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
29Modes, Rules, and Alerts
Arlo Essential Series Wire-Free Camera
User Manual
You can customize the Armed and Schedule modes and you can add new modes. You might
want to create a mode in which some cameras are active but others aren’t. For example, when
you’re sleeping, you might want to arm your outdoor camera and disarm your indoor camera.
You can create dierent modes for the same camera, but the camera can only use one mode
at a time.
Select a mode
You can select a mode or set modes to activate according to a schedule.
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 a mode to activate it.
The mode turns on immediately. The mode stays active until you change it.
Mute Notications
Mute Notications temporarily silences push notications to your mobile device, while videos
continue to be recorded. This is great for a party when you don’t need to be notied of friends
in your backyard.
You can mute notications from the Arlo app. If you use Arlo Smart, you can also activate Mute
Notications directly from push notications.
To mute notications:
1. Open the Arlo app.
2. Tap Settings > Mute Notications.
3. Select the length of time to mute notications.
A message displays conrming that you are muting notications. The Mute Notication
status shows the amount of remaining time until notications resume.
To unmute notications
1. Open the Arlo app.
2. Tap Settings > Mute Notications > Unmute.
The Mute Notications status changes to O.