topic Re: Select Motion Type for Recording in Arlo Pro 3 Floodlight

Select Motion Type for Recording

dickey38 — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 17:38:38 GMT

I think at one point during setup I found a menu that let me select what kind of motion (vehicle, animal, any motion, …) I wanted to have trigger recording. Now I can’t find such a menu, although notifications indicate cause of motion (animal, automobile, etc).

Is this menu well hidden, or was I dreaming? Thanks.

Re: Select Motion Type for Recording

jguerdat — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 14:02:46 GMT

That setting is in Settings, Smart Notifications. Select a camera to change the settings. Note that you will have to maintain your subscription to be able to use these after the trial runs out.

Re: Select Motion Type for Recording

dickey38 — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 15:56:16 GMT

Thanks, I've got it.

Now another question -- I found that I had set toggles People, Vehicles, Animals ON and Motion OFF. However most of my clips show motion as the cause. Looks to me like snowing and wind blowing tree branch is triggering recordings. I have motion sensitivity set to 40%.

Thanks again for your help.

Re: Select Motion Type for Recording

JamesC — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 19:37:18 GMT

dickey38,

These settings suppress notifications, recordings of these events will still arrive in the library. For more information, take a look here: How do I enable the Arlo Smart person detection feature?

JamesC

Re: Select Motion Type for Recording

dickey38 — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 19:46:24 GMT

Got it. Thanks,

Re: Select Motion Type for Recording

dcfox1 — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 19:54:02 GMT

@JamesC wrote:

dickey38,

These settings suppress notifications, recordings of these events will still arrive in the library. For more information, take a look here: How do I enable the Arlo Smart person detection feature?

JamesC

Thanks for clearing that up, There has been one person that keeps saying they would be discarded, as I get "Motion" recordings also but not the notification as you described.