topic Base Station in Arlo

Base Station

Abmay — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 21:08:54 GMT

Have just installed the Arlo wire free and am very impressed so far.

Could some one please tell me what are the 5 Icons on the base station ?

I know some were on when installing but cannot understand the Icons.

Does anything show on the base station which looks like a screen? Hope this doesn't sound to stupid. A 75 + user.

Re: Base Station

Schorschi — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 00:26:15 GMT

Abmay wrote:
Have just installed the Arlo wire free and am very impressed so far.
Could some one please tell me what are the 5 Icons on the base station ?
I know some were on when installing but cannot understand the Icons.
Does anything show on the base station which looks like a screen? Hope this doesn't sound to stupid. A 75 + user.

Leftmost LED is on/off light. Second from the left is showing green when Internet connection to cloud has been established successfully. Third light is green when at least one camera has been synchronized with the base station. Don't know what the other two are for. The last is obviously a USB symbol, but the USB port does not serve any function for the end-user (at least not at this time).

During normal operation you'll see the leftmost three lights solid green. The third light will blink after you've pressed the Sync button on the side of the base station. Any other color or off on those three means something is wrong.

Re: Base Station

Abmay — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 02:05:30 GMT

Thanks. Is is a shame that the purpose of the Base Station is not explained in the setup.

We thought that it may have been some kind of screen because of the way it was packaged with

plastic over the base station face?

Re: Base Station

JamesC — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 19:02:38 GMT

Abmay,

The base station manages the communication between the Arlo cameras and the cloud (where the cameras store recorded content).

Page 15 of the Quick Start Guide also defines the Base Station LED behaviors as described above by Schorschi.

I hope this helps! Please let us know if you experience any addition issues in the future. We would be happy to help!

JamesC

Re: Base Station

Abmay — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 22:15:38 GMT

Thanks James, Think I understand it ok now.

Re: Base Station

Fatima27 — Sat, 20 Aug 2016 18:30:53 GMT

HI I have a problem with the base unit it doesn't want to connect to our Internet router .please help me thank you

Re: Base Station

jguerdat — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 13:28:14 GMT

Need more details. For starters, what are the base station LEDs showing?

Re: Base Station

Fatima27 — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 15:30:25 GMT

Well the three first led lights are all green. But afterwards it doesn't show any connectivity in our Arlo app in our phone or in the computer. It all started about 3 days ago the cámaras started recording by themselves, I didn't get any notifications is all weird. Please help me.

Re: Base Station

jguerdat — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 13:00:21 GMT

Try power cycling the base using the power switch. It may also be useful to open and close all the camera battery doors.