topic Re: Smart Notifications in Arlo Essential Wire-Free Cameras

Smart Notifications

Yoandme — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 19:51:52 GMT

I have set Smart Notifications to be enabled for person's, animals and vehicles with"All other motion" disabled. I continue to get general "motion" notifications which eat up the battery. It appears that the notifications are being triggered by things like tree limbs blowing in the wind.

Is this something I am going to have to live with?

Re: Smart Notifications

StephenB — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 00:18:05 GMT

@Yoandme wrote:

I have set Smart Notifications to be enabled for person's, animals and vehicles with"All other motion" disabled. I continue to get general "motion" notifications which eat up the battery.

The smart notifications only filter the notifications. They don't improve power use, because the camera continues to record all motion events.

The only options you have to reduce power use are to

re-position the camera to eliminate as much unwanted motion as you can
reduce the motion sensitivity

Re: Smart Notifications

Yoandme — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 00:44:10 GMT

Thank you for the clarification. I thought that might be the answer and I will be trying both options.