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Arlo Essential Camera recorded bright white light

Vh_68 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:40:49 GMT

At 5:16 am, 5:17am and 5:18 am the camera recognized an animal it states. But the only thing we seen was a bright white distorted light. What could have caused it to record like that? It recorded 3 separate videos of this same distortion.

The camera is fine now viewing live. Recored fine at 8pm and has been fine in the past.

Re: Arlo Essential Camera recorded bright white light

StephenB — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:55:43 GMT

@Vh_68 wrote:

At 5:16 am, 5:17am and 5:18 am the camera recognized an animal it states. But the only thing we seen was a bright white distorted light.

Clearly the AI classification is incorrect.

@Vh_68 wrote:

But the only thing we seen was a bright white distorted light.

Is your camera set to use low-light color at night? Or is it using infrared (Nightvision)?

This looks like lens flare (caused by something small very close to the camera spotlight)

Re: Arlo Essential Camera recorded bright white light

jguerdat — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 14:27:58 GMT

Or a bright light aimed right at the camera. That could be car headlights (maybe later in the video or a separate video just before or after those 3 recordings) or someone pointing a laser pointer at the camera.