topic Re: Turn off wifi in Arlo Pro 2

Turn off wifi

p78 — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 19:37:32 GMT

Hello

I plan to buy an Arlo Pro (or Pro 2) and its base.

I would like to know if it is possible to turn off the Wifi on the camera and on the base.

I don't want Wifi when I'm at home.

Thanks

Re: Turn off wifi

jguerdat — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 19:40:56 GMT

You can disable the cameras but you can't disable the WiFi connection between the base and cameras. Why do you not want the WiFi connection?

Re: Turn off wifi

p78 — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 19:54:02 GMT

Health matters.

So, if I turn off the base and I disable the camera(s), there won't be any wifi, right?

Re: Turn off wifi

brh — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 20:21:11 GMT

@p78

If you power off the base station via the on/off switch there will be no wifi. When you power it back up it should automatically reconnect although, it might take a couple of minutes to complete the process.

Or you can simply unplug the ethernet cable going to either the base or the router and accomplish the same thing.

Brian

Re: Turn off wifi

steve_t — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 22:48:39 GMT

wrote:

Hello

I plan to buy an Arlo Pro (or Pro 2) and its base.

I would like to know if it is possible to turn off the Wifi on the camera and on the base.

I don't want Wifi when I'm at home.

Thanks

BR

I would suggest you'd be better off with a wired camera system. If you go with Arlo Pro or Pro 2, you would have to turn off the power to the base and also remove the battery from each camera in order to not have the batteries drain and for there to be no wifi signals broadcast.

While it's your personal choice, I'll just make sure everyone else knows there are no proven ill health effects from having a wifi network in your house

Re: Turn off wifi

jguerdat — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 01:44:04 GMT

If it's health reasons from the WiFi, the low frequency effects on your house wiring will have more of an effect than the high frequency from WiFi, which doesn't penetrate nearly as much.

Re: Turn off wifi

p78 — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 19:21:22 GMT

I would suggest you'd be better off with a wired camera system. If you go with Arlo Pro or Pro 2, you would have to turn off the power to the base and also remove the battery from each camera in order to not have the batteries drain and for there to be no wifi signals broadcast.
While it's your personal choice, I'll just make sure everyone else knows there are no proven ill health effects from having a wifi network in your house

Yes but I didn't find good camera with a sound alarm.

If you know one 🙂

Re: Turn off wifi

st_shaw — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 01:27:46 GMT

wrote:

Yes but I didn't find good camera with a sound alarm.

If you know one 🙂

Arlo Q Plus.

Re: Turn off wifi

p78 — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 07:26:05 GMT

Can I plug it to the same base?

Re: Turn off wifi

brh — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 07:28:32 GMT

@p78

The Arlo Q and Q Plus do not need or use a base station.

Brian

Re: Turn off wifi

steve_t — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 09:16:04 GMT

I don't believe the Q or Q Plus have a built in siren nor do they have the capability to trigger the siren in the Pro base since they're not connected

Re: Turn off wifi

steve_t — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 09:16:30 GMT

Check out this thread

https://community.netgear.com/t5/Arlo-Q-Plus/Arlo-Q-Plus-Siren/td-p/1173576

Re: Turn off wifi

st_shaw — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 15:17:24 GMT

@steve_t wrote:

I don't believe the Q or Q Plus have a built in siren nor do they have the capability to trigger the siren in the Pro base since they're not connected

I took the OP's requirement for a "sound alarm" to mean detecting on sounds and raising an alert, not having a siren. I could have misunderstood what the OP was looking for though.