topic Re: Arlo Pro 5 - How to use a different Activity Zone in Arm Away or Arm Home or Standby? in Arlo Pro 5S 2K

Arlo Pro 5 - How to use a different Activity Zone in Arm Away or Arm Home or Standby?

rbsteffen — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 21:41:49 GMT

I have a new Arlo Pro 5S 2K. How do we apply a different Activity Zone to Arm Away vs. Arm Home vs. Standby? Where is the menu that shows which are applied in which mode?

Also, after creating an Activity Zone, there is no Save or Done button— so, how do I know it will be applied, and to which mode?

(I've wasted 3 hours of my life on the phone with Arlo tech support who know nothing and spend the time reading up.)

Re: Arlo Pro 5 - How to use a different Activity Zone in Arm Away or Arm Home or Standby?

StephenB — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 00:12:53 GMT

@rbsteffen wrote:

I have a new Arlo Pro 5S 2K. How do we apply a different Activity Zone to Arm Away vs. Arm Home vs. Standby?

A good idea, but unfortunately Arlo doesn't have this.

Re: Arlo Pro 5 - How to use a different Activity Zone in Arm Away or Arm Home or Standby?

rbsteffen — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 00:37:13 GMT

I must be missing something here. If there is no differentiation in security, what is the point of having the 3 different modes of Arm Away, Arm Home, & Standby if you can't have each one activate different areas/zones of security? It just doesn't make sense. I read that you can create up to three or five Activity Zones per camera.

Re: Arlo Pro 5 - How to use a different Activity Zone in Arm Away or Arm Home or Standby?

StephenB — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 11:09:51 GMT

@rbsteffen wrote:

I must be missing something here. If there is no differentiation in security, what is the point of having the 3 different modes of Arm Away, Arm Home, & Standby if you can't have each one activate different areas/zones of security?

There are differentiations in security, but not for activity zones specifically.

Within each mode you can

arm/disarm individual cameras altogether
enable/disable motion detection or audio detection cameras
set different motion and audio detection thresholds for individual cameras
enable/disable all notifications for individual cameras
enable/disable recording for individual cameras
set up cross triggering (telling camera A to also record when camera B triggers).

All the above can be set up differently for each mode.

You can set

smart notifications
spotlight/nightvision settings
activity zones

for each camera, but these settings apply to all modes (and cannot be set differently for different modes).

FWIW, I think it is a bit inconsistent, and see value in letting people set smart notifications, nightvision/spotlight settings, and activity zones per mode.