topic Re: have 5 cameras but want notifications from only 1 camera in Arlo Pro 2

have 5 cameras but want notifications from only 1 camera

litbro — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 19:47:59 GMT

I have the kit of 5 cameras, and it's really great. I have 1 camera that is most likely to tell us if there is an intruder and don't need 5 sets of notifications blowing up four iPhones all day long (crying wolf). A family of 4 walks around ya know 😉 5 caneras send so many notifications that everyone in the family has turned notifications off, completely nullifying the notifications system.

What we need is to have notifications active on one camera (maybe 2?) and then we can decide to look at the others, based on what we see on the "notifying" camera.

I can't think of how to search this, can anyone help me?

Re: have 5 cameras but want notifications from only 1 camera

litbro — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 21:34:02 GMT

OK I found it.

From the browser (for example) go to "mode". You will see your 5 cameras listed.

You have to go to each camera separately and "edit" to un-click the notifications box . Leave the one camera you want with "push notifications" checked.

There's no top-view, you have to go down each wormhole to see where it goes. Kinda clunky, and excessive whitespace / scrolling, but it works. Maybe later versions will provide an editable summary presentation of all camera settings. No summary view makes me leery of buying more Arlo cameras.

Re: have 5 cameras but want notifications from only 1 camera

AncientGeek — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 13:04:12 GMT

@litbro wrote:

OK I found it.

From the browser (for example) go to "mode". You will see your 5 cameras listed.

You have to go to each camera separately and "edit" to un-click the notifications box . Leave the one camera you want with "push notifications" checked.

There's no top-view, you have to go down each wormhole to see where it goes. Kinda clunky, and excessive whitespace / scrolling, but it works. Maybe later versions will provide an editable summary presentation of all camera settings. No summary view makes me leery of buying more Arlo cameras.

There is a summary view of status for multiple cameras on an iPad, but not for rules. Generally speaking, once you set the rules up the way you want them, you don’t have to visit them unless some firmware update screws them up....fairly rare, but it has happened. A larger issue was when all of the status icons were taken away in V2.6.0 of the app. Fortunately, Arlo listened to the roar of user disapproval and put them back.