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
64Troubleshooting
Arlo Essential Series Wire-Free Camera
User Manual
Troubleshoot Arlo Geofencing
Note: Selecting Modes > Arm All Devices or Disarm All Devices deactivates Geofencing mode.
To activate Geofencing mode, tap Modes, select your Arlo device, and then select Geofencing.
Each Arlo user has a unique setup environment. These are the most common geofencing
issues.
• Your mobile device isn’t sharing its location information with Arlo. See
Prepare your mobile
device for geofencing on page 34.
• Away mode isn’t triggered when you leave because an extra mobile device that’s enabled
for geofencing is still in the Device Location. See Geofencing with multiple mobile devices
on page 35.
• Geofencing stopped working because the location sharing settings for a mobile device
changed. See Prepare your mobile device for geofencing on page 34.
• A task-killing app is interfering with Arlo Geofencing. A task-killing app, such as Shutapp or
Doze, can disable Arlo Geofencing. To use Arlo Geofencing, disable any apps that suppress
the Arlo app.
• Geofencing for your mobile device on your friend’s Arlo account isn’t working.
If you’re a friend on someone else’s Arlo account, your mobile device can only change
Home/Away modes if the Arlo account owner does the following:
• Turn on the Allow Access Rights setting. See
Grant access to friends on page 43.
• Set your device as an Enabled Device in Geofencing settings. See
Enable or disable
geofencing for friends’ mobile devices
on page 36.
Still experiencing issues with geofencing? Contact Arlo Customer Support.
Can’t see video streams in a browser
Your router might be blocking the ports to which Arlo sends data. To make sure that Arlo can
stay connected, you must keep ports 443 and 80 open on your router.
To troubleshoot problems with the video stream, check for the conditions in these sections:
WiFi signal interference on page 64, Out of range on page 65 and Low battery on page
65.
WiFi signal interference
Environments with multiple WiFi networks, WiFi devices, or frequencies can cause signal
interference. If possible, minimize the number of networks, WiFi devices, and transmitted