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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4. Use Your Essential Series Camera
When you open the Arlo app, the Devices page displays your camera feeds.
Camera
icon
Located below each camera
feed
Camera
feed icon
Tap the camera feed to display
these icons
Battery charge
Play/Stop
WiFi signal from your WiFi router,
SmartHub, or base station
Mute the audio
Motion detection is on Talk and Listen
View or change the camera settings Record video manually
(requires cloud storage)
Take a snapshot
(requires cloud storage)
(Essential Spotlight Camera and Essential
Spotlight XL Camera) Turn the camera
spotlight on and o.
This camera is disarmed
Tap a button to go
to Devices, Library,
Modes, or Settings
This camera is armed
and detecting motion
Tap Play
to stream
the camera feed
Tap to turn the siren
on and o manually
Number of new recordings
Tap to view device settings
for the camera