topic Re: Auto Deletion in Arlo

Auto Deletion

vorsicle — Tue, 27 Sep 2016 16:37:40 GMT

How can I configure Auto Deletion? If the system knows you are at 80% full, someone can surely write code to auto delete the oldest files.

Re: Auto Deletion

TomMac — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 12:37:36 GMT

Go to SETTINGS/ SYSTEM SETTINGS / PREFERENCES

There is a click on/off option to delete old files and manage you storage automaticly

Re: Auto Deletion

vorsicle — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 01:19:25 GMT

Under Settings / System Settings / Preferences you are prompted with three choices. None of which will auto purge your files.

The options are: Low Bat Notification, Storage Full Notification, and Push Notfication.

Storage Full Notification will only advise when you are 80% full. It will not auto delete, which is what i am in search for.

Arlo is great and I am suprised that such simple code has not yet been rolled in to production. Someone coded it to advise at 80%, why not take the extra step to parse.

Re: Auto Deletion

TomMac — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 13:46:06 GMT

vorsicle wrote:
Under Settings / System Settings / Preferences you are prompted with three choices. None of which will auto purge your files.

The options are: Low Bat Notification, Storage Full Notification, and Push Notfication.

Storage Full Notification will only advise when you are 80% full. It will not auto delete, which is what i am in search for.

Try on the PC via browser... here's what shows;

Try the first option... it AUTO deletes files after 7 days, they go in you recycle bin for a min of 7 days more ( if not longer due to slow housing keeping )

Re: Auto Deletion

vorsicle — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 17:47:51 GMT

Those options are not avail to me.

I have used IE, Chrome from a PC and the app via my Smartphone.

Re: Auto Deletion

vorsicle — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 17:52:52 GMT

Which subscription do you subcribe to? Maybe that's the difference. I have the Basic - Plan.

Re: Auto Deletion

TomMac — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 14:01:12 GMT

vorsicle wrote:
Which subscription do you subcribe to? Maybe that's the difference. I have the Basic - Plan.

Ok... that answers it.. I have the Premier plan ( 30 days storage )

On the basic, the storage plan is already set for 7 days so it would be a mute point.

Re: Auto Deletion

vorsicle — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 21:27:23 GMT

I believe the option to auto purge or delete would benefit all plans.

I have to manually delete. It would be nice if it would just delete the oldest day thus preventing me from having to log in to do it.

Re: Auto Deletion

TomMac — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:44:39 GMT

vorsicle wrote:
I believe the option to auto purge or delete would benefit all plans.

I have to manually delete. It would be nice if it would just delete the oldest day thus preventing me from having to log in to do it.

So , if I may ask, you filling the 1GB in 7 days??

I don't think the auto delete really matters in a 7 days storage. I tried once to fill the 1GB running 5 cameras and it's pretty hard to do without killing batteries.

Remember, a ten sec clip is < 1 meg, so your talking about 1000 - 10 second videos.

So I don't think you would have to manually delete as the 7 day time will auto purge as the week goes on without filling your storage.

BTW, recycle bin doesn't count as part of the storage.