topic Light on Only (No Recording) in Arlo Pro 3 Floodlight

Light on Only (No Recording)

GCBuilding — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 13:11:36 GMT

Hi Guys,
In addition to utilizing my Arlo Pro 3 Floodlight in an Armed mode for security purposes, I am wanting to create a mode whereby the device will simply operate as a ‘dumb floodlight’ at night time to simply turn on when it senses movement in the driveway. I can not seem to create this simple rule without the need to also select ‘record video’ as an action and/or ‘Push Notification’ as an alert. If I do not select either one of these options, the ‘Save’ button becomes greyed out and hence I can not complete the rule. I see that where a device has ‘Arlo Smart’ activated then ‘Record Video’ must be selected. Even when then device is removed as an active Arlo Smart device, this problems still exists.

Am I missing something? Surely the device can act as a ‘Dumb Floodlight’ without the need to simultaneously record video and or issue a push notification unnecessarily...

Re: Light on Only (No Recording)

StephenB — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 13:48:16 GMT

@GCBuilding wrote:

Am I missing something? Surely the device can act as a ‘Dumb Floodlight’ without the need to simultaneously record video and or issue a push notification unnecessarily...

No, you're not. It's a good suggestion though - so I suggest you put it into the idea exchange.

Personally I just record the video.

Re: Light on Only (No Recording)

michaelkenward — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 09:10:48 GMT

@GCBuilding wrote:

In addition to utilizing my Arlo Pro 3 Floodlight in an Armed mode for security purposes, I am wanting to create a mode whereby the device will simply operate as a ‘dumb floodlight’ at night time to simply turn on when it senses movement in the driveway. I can not seem to create this simple rule without the need to also select ‘record video’ as an action and/or ‘Push Notification’ as an alert.

Are you sure? It seems to work here, although I do have other things triggered to happen. (Turn on some standalone Arlo lights.)

Floodlight trigger

The Save button is not disabled. This is on a VMB4540 hub/base station .