topic Re: Mode per camera in Arlo

Mode per camera

lseufer — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 09:32:18 GMT

Here is my issue. I have 2 Arlo Pro 2 and one base station.

I have one camera monitoring my frontyard and one monitoring my backyard. Logically I would like that when the system is armed, each camera notify me of any motion detected and record said motion. However it seems that I can only have one camera acting as a trigger for the whole mode.

The only option I found is the one for cross triggering which in my case is useless as I don't want my backyard camera to record because there was a motion detected in the frontyard and vice versa.

Is there any way to accomplish that?

Thanks.

Re: Mode per camera

brh — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 00:31:50 GMT

@lseufer

Check your Rules. They should be:

If Camera A detects motion then Camera A should trigger.

If Camera B detects motion then Camera B should trigger.

Brian

Re: Mode per camera

lseufer — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 08:10:36 GMT

Thanks Brian but that would be what I want to accomplish but I can only have one triggering device per mode, every rule within a mode will be based on the same device.

If you know how to bypass that limitation it would be really appreciated.

Thanks,

Luc

Re: Mode per camera

jguerdat — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 12:11:10 GMT

If I understand correctly, you need to re-edit the mode to add additional rules to the mode. When you first create a mode, only one rule is set up so save and re-edit.

Re: Mode per camera

lseufer — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 12:28:41 GMT

Thanks @jguerdat but the only additional rules I can add are all based on the same triggering camera, I can't select the other one.

What I want to achieve is quite simple: if Camera frontyard detect motion then reccord video on camera frontyard and send me a notification + if Camera backyard detect motion then reccord video on camera backyard and send me a notification.

I don't need/want the camera to interact between each other they are in the same house but not at the same place there is no reason for any interaction.

Thanks.

Re: Mode per camera

brh — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 08:29:45 GMT

@lseufer

When you initially add the cameras to your system, the following rules are created by the app:

If Camera A detects motion then Camera A should trigger.

If Camera B detects motion then Camera B should trigger.

Someone must have edited the Rules. On the Edit page, you will notice a Dropdown box indicated by a down arrow that allows you to choose the camera to record when motion is detected by a camera. Possibly you selected the dropdown box by mistake and chose the wrong camera.

Brian