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
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User Manual
3. Tap the Format USB Device button.
4. Wait for USB Device Status to change from Formatting to Ready.
Safely eject a USB storage device
It’s important to safely remove the USB device from your SmartHub. If you remove a
USB device while information is being recorded on it, the USB device might become
permanently unusable or the les on the USB device might be corrupted.
1. Open the Arlo app.
2. Tap SmartHub/Base Station/Bridge > Local Storage.
3. Tap Safely Eject USB Device.
4. Wait for the Unmounting USB storage device progress message to close.
5. Disconnect your USB storage device from your SmartHub.
Warning: Do not interrupt power to the SmartHub or remove the USB device
while unmounting the USB device.
6. The USB icon changes to gray
indicating that no USB device is connected.
USB recording is disabled until you connect another USB device.
View videos on a USB device
Video clips on USB storage devices don’t display in the Arlo app, but you can use a
Windows-based or Mac computer to view the clips.
1. Safely eject the USB storage device.
For more information, see Safely eject a USB storage device.
2. Connect the USB storage device that you ejected to a Windows-based computer
or a Mac computer.
3. Wait for the USB storage device to appear in the list of available drives on your
computer, and then open the drive folder to view the les on your USB storage
device.
4. Open the Arlo folder.
Recorded videos are saved in this folder in MP4 format. Video les are named
according to this system: camera serial number_video number_date_video clip
tag. Dates are in the format YYYYMMDD.
Note: If you’re unable to play MP4 les on your computer, update your media player
software to the latest version and try again.