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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7. SmartHub SD Card Storage
The SmartHub model VMB5000 supports SD card storage. If you use your camera with the
SmartHub VMB5000, you can use this feature.
You can insert a microSD card into the slot in your SmartHub VMB5000 and store your Arlo
recordings both in the cloud and on the SD card. If the SmartHub isn’t connected to the
internet, recordings continue to be saved on the microSD card. If you have an active live
stream connection between an Arlo Ultra camera and a SmartHub, you can record to a
microSD card. Your Arlo app noties you when the SD card is low on storage space or is full.
MicroSD card format
Your SmartHub accepts SDHC or SDXC microSD cards. We recommend using microSD cards
with a minimum of 16 GB capacity, Speed Class 10, UHS-1, V10. Your Arlo SmartHub supports
up to Class 10 UHS-3 V90.
If your microSD card isn’t formatted, or is formatted with an incompatible le system, you can
use your Arlo app to format the microSD card. See Format a microSD card on page 53.
Insert a microSD card
1. Insert the microSD card into the slot on the bottom of the SmartHub.
2. Press the edge of the microSD card until it’s completely seated in the slot.