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
26Use Your Essential Series Camera
Arlo Essential Series Wire-Free Camera
User Manual
3. Tap a highlighted date.
Recordings from that date display below the calendar.
Use the lter
You can use the lter to nd and view recordings based on criteria that you select.
1. Open the Arlo app.
2. Tap Library.
3. Tap Filter in the upper le corner of the page.
4. Tap the ltering criteria that you want to use.
5. Tap Done.
Turn o the lter
1. Open the Arlo app.
2. Tap Library.
3. Tap Filter in the upper le corner of the page.
4. Tap Reset.
5. Tap Done.
Download recordings
1. Open the Arlo app.
2. Tap Library.
3. Tap a recording.
4. Tap Download.
5. Tap OK to conrm.
Make a recording a favorite
1. Open the Arlo app.
2. Tap Library.
3. Tap a recording.
4. Tap Favorite.