topic Re: Anyone know of a way to download videos from the library automatically on a daily basis? in Arlo

Anyone know of a way to download videos from the library automatically on a daily basis?

rgtucker — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 15:07:03 GMT

Anyone know of a way to download videos from the library automatically on a daily basis?

Re: Anyone know of a way to download videos from the library automatically on a daily basis?

Dannybear — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 01:10:47 GMT

If you have a VMB4/5xxx Base station attached to the cameras with the backup storage device attached and implemented, you can extract the triggered recordings that way using a pc. Manual recording is to cloud library only so you would to download these yourself.

Some customers here do use scripting code but I recall that it has become very slow at downloading.

Re: Anyone know of a way to download videos from the library automatically on a daily basis?

jguerdat — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 21:18:53 GMT

Nah, I was distributing a Python script to automatically download videos daily but 2FA broke it. The speed was the same as with the app/web client so it worked fine - while it could log in.

Re: Anyone know of a way to download videos from the library automatically on a daily basis?

rgtucker — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 23:05:25 GMT

Well that sucks. I'll try the USB port with a 2TB drive and see how that works out.

Thanks for the replies.

Re: Anyone know of a way to download videos from the library automatically on a daily basis?

jguerdat — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 14:04:13 GMT

Personally, I'd use a thumb drive. A 32-64GB drive is much easier to work with compared to any hard drive, will hold a lot of videos (I download mine monthly and reformat the drive) and is much cheaper and less problematic (some folks have had issues using a hard drive for unknown reasons which may relate to power draw from the USB port).