topic Re: Arm Home/Arm Away in Arlo

Arm Home/Arm Away

himmerj — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 16:45:31 GMT

I'm wondering if someone can help me out with the following. I have two outdoor Pro cameras at our Home and two outdoor Pro cameras at our Cabin. When we're at Home (Arm Home?) I would like the two Home cameras to be on in the evening (9:00 pm - 6:00 am) and off otherwise and our cabin cameras to be on 24/7. Conversely when we're at the cabin (Arm Away?) I would like the cabin cameras to be on in the evening (9:00pm - 6:00am) and off otherwise and the home cameras to be on 24/7. Is there a way to do this with Arm Home/Arm Away or is there a better way? Thanks in advance.

Re: Arm Home/Arm Away

jguerdat — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 14:29:03 GMT

You can set schedules in Routines (click on the + sign at the top right and choose Schedule) to automate changing modes. I don't have multiple locations but I would think you would need to do this for each location separately. Note that you need one schedule to start Arm Home and another to start Arm Away. In each mode, only create rules for the cameras needed - any camera without a rule will be disarmed.

However, that will just always switch according to the times you set in each schedule. It appears you also want the systems to know where you are so you also need to set up geofencing (Arrive/Leave) by choosing that from the + menu. For Arrive, choose to switch modes to the Arm Home mode - for Leave, change modes to Arm Away. You also need to have any phones participating in this to have the phones' location services enabled all the time, using precise location. Make sure each phone also uses the app within 2 weeks or that phone's app will be logged out, disabling the ability to determine location.

This may help:

https://kb.arlo.com/000062777/About-Arlo-Routines-Modes-Rules-and-Automations

Re: Arm Home/Arm Away

StephenB — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 12:09:14 GMT

@himmerj wrote:

I'm wondering if someone can help me out with the following. I have two outdoor Pro cameras at our Home and two outdoor Pro cameras at our Cabin.

To get this to work as you want, you will need to set up two locations (perhaps calling the new one "Cabin"), and put the cabin base+cameras in that location.

Then geofencing can be used to trigger when you arrive/leave the cabin, and also trigger when you arrive/leave your home. Each location will have all three modes (independently), and independent schedules.