topic Re: Geofencing routine that sends notification only in Arlo Secure

Geofencing routine that sends notification only

alex_loo — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 04:56:40 GMT

Context: "Feed" version of ARLO app. Geofencing routine WITHOUT any change of mode.

Question:

For geofencing routine, if I have the following:

It does NOT send out any notification even when the select "specific people" leaves the zone.

Is this normal?

Alex

Re: Geofencing routine that sends notification only

ShayneS — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 22:18:09 GMT

Hi @alex_loo

Can you try creating a change mode rule to trigger a notification?

Re: Geofencing routine that sends notification only

alex_loo — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 23:14:27 GMT

@ShayneS wrote:
Hi @alex_loo

Can you try creating a change mode rule to trigger a notification?

if it is a change mode rule, yes it triggers a notification.

But this is NOT what I am asking. I want to know if a rule without mode change can still trigger notification. Since it is possible from UI perspecitve.

Alex

Re: Geofencing routine that sends notification only

ShayneS — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 21:42:39 GMT

This is not possible at the moment without a change mode rule. I let the team know, and if any enhancements are made I will let you know.

Re: Geofencing routine that sends notification only

alex_loo — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 12:23:15 GMT

@ShayneS wrote:
This is not possible at the moment without a change mode rule. I let the team know, and if any enhancements are made I will let you know.

thanks. it would be a good-to-have. Since then I can use this feature to know when ARLO considers a particular device leaving/entering a geofencing zone. Very useful for geofencing TROUBLESHOOTING.

Alex

Re: Geofencing routine that sends notification only

StephenB — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 13:02:33 GMT

@alex_loo wrote:

@ShayneS wrote:

This is not possible at the moment without a change mode rule. I let the team know, and if any enhancements are made I will let you know.

thanks. it would be a good-to-have. Since then I can use this feature to know when ARLO considers a particular device leaving/entering a geofencing zone. Very useful for geofencing TROUBLESHOOTING.

I agree it would be useful for troubleshooting.

Also, it should not be possible to put actions in the action list that are ignored when it triggers. Users shouldn't have to figure out what combinations of actions actually work.