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
54Modes, Rules, and Alerts
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User Manual
You can customize the Armed and Schedule modes and you can add new modes. You might
want to create a mode in which some cameras are active but others aren’t. For example, when
you’re sleeping, you might want to arm your outdoor camera and disarm your indoor camera.
You can create dierent modes for the same camera, but the camera can only use one mode
at a time.
Select a mode
You can select a mode or set modes to activate according to a schedule.
1. Open the Arlo app.
2. Tap Mode.
3. Tap the doorbell.
A list of modes displays.
4. Tap a mode to activate it.
The mode that you selected turns on. The mode stays active until you change it.
Mute Notications
Mute Notications temporarily silences push notications to your mobile device, while videos
continue to be recorded. This is great for a party when you don’t want to be disturbed. You
can mute notications from the Arlo app. If you use Arlo Smart, you can also activate Mute
Notications directly from push notications.
To mute notications:
1. Open the Arlo app.
2. Tap Settings > Mute Notications.
3. Select the length of time to mute notications.
A message displays conrming that you’re muting notications. The Mute Notication
status shows the amount of remaining time until notications resume.
To unmute notications
1. Open the Arlo app.
2. Tap Settings > Mute Notications > Unmute.
The Mute Notications status changes to O.