topic Arlo Pro 2 filter out movement further out in my front yard like road traffic in Arlo Pro 2

Arlo Pro 2 filter out movement further out in my front yard like road traffic

pbdaile — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 17:38:06 GMT

I’m new to Arlo. I have the pro 2 system. I have one camera mounted outside and it picks up a bunch of irrelevant motion. I understood that I could filter out movement further out in my front yard like road traffic. Can’t gind my way to that functionality.

Re: Arlo Pro 2

AncientGeek — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 04:07:43 GMT

If the camera is running on battery, your options are confined to camera location, the direction in which the camera points and the motion sensitivity setting. Avoid high traffic areas, tree branches, anything that normally moves. The cameras don’t do well with direct oncoming motion, but do better with side to side motion. I believe the smart notifications allow you to choose which types of objects (vehicles, animals, people) you want to receive....though I have a Smart Elite subscription and have not been able to activate any of my cameras for this. Perhaps it requires a Pro 2 on wall power.

If you can power the Pro 2 with a power cable, you can set up motion zones and exclude problem areas with more precision.

Re: Arlo Pro 2

pbdaile — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 05:06:21 GMT

Thanks for the reply. I should have mentioned that I am connected to power and I was able to designate motion zones but I’m unsble to find a way to exclude those zones from motion detection.

Re: Arlo Pro 2

Streak2 — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 05:55:30 GMT

Zones indicate which areas are to be included. The rest will be excluded.

These zones are not always 100% accurate so try and make the zone small where you want motion to trigger to the camera. If it's too small then keep on increasing it until you are happy with the results.

Re: Arlo Pro 2

pbdaile — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 15:29:33 GMT

Thank you. I’ll swith them. The current zones are for exclusion.
BTW, do you know how to delete a zone? I’m only able to create them.

Re: Arlo Pro 2

Streak2 — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 19:07:40 GMT

Click on the current zone name under video settings for that camera and it should give you an option to delete it.

Re: Arlo Pro 2

pbdaile — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 19:17:03 GMT

Thx. Actually, I was able to swipe left and it gave me a delete option.