topic Re: Motion on one camera triggering recording to another camera in Arlo

Motion on one camera triggering recording to another camera

MikeyLV — Tue, 27 Sep 2016 16:40:36 GMT

I thought that I had these rules set up so that when any one of my three cameras catches motion, it will trigger the other cameras to record as well. The reason is due to the delay between motion and recording, so it lets me start recording once the first camera senses motion (personally, Doppler would work so much better than IR for sensing motion).

But, as you can see, my cameras are not recording the way they should (basically, they should each have the saem number of clips).

I have attached screen grabs of the camera page as well as two rules pages, if anyone can help.

Thanks in advance.

Re: Motion on one camera triggering recording to another camera

TomMac — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 20:46:32 GMT

Make sure the cameras are ordered correctly in the rules... I found it seems to make a diff.

cam 1 - record 1

cam 1 - record 2

cam 1 - record 3

cam 2 - record 2

etc

Re: Motion on one camera triggering recording to another camera

MikeyLV — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 20:48:28 GMT

Makes sense. I'll give it a try. I assume I use the order listed in Camera Settings.

Re: Motion on one camera triggering recording to another camera

MikeyLV — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 21:03:59 GMT

That didn't work, as the system changed my order. In red is the order I entered the rules in.

Re: Motion on one camera triggering recording to another camera

TomMac — Sat, 24 Oct 2015 12:25:49 GMT

looks alphabetize.. my are same name / numbered. ( IR cam 1 -1/1, IR cam 1-1/2, IR cam 2- 2/2, etc )

As long as primary camera is first , 1 records on 1...

The important part , does it work tho?

Re: Motion on one camera triggering recording to another camera

MikeyLV — Sat, 24 Oct 2015 15:07:03 GMT

We'll see. The numbers, with and without a hyphen didn't matter. I had to fake the naming of #5 by putting a z before "Door".

We'll see if that works, but I can say that last night, only my door recorded (with the old order). That's another problem as it has the most limited view of the driveway, but the other cameras that capture the driveway didn't even trigger with all at 100% sensitivity...and they used to (see pics).

Re: Motion on one camera triggering recording to another camera

MikeyLV — Sun, 25 Oct 2015 14:39:20 GMT

Sometimes, it's the simplest of answers. The motion on one camera triggering another to record was not turned on in Modes --> All motion on. Now it all works as programmed.

Note that after adding a rule, you MUST make sure it is turned on in the mode you are using. Thanks, everyone, for all your help.

Re: Motion on one camera triggering recording to another camera

TomMac — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 02:13:34 GMT

good to hear it was a simple solution

Re: Motion on one camera triggering recording to another camera

shack01 — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 02:24:37 GMT

Another case where an on-line tutorial or instruction manual would have helped.

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Re: Motion on one camera triggering recording to another camera

jguerdat — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 13:08:20 GMT

You do know that the manual is available here, right?

http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/arlo/arlo_um_en.pdf

Re: Motion on one camera triggering recording to another camera

shack01 — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 23:39:00 GMT

Ah Ha ! I didn't, but thanks for the link !

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