topic Re: Arlo 2, no recordings in library in Arlo Pro 2

Pro 2 no recordings in library

Shizwiz — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 21:57:05 GMT

Just got a 4 camera Arlo 2 Pro setup last night and for the first ~3 hours it was great, recordings would appear in my library whenever a motion alert fired. Then they just stopped appear, nothing I did would bring them back but I kept getting motion alerts. I restarted the device, logged out of the app, re-installed the app nothing.

I was getting ready to box it up and return it and tried one more setting: I changed the recording duration from ""Record until activity stops" to "Record for a fixed length" and now it works again. It seems that no recordings were made because "until activity stops" never recorded long enough of a "duration". Is this a problem because of recording lag, ie I motion/activity happens for 6 seconds but there is 6 seconds of lag before a recording starts so by the time it decides to record something there is nothing to record?

Note: I'm using the iOS App (not a browser)

Re: Arlo 2, no recordings in library

dl_foster — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 09:38:05 GMT

I started having the 'no recording' issue a couple of days ago. One of my outside cameras was picking up motion too often, so I set up activity zones. Once that was done, there were no recordings happening. I deleted the activity zones, and now I am getting recording again.

Re: Arlo 2, no recordings in library

ShayneS — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 21:56:01 GMT

Hi @Shizwiz

Have you tried to adjust your sensitivity or positioning for the cameras? I have provided an article her with more detailed information. How do I position my Arlo wire-free camera?

Re: Arlo 2, no recordings in library

Shizwiz — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 22:27:24 GMT

Thanks for the suggestions! I don’t have any activity zones setup on my cameras as they’re not connected to power so they can’t use them. As far a sensitivity goes I get alerts on my phone that “motion is detected” so it does detect motion it’s just no recordings are shown in my library (unless I specify a manual recording duration).

Re: Arlo 2, no recordings in library

ShayneS — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 16:31:12 GMT

Have you tried to remove the cameras from the Settings > My devices > Re-add them?

Re: Arlo 2, no recordings in library

Seam — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 19:48:43 GMT

I have two Arlo Pro 2 cameras and 3 older model cameras. The recordings are not showing up in the library on my phone with the two Arlo Pro 2 cameras. I have deleted activity zones, reset the base station, removed and re-loaded the app and re-synced the cameras. I am returning the two cameras.

Re: Arlo 2, no recordings in library

jguerdat — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 13:12:55 GMT

Do the cameras have rules in your modes? After deleting and resyncing them, custom modes need to have rules re-entered. The Armed mode gets them automatically - have you tried using that mode?