topic Bear AI detection in Arlo Smart

Bear AI detection

BigBrother — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:28:08 GMT

Recently a bear broke into my house and wrecked my kitchen. I installed more Arlo cameras around the house but need this system to be smart enough to detect a bear and send a critical notification to my phone to make it get my immediate attention.
it seems the system is almost there to be able to do this task. The AI needs to detect bears specifically and a notification protocol to make my phone scream at me that there is a bear at my window. Right now I get notified 12 hours later that there’s an animal at my door. This is not helpful.

Re: Bear AI detection

Edinburgh_lad1 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:48:26 GMT

There are no bears in the UK but lots of animals.

Re: Bear AI detection

BrookeN — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:06:23 GMT

Thank you for reaching out regarding Bear Ai detection. I have passed this feature request onto our development team to review further.

Re: Bear AI detection

StephenB — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:07:52 GMT

@BigBrother wrote:

Recently a bear broke into my house and wrecked my kitchen. I installed more Arlo cameras around the house but need this system to be smart enough to detect a bear and send a critical notification to my phone to make it get my immediate attention.

The home security system might be a better option here - you can put sensors on the doors and windows, and have the system alert you when those sensors detect motion or open/closing. And there is a "call a friend" feature that you can set up to call you when one of these sensor triggers. This requires a subscription plan.

This can be integrated with your cameras (you can tell the cameras to record when one of the security sensors trigger).

This wouldn't be specific to bears, but obviously people could also break in.

Re: Bear AI detection

BigBrother — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:55:48 GMT

That’s great, thank you. I do have a bunch of bear videos that I made at this house with Arlo cameras if you need extra training data.

Re: Bear AI detection

BigBrother — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:00:02 GMT

https://youtu.be/RQJoSMiv8xk?feature=shared

Re: Bear AI detection

BrookeN — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 14:38:52 GMT

That is one impressive bear. It always amazes me how they figure out how to get into everything. Thank you for sharing this with us.