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
52SmartHub SD Card Storage
Arlo Essential Series Wire-Free Camera
User Manual
View the SD card status
1. Open the Arlo app.
2. Tap SmartHub/Base Station/Bridge.
3. Check the SD card icon
. When a microSD card is inserted in the SmartHub, this icon is
amber
.
4. To view more information about the microSD card status, under LOCAL STORAGE, tap
Storage Settings.
The SD Card Status displays GOOD or indicates if the SD card needs to be formatted, or is
full. The Arlo app also noties you if the card needs to be formatted or is full.
View available SD card storage
The Arlo app noties you if the SD card is getting full, but you can also view the available
storage.
1. Open the Arlo app.
2. Tap SmartHub/Base Station/Bridge > Storage Settings.
The Available Storage eld displays the amount of storage available on the SD card.
Turn SD card recording o and on
1. Open the Arlo app.
2. Tap SmartHub/Base Station/Bridge
3. Select the SmartHub.
4. Tap Storage Settings > SD Card Recording.
SD card recording toggles o and on.
Change the SD card overwrite setting
By default, if the SD card lls up, the oldest Arlo recording is erased to make room for new
recordings. Files on the SD card that aren’t in the Arlo folder aren’t deleted to make room
for Arlo recordings. You can change the setting so that no Arlo recordings are automatically
erased.
1. Open the Arlo app.
2. Tap Base Station & Bridge > Storage Settings.