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
32Modes, Rules, and Alerts
Arlo Essential Series Wire-Free Camera
User Manual
4. Tap Edit next to the mode.
5. Under Rules, select the camera.
6. Select the Turn Siren ON check box.
7. Tap Sound Alarm.
8. Move the sliders to the desired level for Siren Duration and Siren Loudness.
9. Tap Edit
next to the rule.
10. Tap Done.
Note: This rule isn’t active until you activate the mode to which you added the siren trigger.
Manage alerts
Arlo can push notications to your smartphone, send you email alerts, or do both. To receive
Arlo notications on your phone, you must install the Arlo app on your phone.
Note: If you log out of the Arlo app on your smartphone or mobile device, you will stop
receiving push notications.
1. Open the Arlo app.
2. Tap Mode.
3. Select your camera or your optional Arlo SmartHub or base station, if you use one.
A list of modes displays.
4. Tap Edit
next to the mode.
Note: The Disarmed mode does not send alerts.
5. Under Alert, tap Push Notication to turn alerts on and o for your mobile device.
6. Under Alert, tap Email Alerts to turn email notications on and o.
7. To specify an email address, tap Edit
next to Email Alerts and enter the email address.
Schedule when your camera is armed
You can set a schedule to specify the days and times during the week when your camera is
set to respond to motion triggers. Schedules recur weekly. For example, the schedule for
Tuesday repeats every Tuesday as long as the schedule is turned on.