topic Re: Ultra 2 - Spotlight - Enable in certain mode, enabel only in certain activity zone in Arlo Ultra 2

Ultra 2 - Spotlight request to Enable in certain mode, enable only in certain activity zone

hugggg — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 23:35:45 GMT

Two questions on the spotlight function on the Ultra 2:

1. Is it possible to only enable the spotlight function in a specific mode? i.e. in Mode 1 the spotlight is enabled, but when Mode 2 is chosen the spotlight is disabled (and use normal nightvision)?

2. Is it possible to only enable the spotlight if motion is detected in a specific activity zone, while in another activity zone recording happens without spotlight (with normal nightvision only)?

Thanks in advance!

Re: Ultra 2 - Spotlight - Enable in certain mode, enabel only in certain activity zone

StephenB — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 21:39:07 GMT

@hugggg wrote:

1. Is it possible to only enable the spotlight function in a specific mode? i.e. in Mode 1 the spotlight is enabled, but when Mode 2 is chosen the spotlight is disabled (and use normal nightvision)?

2. Is it possible to only enable the spotlight if motion is detected in a specific activity zone, while in another activity zone recording happens without spotlight (with normal nightvision only)?

Unfortunately you can't do either of these.

Re: Ultra 2 - Spotlight - Enable in certain mode, enabel only in certain activity zone

hugggg — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 07:29:07 GMT

Ok thanks, too bad. Can this please be added as a feature request?

When setting up a custom mode you can currently also adjust the motion sensitivity, so would hope one day you can also toggle the spotlight for certain modes. And the spotlight for activity zones closer to the camera while recording in night vision for the rest of the camera field of vision would be great.

Much appreciated

Re: Ultra 2 - Spotlight - Enable in certain mode, enabel only in certain activity zone

StephenB — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 11:32:15 GMT

@hugggg wrote:
Ok thanks, too bad. Can this please be added as a feature request?

This is a customer forum, and I don't work for Arlo - so that's not something I can do.

I agree that the system would be more flexible if more settings were in the rules. Though it likely would make troubleshooting more complicated.