topic Re: What's The Best Mode for a Retail Boutique ? in Arlo Pro 2

What's The Best Mode for a Retail Boutique ?

RivieraTowel — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 22:04:44 GMT

We purchased the Arlo Pro2 3-pack to keep an eye on our merchandise by day and as an alarm by night.

The only issue is getting all these motion alerts by day.

We want to record the motion in the store by day, but we don't want all these crazy alerts that motion is beting captured.

Then at night we want to only be notified when something enters one of the zones we've set up.

Can someone please help us figure out the best way to set up Arlo so we're not getting alerts by day and recording and only recording motion for a week ?

Thanks

Albert

The Riviera Towel Co.

Santa Barbara, CA

Re: What's The Best Mode for a Retail Boutique ?

slompochomp — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 09:39:48 GMT

You will want to Add a Mode for your Night and one for Day. Day Mode without the Alarm & Push Notifications unselected and Night with the Alarm & Push Notifications selected. If you need more of a walk through let me know. BTW there is a Schedule option that can be setup with Modes as well.

These pages should help a bit.

How do I set up notifications or alerts?

How do I create a mode for my Arlo Pro Wire-Free camera?

Re: What's The Best Mode for a Retail Boutique ?

RivieraTowel — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 13:51:56 GMT

Yes, we have used the Custom Modes, one for day with No Notifications and one for night with Notifications, the only issue is that we don't have a way to switch between these modes automatically. There should be a way to schedule these two modes to automatically switch on and off, but instead we're forced to manually choose one of these modes, which is less than idea.

Please advise if there's a way to automatically switch between the two custom modes.

Thank you.

Albert

Re: What's The Best Mode for a Retail Boutique ?

jguerdat — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 19:40:18 GMT

When you're looking at your modes, note that there's a schedule selection. Edit the schedule and set up times per day for each mode to run, such as 12:00AM-8:00AM for the nighttime mode, 8:01AM-7:00PM for the daytime mode and 7:01PM-11:59PM for the nighttime mode again (you can't span days so 2 nighttime periods are required). When satisfied, select the schedule to be used instead of your custom modes.

Re: What's The Best Mode for a Retail Boutique ?

RivieraTowel — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 20:30:18 GMT

Once we created 2 custom modes, ( one for day without notifications and one for night with notifications ), we were then able to use the SCHEDULER to create schedules for each custom mode.

It's definately a little more complicated that just haveing an option to recive notifications or not, which you would think Arlo would have figured out. Because in a retail environment you don't want notificaitons all day, so why not just have a switch to turn them off instead of all this programming, it's just bananas !

Re: What's The Best Mode for a Retail Boutique ?

slompochomp — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 08:34:51 GMT

sometimes you just have to think outside the box and macgyver it.

Re: What's The Best Mode for a Retail Boutique ?

RivieraTowel — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 13:53:33 GMT

Other times you have to return the Arlo Cams and go buy a Nest, because this scheduling business is nuts. Can you ask your engineers why they don't just have a button to TURN OFF notifications ?

How hard could that be?

Re: What's The Best Mode for a Retail Boutique ?

slompochomp — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 16:39:11 GMT

Everything has there Pros and Cons. I am sure it is hard to make something for every scenario.

Re: What's The Best Mode for a Retail Boutique ?

jguerdat — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 22:48:22 GMT

@RivieraTowel wrote:

Other times you have to return the Arlo Cams and go buy a Nest, because this scheduling business is nuts. Can you ask your engineers why they don't just have a button to TURN OFF notifications ?

How hard could that be?

Since you've created modes and appropriate rules and then put them in the schedule, I fail to understand why you think this is nuts. There IS a button - it's in your rules.