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Easy to follow tutorial to create basic Arlo automation rules for Geofencing and Scheduling.

geu7438 — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 01:54:20 GMT

Easy to follow tutorial to create basic Arlo automation rules for Geofencing and Scheduling:

Tutorial video

Re: Easy to follow tutorial to create basic Arlo automation rules for Geofencing and Scheduling.

StephenB — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 12:12:53 GMT

@geu7438 wrote:

Easy to follow tutorial to create basic Arlo automation rules for Geofencing and Scheduling:

The video has all the automations always enabled, which will not work correctly.

Re: Easy to follow tutorial to create basic Arlo automation rules for Geofencing and Scheduling.

geu7438 — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:01:39 GMT

I configured the sunrise and sunset rules as explained in the video, both of these rules have automations always enabled and both rules work perfectly fine.

Re: Easy to follow tutorial to create basic Arlo automation rules for Geofencing and Scheduling.

geu7438 — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:09:26 GMT

Also, when looking at Arlo's official instruction tutorial video, they leave the "Always Enabled" setting at the default. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DT9H2HKmaA

Re: Easy to follow tutorial to create basic Arlo automation rules for Geofencing and Scheduling.

StephenB — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:31:31 GMT

@geu7438 wrote:

I configured the sunrise and sunset rules as explained in the video, both of these rules have automations always enabled and both rules work perfectly fine.

But the combination of geofencing and scheduling won't work. Generally you want the system to stay in "Arm Away" mode when on one is home. That requires that schedule automations that switch be disabled in "Arm Away". Otherwise the modes will continue to change per the schedule.

My normal advice here is to

reserve use of Arm Away for when you are away from home.
restrict your schedule to switching between Arm Home and Standby (modifying both if necessary)
set your schedule automations to be enabled in Arm Home, Standby - but NOT Arm Away
Set geofencing leave (if you use it) to be always enabled
set geofencing arrive (if you use it) to be only enabled in Arm Away

There are some cases where it makes sense to go with a different approach. But you need to understand how the enable list works if you want to set up something different.

@geu7438 wrote:

Also, when looking at Arlo's official instruction tutorial video, they leave the "Always Enabled" setting at the default.

If Arlo had a better video, then fewer people would have problems getting the automations to work. But in fairness to the folks making the videos, the automations are just too hard.