topic Re: TURNING CAMERAS ON & OFF in Arlo

TURNING CAMERAS ON & OFF

TRomero — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 21:34:07 GMT

Is there a way to easily turn cameras on and off? It would be nice to be able to turn off the cameras when I know I don;t need the security like a house party or just the family louging in the backyard.

Re: TURNING CAMERAS ON & OFF

jguerdat — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 22:18:42 GMT

The easiest way to do this is to use the app, select the Mode tab, choose your system and select the Armed or Disarmed mode. A few clicks but that's the only way to do it.

Re: TURNING CAMERAS ON & OFF

TRomero — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 16:26:08 GMT

Thanks. It would be nice if there were a way to turn off individual carema via slide button. I may want to turn off the camera in the back yard during a party but keep the camera on the drive on to protect guests cars. But it looks like I have to turn off the entire system or none at all.

Re: TURNING CAMERAS ON & OFF

Schorschi — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 18:22:11 GMT

TRomero wrote:
It would be nice if there were a way to turn off individual carema via slide button. I may want to turn off the camera in the back yard during a party but keep the camera on the drive on to protect guests cars. But it looks like I have to turn off the entire system or none at all.

Create a new mode named "Party". In it create rules for your cameras, except omit a rule for your backyard camera.

When you party, simply activate the mode "Party". Voila.

Re: TURNING CAMERAS ON & OFF

TomMac — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 19:07:10 GMT

TRomero wrote:
Thanks. It would be nice if there were a way to turn off individual carema via slide button. I may want to turn off the camera in the back yard during a party but keep the camera on the drive on to protect guests cars. But it looks like I have to turn off the entire system or none at all.

As mentioned, you haven't gotten the concept of MODES yet....

The default MODES are ARMED and DISARMED ( all on / all off )

If you have more than one camera, you can set them with RULES in MODES to be on or off.

Like A cam is in frontyard , B camera inside, C camera in backyard... You can create modes so any single camera is on and/or any two ( you already have all on; ARMED , and all off ; DISARMED shuts off any mode )... CAM A on, CAM B on,CAM A & C on, etc

You go to MODE, click on current mode ( upper left on PC ) and list of MODES appear, At bottom is ADD A MODE.

Click on that and add following prompts

Re: TURNING CAMERAS ON & OFF

manfredz — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 02:45:08 GMT

the easiest way i find is to go into the cam/cams settings of the ones you want to turn off and change the button from on to off. easier than messing with modes