topic Re: How do I enable an individual device? in Arlo Essential Outdoor 2nd Gen

How do I enable an individual device?

KristVB — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 16:28:23 GMT

I just bought 4 Arlo Essential Outdoor cameras. I managed to onboard them in the app. But I see that I can enable or disable all of them. I need to be able to disable/enable them individually. How do I do that?

Re: How do I enable an individual device?

StephenB — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 19:33:35 GMT

@KristVB wrote:

I just bought 4 Arlo Essential Outdoor cameras. I managed to onboard them in the app. But I see that I can enable or disable all of them. I need to be able to disable/enable them individually. How do I do that?

Do you mean manually, or is this something you want to schedule?

One method (manual) is to go into the device settings for the camera and temporarily turn it off. The main differences between "off" and "disarmed" are that

a camera that is "off" needs to be turned on again before you can live stream it.
a camera that is "off" will not not follow any schedule until you turn it back on.

Re: How do I enable an individual device?

KristVB — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 07:15:22 GMT

It used to be possible to individually arm/disarm cameras. And to create custom modes. That has all gone, which makes them less usefull.

As a workaround I currently use on of the modes for that, and just add/remove cameras from it on an as need basis. But this needs to be fixed. Arlo will not get good reviews until they do that.

Re: How do I enable an individual device?

StephenB — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 16:53:37 GMT

@KristVB wrote:

It used to be possible to individually arm/disarm cameras. And to create custom modes. That has all gone, which makes them less usefull.

I agree this needs to be addressed by Arlo.

I find it simpler to go into the device settings and turn the camera off/on. @jguerdat prefers to edit the rules.