User Manual
Table Of Contents
- 1. Get to Know Your Ultra 2 Camera
- 2. Get Started
- Use the Arlo app for installation and setup
- Connect your SmartHub to the Internet
- Connect a Base Station with Siren
- Insert the battery into your camera
- The camera battery
- The Arlo Ultra Camera LED
- Tips for optimal WiFi performance
- Magnetic mount
- Install the Arlo Outdoor Mount
- Install an Anti-Theft Mount
- Connect your camera to the Arlo solar panel (sold separately)
- Your Arlo Ultra camera’s field of view
- Position your camera to detect motion in specific areas
- Test motion detection
- Arm your camera to detect motion
- 3. Arlo Ultra Basics
- 4. Access your Arlo account
- 5. Ultra Image Quality Features
- 6. Modes, Rules, and Alerts
- Modes
- Select a mode
- Mute Notifications
- Rules for modes
- Change motion sensitivity
- Automatically stop recording when motion stops
- Control whether the spotlight turns on when motion is detected at night
- Change audio sensitivity
- Add a rule with a base station siren trigger
- Manage alerts
- Schedule your camera rules
- Set up Arlo Geofencing
- Geofencing with multiple mobile devices
- Custom modes
- Detect audio alarms with your Ultra camera
- 7. Change Your Arlo Settings
- 8. Use SD Card Storage
- 9. USB Storage
- 10. Arlo Connect
- 11. FAQs and Troubleshooting
- FAQs
- Battery FAQs
- The Arlo app doesn’t recognize my device
- Troubleshoot two-step verification
- Activity zones and CVR aren’t working
- Troubleshoot Arlo Geofencing
- Can’t see video streams in a browser
- WiFi signal interference
- Not receiving push notification alerts
- Arlo Smart Alarm Detection isn’t working
- Verify that the SmartHub or base station is online
- The SmartHub or base station is offline
- Reset the SmartHub to factory settings
- Reset a Base Station to factory settings
- 12. Rechargeable Battery Safety
48Modes, Rules, and Alerts
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User Manual
Note: The Disarmed mode does not send alerts.
5. Under Alert, tap Push Notication to turn alerts on and o for your mobile device.
6. Under Alert, tap Email Alerts to turn email notications on and o.
7. To specify an email address, tap Edit
next to Email Alerts and enter the email address.
For information about Arlo Smart Alarm Detection, see Detect audio alarms with your Ultra
camera on page 53.
Schedule your camera rules
You can set a schedule to arm and disarm cameras automatically. Schedules recur weekly.
For example, the schedule for Tuesday repeats every Tuesday as long as the schedule is
turned on. Your cameras are automatically set with this schedule:
• Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. All motion sensors are on.
• All other times. All motion sensors are o.
Add a schedule
1. Open the Arlo app.
2. Tap Mode.
3. Tap the SmartHub.
4. Tap Schedule
.
5. Tap Edit
next to Schedule.
6. Tap + Add.
7. Set the days and times for your new schedule.
Note: To add an overnight schedule such as 8:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m., you need to add two
separate schedules. First, add 8:00 p.m. to 11:59 p.m., then add 12:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m.
8. Tap Done.
Edit a schedule
1. Open the Arlo app.
2. Tap Mode.
3. Tap the SmartHub.