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
21Use Your Essential Series Camera
Arlo Essential Series Wire-Free Camera
User Manual
View your camera feeds
1. Open the Arlo app.
2. Tap Play
on the camera feed.
The camera feed updates and camera feed icons display.
3. To stop viewing and listening to the live feed, tap Stop
.
Pan and zoom video
You can pan and zoom your video feed.
1. Open the Arlo app.
2. Tap Play
on the camera feed.
On a mobile device, use the pinch gesture to zoom, and touch and drag to move around
the zoomed-in frame.
On a computer, double-click to zoom. Le-click and hold and drag to move around the
zoomed-in frame.
Aer zooming in, the image stops and buers for about ve seconds to improve the quality
of video. When the buering stops, your zoomed-in video renders in high quality.
Record clips from live video
1. Open the Arlo app.
2. Tap the camera feed image.
3. Tap Record
to begin recording.
This icon turns red to indicate that you are recording the live feed.
4. To stop recording, tap Record
again.
Take a snapshot from live video
1. Open the Arlo app.
2. Tap the camera feed image.
3. Tap Snapshot
.
The snapshot is saved in your library.