User Manual
Table Of Contents
- 1. Get to Know Your Doorbell
- 2. Get Started
- 3. WiFi Setup and Connections
- WiFi connection options for your doorbell
- Tips for optimal WiFi performance
- Connect your mobile device to a 2.4 GHz WiFi network during setup
- Connect an optional Arlo SmartHub
- Connect an optional Arlo Base Station with Siren
- Move your doorbell’s WiFi connection to a SmartHub or base station
- Move your doorbell’s WiFi connection to a direct router connection
- 4. Optional Arlo Chime 2
- 5. Use Your Doorbell
- 6. View and Record Videos
- 7. Change Your Settings
- Two-step verification
- Use face or fingerprint authentication
- Customize your profile
- Change your Arlo password
- Reset a forgotten password
- Grant access to friends
- Change the time zone
- Doorbell settings
- Adjust the flicker setting
- Optional SmartHub and Base Station settings
- View device information
- Remove a device from your account
- Restart the doorbell from the Arlo app
- 8. Modes, Rules, and Alerts
- Arm or disarm all your Arlo devices
- Modes
- Select a mode
- Mute Notifications
- Rules for modes
- Trigger a Chime 2 when the doorbell is pressed
- Change motion sensitivity
- Automatically stop recording when motion stops
- Add a rule with a base station siren trigger
- Manage alerts
- Schedule when your doorbell camera is armed
- Set up Arlo Geofencing
- Geofencing with multiple mobile devices
- Use your doorbell to trigger a camera to record
- 9. SmartHub SD Card Local Storage
- 10. SmartHub or Base Station USB Local Storage
- 11. Arlo Connect
- 12. Troubleshooting
- The doorbell doesn’t scan the QR code in the Arlo app during setup
- Arlo doesn’t discover your doorbell during setup
- Use Bypass mode for the Power Kit
- Traditional chime doesn’t ring when I press the doorbell
- Doorbell LED doesn’t light
- Power interruption notification
- Remove the doorbell from its mount
- Reset the doorbell
- Can’t see video streams in a browser
- Not receiving push notifications
- Troubleshoot Arlo Geofencing
- Scan the QR code during Chime 2 setup
- Arlo doesn’t discover Chime 2 during setup
- Chime 2 doesn’t ring when the doorbell is pressed
- Reset your Arlo Chime 2
- Verify that an optional SmartHub or base station is online
- The SmartHub or base station is offline
- Reset a SmartHub to factory settings
- Reset a Base Station to factory settings
14Get Started
Essential Video Doorbell Wired
User Manual
Installing with an angled mounting plate depends on the position of the doorbell and the
walkway to your home. The angled mounting plate lets you install your doorbell so that it
is angled toward the le or angled toward the right.
4. Follow the instructions in the Arlo app to connect the wires and install your doorbell.
5. Turn on power at the breaker.
6. Check the LED on the front of your wired Arlo Essential Video Doorbell. See LED during
setup on page 15.
7. Connect your wired Arlo Essential Video Doorbell to your home network’s 2.4 GHz WiFi.
Use the optional wire extensions
Two identical wire extensions and fasteners come in the package with your wired Arlo
Essential Video Doorbell.
If the existing wires for your doorbell are too short to connect your wired Arlo Essential Video
Doorbell you can use the wire extensions and fasteners to lengthen the wires.
To connect wire extensions to your wired Arlo Essential Video Doorbell:
1. Remove the rubber ends from the wire extensions.
Fastener
Wire extension
Arlo Video
Doorbell
Mounting
plate
Angled
mounting wedge
(optional)