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
43Change Your Settings
Arlo Essential Series Wire-Free Camera
User Manual
5. Tap the link provided in that email.
6. Enter a new password.
7. Tap Submit.
Your password is reset.
Grant access to friends
You can add friends to your Arlo account. Friends can view live streams from your cameras;
record video clips; view, share, mark as favorite, and delete clips from your library; and take
snapshots. Friends are granted limited access to some of the settings and features of your
Arlo account. You can select which cameras friends can see and what administrative rights are
available to them.
Friends without access rights can:
• Play and view library content.
• View live footage.
• Zoom and drag video footage.
• Control brightness.
• Enter full-screen view.
Friends who are granted access rights can also:
• Play and pause video footage.
• Record video footage.
• Mute the speaker.
• Access and change modes.
• View motion detection statuses.
• Manually record.
• Take snapshots.
• Mark as a favorite, share, download, and delete video footage.
• Use a camera’s microphone.
Add a friend
1. Open the Arlo app.
2. Tap Settings.