topic Re: Geofencing using WIFI Network in Arlo

Geofencing using WIFI Network

noscamiam — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 04:41:20 GMT

Location-based geofencing is buggy - sometimes decides I am away while sitting in my living room. Why not just arm or disarm when your device disconnects or connects to the Wi-Fi network your cameras are on?

Re: Geofencing using WIFI Network

JamesC — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 16:04:30 GMT

Many users have had success resolving this issue by checking their mobile devices battery saving settings. Some devices have battery optimization settings that close or put apps to sleep after they have been idle for a period of time. Check your mobile devices settings and be sure that an exception is made for Arlo if you are running battery saving settings.

JamesC

Re: Geofencing using WIFI Network

noscamiam — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 18:49:46 GMT

I did disable the battery optimization setting and that did fix the "no internet connection" issue but I still get seemingly random disarming or arming of cameras when I am no where near the boundary of the geofence. Bottomline it isn't reliable. That is why I suggested tying arming/disarming to when your device is connected to the same WI-FI network. You either are or aren't on the same network so perhaps it would be more reliable than depending on GPS.

Re: Geofencing using WIFI Network

maartenklein — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 12:08:27 GMT

totally support the request for a more reliable WIFI geofencing. The GPS geofencing mode has too many hickups (besides the fact that in my well isolated house there is hardly any GPS reception possible). Clouds or whatever influences the functioning of my camera system. My phone is also never on any saving batt option.