https://community.arlo.com/t5/Arlo/monitor-my-cameras-with-my-laptop-with-arlo-basic/m-p/1238841#M30323 <P>Which LED light? &nbsp;The IR illuminators for night vision? &nbsp;That has no effect on audio but may be an issue for video at night - it just depends on how much light is available in the area covered by the camera.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Push notifications are those that pop up in your mobile device, like new mail.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>You can manually download your videos from the cloud after the fact. The Pro base station and Q Plus camera also have local recording capability but you have to physically remove the storage to then view on a computer. &nbsp;You can't access it directly.</P> Wed, 01 Mar 2017 13:47:00 GMT jguerdat 2017-03-01T13:47:00Z https://community.arlo.com/t5/Arlo/monitor-my-cameras-with-my-laptop-with-arlo-basic/m-p/1238655#M30313 <P>how can i stop receiving emais about arlo alerts? and how can i use my dell laptop to monitor my cameras?</P> Wed, 01 Mar 2017 05:21:21 GMT https://community.arlo.com/t5/Arlo/monitor-my-cameras-with-my-laptop-with-arlo-basic/m-p/1238655#M30313 givensmaclin 2017-03-01T05:21:21Z https://community.arlo.com/t5/Arlo/monitor-my-cameras-with-my-laptop-with-arlo-basic/m-p/1238768#M30319 <P>you can turn email alerts by going into the mode that you are using/edit/ and in push notification unckeck email alert.</P><P>on pc log into your account at arlo.netgear,com to monitor your cams.&nbsp; but keep in mind that constant monitoring of the arlo will eat up your batteries quickly.&nbsp; With this in mind, a monitoring session times out after 30 min.</P> Wed, 01 Mar 2017 11:59:43 GMT https://community.arlo.com/t5/Arlo/monitor-my-cameras-with-my-laptop-with-arlo-basic/m-p/1238768#M30319 manfredz 2017-03-01T11:59:43Z https://community.arlo.com/t5/Arlo/monitor-my-cameras-with-my-laptop-with-arlo-basic/m-p/1238835#M30322 <P>Thanks for your response Manfredz Also if i turn off my L.E.D light will that affect the audio and/or the video function? Also since i have now turned off my email alerts i have no idea what push notification is. and can i save video to an external hard drive instead of the cloud??</P> Wed, 01 Mar 2017 13:35:59 GMT https://community.arlo.com/t5/Arlo/monitor-my-cameras-with-my-laptop-with-arlo-basic/m-p/1238835#M30322 givensmaclin 2017-03-01T13:35:59Z https://community.arlo.com/t5/Arlo/monitor-my-cameras-with-my-laptop-with-arlo-basic/m-p/1238841#M30323 <P>Which LED light? &nbsp;The IR illuminators for night vision? &nbsp;That has no effect on audio but may be an issue for video at night - it just depends on how much light is available in the area covered by the camera.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Push notifications are those that pop up in your mobile device, like new mail.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>You can manually download your videos from the cloud after the fact. The Pro base station and Q Plus camera also have local recording capability but you have to physically remove the storage to then view on a computer. &nbsp;You can't access it directly.</P> Wed, 01 Mar 2017 13:47:00 GMT https://community.arlo.com/t5/Arlo/monitor-my-cameras-with-my-laptop-with-arlo-basic/m-p/1238841#M30323 jguerdat 2017-03-01T13:47:00Z