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Arlo Pro 2 integration with smartthings and sharptools

vzoran — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 23:26:43 GMT

Ha all, is there any documentation on Arlo Pro integration with smarththings and sharptools integration. I am trying to initiate video/clip recording using tasker and sharptool but can’t make it work. I can use smartthings app and smart home monitor to trigger video recording by the motion of another motion sensor but the delay is unacceptable? There are a couple of methods available like capture, startStream, stopStream but I haven’t managed to initiate video/clip recording on my Arlo Pro 2 camera. Thank you. Zoran

Re: Arlo Pro 2 integration with smartthings and sharptools

brh — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 23:49:58 GMT

@vzoran

I saw your post over in the Smartthings community forum and have been thinking about it. I believe that these programs will not help you as the delay is inherent in the Smartthings/Arlo integration. They must communicate in the cloud with each other before the video starts recording. I am using the method you said about using a Smartthings motion detector placet 10 feet or so away from my outdoor cameras to start the recordings earlier. That works for me.

There are a couple of other solutions. One is to not use Smartthings to trigger the events, but use the Arlo Modes to arm/disarm the cameras. ScottToYa hangs out on both forums, as I do, and is an expert at using that method. Send an reply to him on the Smartthings forum using the @ symbol in front of his name. He is a great guy and loves to help people.

The other method is to use the recently released Smartapp called. "ArloPilot." But be advised that for that to work, you must leave the cameras on all the time as the app has no way to turn the cameras from Active to Inactive before recording.

Hope this helps,

Brian

Re: Arlo Pro 2 integration with smartthings and sharptools

vzoran — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 23:53:58 GMT

Much appreciated Brian. I'll do what you have suggested.

Re: Arlo Pro 2 integration with smartthings and sharptools

vzoran — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 14:46:52 GMT

@brh , sorry to bother, it seems @ScottToYa does not exist in the smartthings forum. Is it misspelled? Thank you

Re: Arlo Pro 2 integration with smartthings and sharptools

brh — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 15:22:05 GMT

@vzoran

Sorry, my bad. it is Scott2Ya

Check him out on the EZVIZ posts.

Brian

Re: Arlo Pro 2 integration with smartthings and sharptools

brh — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 16:34:17 GMT

@vzoran

I sent him a post in the Smartthings Community website and asked him to contact you.

Brian