topic Re: Automation location and schedule trigger empty motion events in Arlo Essential Outdoor 2nd Gen

Automation location and schedule trigger empty motion events

Jbg1809 — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 22:23:26 GMT

Hello

i have routines based on location and schedule. When the system goes into arm away mode thanks to the routines it sends me a motion event for each of the cameras (VMC2050) at the specific moment they go into arm away mode. These events are useless and a bit polluting my feed for nothing … otherwise the rest is working fine

any idea ?

thanks for the help

Re: Automation location and schedule trigger empty motion events

BrookeN — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:47:56 GMT

Are you still seeing this same behavior?

Re: Automation location and schedule trigger empty motion events

Jbg1809 — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 05:08:00 GMT

Yes, it’s very annoying

Re: Automation location and schedule trigger empty motion events

BrookeN — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 14:36:59 GMT

The link below may be helpful to insure that those are set up correctly:

https://kb.arlo.com/000062777/About-Arlo-Routines-Modes-Rules-and-Automations

As well we this one:

https://kb.arlo.com/1085093/How-does-Arlo-Geofencing-work-and-how-do-I-set-it-up

Re: Automation location and schedule trigger empty motion events

Jbg1809 — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 14:43:18 GMT

Thanks

it’s setup properly , the features are working fine and do what I want… except the bug that when geofencing enable the arm away mode , then right away, each camera record a 10sec motion. That’s creating one false positive per camera every time the Geo fencing enable the arm away mode…

Re: Automation location and schedule trigger empty motion events

Jbg1809 — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 14:44:57 GMT

You can see on the screenshot

Re: Automation location and schedule trigger empty motion events

BrookeN — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 14:46:21 GMT

I see what you are meaning now, that is interesting. Let me reach out to the development team, I will reach back out to you soon.

Re: Automation location and schedule trigger empty motion events

StephenB — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 14:58:54 GMT

@Jbg1809 wrote:

it’s setup properly , the features are working fine and do what I want… except the bug that when geofencing enable the arm away mode , then right away, each camera record a 10sec motion. That’s creating one false positive per camera every time the Geo fencing enable the arm away mode…

Although I suspect this is not the cause, just in case ...

Make sure the automations don't include an action for the cameras to record. Record actions are tagged as "motion" - no idea why.

Re: Automation location and schedule trigger empty motion events

Jbg1809 — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 15:30:52 GMT

No there is no action to record in the automation

Re: Automation location and schedule trigger empty motion events

BrookeN — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:42:51 GMT

@Jbg1809 can you please do a test automation. To do a test automation for the Leave Automation. Routines->Automations->Leave->Test Automation - this will change the mode to Arm Away. Let me know if it triggers a recording.