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
24Use Your Essential Series Camera
Arlo Essential Series Wire-Free Camera
User Manual
7. To reposition or resize the zone, tap and hold the zone and move it.
8. To customize the zone name, tap Edit
and enter a name.
If you’re using a web browser, click > next to the zone name.
9. Tap Save.
Delete an activity zone
1. Open the Arlo app.
2. Tap Settings > My Devices.
3. Select the camera.
4. Under VIDEO, tap Activity Zones.
5. Tap a zone to select it.
6. Delete the device.
On an iOS device, slide the motion detection zone to the le and tap Delete.
On an Android device, slide the motion detection zone to the le.
2-Way Audio
The camera includes a microphone that supports 2-Way Audio.
1. Open the Arlo app.
2. Tap the camera feed image.
3. Tap the microphone icon
.
4. The rst time you use 2-Way Audio, allow Arlo to use your phone’s microphone.
5. Tap the microphone button.
2-Way Audio is activated.
A Tap to mute microphone button displays below the camera feed. This button toggles
mute on and o.
6. To turn o 2-Way Audio, tap the x on the upper-le corner of the page.