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
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5. Modes, Rules, and Alerts
You can arm or disarm your Arlo cameras and devices, and you can set up a schedule to
automatically arm each device. When your camera is armed, it detects motion. Modes and
rules let you tell your Arlo system what to do automatically in dierent situations. For
example, you can set your Arlo system to record a video when it detects motion and send you
an email alert.
Arm or disarm all your Arlo devices
You can arm or disarm all your Arlo devices simultaneously. Doing this deactivates other
modes, such as Schedule, Geofencing, and Custom modes for all your Arlo devices. To return
a device to another mode, select the device and then select a mode.
To arm or disarm all your Arlo devices:
1. Open the Arlo app.
2. Tap Modes.
3. Tap Arm All Devices or Disarm All Devices.
Modes
Arlo modes give you control over how your Arlo cameras respond to motion. For example, you
probably don’t want to receive an alert about motion in your yard in the daytime when you’re
gardening. You might want to turn on a dierent mode when you’re away on vacation. Modes
let you tell your cameras to respond dierently at dierent times.
The Arlo app comes with these modes:
Armed. Detection is on for this camera.
Disarmed. Detection is o for this camera.
Schedule. Manage detection based on a schedule.
Geofencing. You can arm, disarm, or resume a schedule mode when you
arrive at, or leave, a given location based on your mobile device location.