topic Re: Offline alert in Arlo

Offline alert

Physiohi123 — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 10:15:13 GMT

Is it possible to get an alert when the cameras are offline?

Re: Offline alert

manfredz — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 10:52:51 GMT

no because the motion detector is only working when the cam is on

Re: Offline alert

Physiohi123 — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 13:03:07 GMT

I mean a system alert that you have lost connection

Re: Offline alert

Physiohi123 — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 13:04:31 GMT

I wud like to know my system is offline as soon as it happens.
Today someone was at my front door but i didnt get an alert because the camera was offline

Re: Offline alert

manfredz — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 15:43:42 GMT

The problem with sending an alert if the cam goes offline is you would be using battery power with the constant handshaking necessary between the cam and base station to determine if it has lost contact. Since this would go on 24/7 over time that battery power used wouls add up

Re: Offline alert

ramsgoms — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 19:32:29 GMT

Well, the base station always knows if the camera is connected or not. Why not add alerting capability to base station as well?