User Manual
Table Of Contents
- 1. Get to Know Your Arlo Pro 3 Camera
- 2. Get Started
- Connect your SmartHub to the Internet
- The SmartHub LED
- Use the Arlo app for installation and setup
- Insert the battery into your camera
- The camera battery
- The Arlo Pro 3 Camera LED
- Tips for optimal WiFi performance
- Magnetic mount
- Install the Arlo Outdoor Mount
- Connect your camera to the Arlo solar panel (sold separately)
- Your Arlo Pro 3 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 Pro 3 Basics
- 4. Image Quality Features
- 5. 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
- Manage alerts
- Schedule your camera rules
- Set up Arlo Geofencing
- Geofencing with multiple mobile devices
- Detect audio alarms with your Pro 3 Camera
- 6. Change Your Settings
- 7. USB Storage
- 8. Arlo Connect
- 9. FAQs and Troubleshooting
- 10. Rechargeable battery safety
46Modes, Rules, and Alerts
Pro 3 Wire-Free Security Camera System
User Manual
Test the Alarm Detection range
After a successful compatibility test, we recommend that you test the Alarm Detection
range when you move your camera to a different location.
1. Place your Arlo Pro 3 Camera in the desired location.
2. Open the Arlo app.
3. Make sure that your Pro 3 Camera is in Armed mode or another mode in which it
can detect sound and motion.
4. Make sure that you selected Smoke/CO Alarm in the Audio Alerts setting for your
camera and that Other Audio is turned off.
5. Close the Arlo app, but don’t log out.
6. Use the test button on your smoke or carbon monoxide detector to activate the
alarm for 30 seconds.
7. After a successful test, aim the camera toward the area of highest interest so that
you can view the relevant videos when you get a notication.
Turn off audio detection
Audio detection must be turned on if you’re using audio alerts so that your camera
wakes up when there is a sound. To turn off audio detection, you must rst turn off
Audio Alerts.
1. Open the Arlo app.
2. Tap Settings > Smart Notications.
3. Select a camera.
4. In the Audio Alerts section, deselect the slider next to Smoke/CO Alarm and All
Other Audio settings.
5. Return to Settings.
6. Tap Smart Notications, and deselect the slider next to Detects Audio.
Turn off push notications after using audio detection
Push notications must be turned on when you’re using Arlo Smart audio detection.
After you turn off audio detection and audio alerts, you can edit rules to turn off push
notications. (See Turn off audio detection and audio alerts on page 46.)