User Manual
Table Of Contents
- 1. Get to Know Your Essential Series Camera
- 2. Get Started
- Use the Arlo app for installation and setup
- Charge your camera indoors
- Use the sync button to wake the camera
- Check the LED
- Find a good location for your camera
- Wall mount your camera
- Connect an optional Essential Solar Panel (sold separately)
- Test motion detection
- Position your camera to detect motion in specific areas
- Arm your camera to detect motion
- 3. WiFi Setup and Connections
- 4. Use Your Essential Series Camera
- 5. Modes, Rules, and Alerts
- Arm or disarm all your Arlo devices
- Modes
- Select a mode
- Mute Notifications
- Rules for modes
- Change motion sensitivity
- Control whether the spotlight turns on when motion is detected
- Use a rule to activate the camera’s siren
- Add a rule with an optional base station siren trigger
- Manage alerts
- Schedule when your camera is armed
- Set up Arlo Geofencing
- Geofencing with multiple mobile devices
- Custom modes
- 6. 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
- Camera settings
- Video Settings
- Adjust the audio settings
- Adjust the flicker setting
- Restart the camera from the Arlo app
- View device information
- Remove a device from your account
- Optional SmartHub and Base Station settings
- 7. SmartHub SD Card Storage
- 8. SmartHub or Base Station USB Storage
- 9. Arlo Connect
- 10. Troubleshooting
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Contents
1. Get to Know Your Essential Series Camera 5
Get the Arlo app ................................................................................................................................... 5
Meet your Essential Camera .............................................................................................................. 6
Meet your Essential Spotlight Camera ............................................................................................ 7
Meet your Essential XL Spotlight Camera ....................................................................................... 8
Do more with Arlo ................................................................................................................................ 9
2. Get Started 10
Use the Arlo app for installation and setup .................................................................................. 10
Charge your camera indoors ........................................................................................................... 10
Use the sync button to wake the camera ..................................................................................... 11
Check the LED .................................................................................................................................... 12
Find a good location for your camera ........................................................................................... 12
Wall mount your camera .................................................................................................................. 12
Connect an optional Essential Solar Panel (sold separately) ................................................... 13
Test motion detection ...................................................................................................................... 13
Position your camera to detect motion in specic areas .......................................................... 14
Arm your camera to detect motion ................................................................................................ 15
3. WiFi Setup and Connections 16
WiFi connection options .................................................................................................................. 16
Tips for optimal WiFi performance ................................................................................................ 16
Connect your mobile device to a 2.4 GHz WiFi network during setup .................................... 17
Move your camera’s WiFi connection to a SmartHub or base station .................................... 18
Move your camera’s WiFi connection to a direct router connection ...................................... 19
4. Use Your Essential Series Camera 20
View your camera feeds ................................................................................................................... 21
Record clips from live video............................................................................................................. 21
Take a snapshot from live video ..................................................................................................... 21
Turn the camera spotlight on and o manually .......................................................................... 22
Motion detection activity zones ...................................................................................................... 23
2-Way Audio ........................................................................................................................................ 24