wirefree Home Security Camera Review

 

PART TWO:

Canary Home Security System with Motion detection & tracking

 

 

The Netatmo and the Netatmo App are part of the Netatmo Installation. Similar to the netatmo weather station or the netatmo thermostat, the netatmo welcome comes in a sleek modern design. The netatmo weather map is a good feature to mention in a netatmo review. With this in mind wireless security cameras can become a useful tool. home security camera system; Use wireless security cameras or so called wireless security camera systems for more safety.