https://community.arlo.com/t5/Arlo-Pro/Rules-and-schedules/m-p/1448694#M26729 <P>Welcome to the group!<BR />Back when I had 5 cameras, I had two in my front yard, one down each side of the house, one in the backyard.<BR />The two in the front yard had one looking straight out and one at 90 degrees to that on a side fence with a black skin on a black fence. The two front yard cameras not only detect motion and record, but they also trigger the other one to record.</P> <P>So, my rules were<BR />Front Door detects motion and Front Door records for 30 seconds<BR />Driveway detects motion and Driveway records for 30s<BR />Front door detects motion and Driveway records for 45s<BR />Driveway detects motion and Front Door records for 45 seconds<BR />Kitchen side of house detects motion and Kitchen side of house records until motion stops<BR />Garage side of house detects motion and garage side of house records until motion stops<BR />Backyard detects motion and records until motion stops<BR /><BR />7 rules for 5 cameras since there is cross triggering of the two cameras.<BR />I also found that during the day, cars driving past would reflect a lot of IR so I had to turn down the motion sensitivity of the cameras that could see the road, but I didn't want to have a delay in detecting people at night.<BR />I made two custom modes, Day, Night.&nbsp;<BR />Night has all the same rules as Day except all the motion sensitivities are either 100 or close to 100, whereas some of the Day sensitivities are in the 70s.&nbsp;<BR />I use the schedule to automatically change between Day and Night modes.<BR /><BR />I considered playing with Geofencing as well to have the backyard camera disarmed while I'm home but I'm pretty happy with the schedule and the backyard either doesn't get triggered a huge amount or I manually change to another mode where the backyard camera doesn't have a rule and thus is disabled. Just gotta remember to change back to Schedule mode afterwards<BR /><BR />Hope that's not too confusing!</P> Wed, 06 Dec 2017 03:30:50 GMT steve_t 2017-12-06T03:30:50Z https://community.arlo.com/t5/Arlo-Pro/Rules-and-schedules/m-p/1448664#M26727 I am new and trying to get some ideas on setting up some rules and a schedule. I'd love to hear about some of your setups and how you got your rules set. I've got a five camera system and haven't set up all my rules yet.<BR /><BR />Thanks Wed, 06 Dec 2017 02:30:29 GMT https://community.arlo.com/t5/Arlo-Pro/Rules-and-schedules/m-p/1448664#M26727 Scott2ya 2017-12-06T02:30:29Z https://community.arlo.com/t5/Arlo-Pro/Rules-and-schedules/m-p/1448694#M26729 <P>Welcome to the group!<BR />Back when I had 5 cameras, I had two in my front yard, one down each side of the house, one in the backyard.<BR />The two in the front yard had one looking straight out and one at 90 degrees to that on a side fence with a black skin on a black fence. The two front yard cameras not only detect motion and record, but they also trigger the other one to record.</P> <P>So, my rules were<BR />Front Door detects motion and Front Door records for 30 seconds<BR />Driveway detects motion and Driveway records for 30s<BR />Front door detects motion and Driveway records for 45s<BR />Driveway detects motion and Front Door records for 45 seconds<BR />Kitchen side of house detects motion and Kitchen side of house records until motion stops<BR />Garage side of house detects motion and garage side of house records until motion stops<BR />Backyard detects motion and records until motion stops<BR /><BR />7 rules for 5 cameras since there is cross triggering of the two cameras.<BR />I also found that during the day, cars driving past would reflect a lot of IR so I had to turn down the motion sensitivity of the cameras that could see the road, but I didn't want to have a delay in detecting people at night.<BR />I made two custom modes, Day, Night.&nbsp;<BR />Night has all the same rules as Day except all the motion sensitivities are either 100 or close to 100, whereas some of the Day sensitivities are in the 70s.&nbsp;<BR />I use the schedule to automatically change between Day and Night modes.<BR /><BR />I considered playing with Geofencing as well to have the backyard camera disarmed while I'm home but I'm pretty happy with the schedule and the backyard either doesn't get triggered a huge amount or I manually change to another mode where the backyard camera doesn't have a rule and thus is disabled. Just gotta remember to change back to Schedule mode afterwards<BR /><BR />Hope that's not too confusing!</P> Wed, 06 Dec 2017 03:30:50 GMT https://community.arlo.com/t5/Arlo-Pro/Rules-and-schedules/m-p/1448694#M26729 steve_t 2017-12-06T03:30:50Z https://community.arlo.com/t5/Arlo-Pro/Rules-and-schedules/m-p/1448735#M26731 Yeah that makes sense after playing with the rules. I kept messing mine up. Front door senses motion front door records. Drive way senses motion front door records. Deck senses motion front door records....etc. didn't notice I had to tell it to switch camera. I really like that I can have multiple rules for the same camera. I think I am going to really like this Arlo. Wed, 06 Dec 2017 04:41:28 GMT https://community.arlo.com/t5/Arlo-Pro/Rules-and-schedules/m-p/1448735#M26731 Scott2ya 2017-12-06T04:41:28Z