topic Re: Geofencing in Arlo

Geofencing

Craig_Ultra2 — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 17:00:05 GMT

I just recently set up “Geofencing”, and used two iPhones. Everything works fantastic. However, if I go into the mode option and select “disarm all devices”, and then select “arm all devices”, the mode defaults to “armed”. I want it to default to “Geofencing”. Because now my “Geofencing” no longer works unless I manually set it in the mode settings. I would like to see a default parameter in settings that would allow me to set the default to “Geofencing”. The default that they put in there could be “armed”, but I would like to change that to “Geofencing”.

I feel this is a real concern. By setting up “Geofencing”, I would believe that I want it to always work, unless I go into the mode settings and manually change it. I sometimes want to disarm all devices, but when I arm them again, I want geofencing activated. I don’t want to remember that I have to reset geofencing.

I don’t know how to request this as a possible change to the Arlo app.

Re: Geofencing

DannyBearAgain — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 22:35:36 GMT

Normally you would set the mode to geofencing and leave it that way.

You can set geofencing away to use the armed mode, geofencing home to disarmed mode or a custom mode for when your home. I use schedule set with multiple custom modes.

The lack of global control of geofencing and schedule is a pain agree although once you have it configured you rarely need to change it.

Re: Geofencing

Craig_Ultra2 — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 15:56:12 GMT

Thanks for your reply.

I am processing "Geofencing" by using "Away" and a custom setting. It works fine. However, during the summer we are outside a lot and I have 3 outside cameras that are constantly notifying me of activity. So, I turn them off. I know that we will sometime, just turn them back on and it will not be set to "Geofencing". That troubles me, because I want the geofencing to always be the default when anyone turns all the devices back on. My wife does not like technology, and I know she will just turn the cameras "off" and then "on". I was hoping for some safe way of preventing that from happening. That is why I would like to be able to set a default when you turn cameras back on. I love the Arlo cameras and would highly recommend them. However, they lack a lot of sophistication.

I hope they are going to support the "Matter" smart devices. Then, I can control them with other software products.

Re: Geofencing

StephenB — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 16:08:31 GMT

@Craig_Ultra2 wrote:

I am processing "Geofencing" by using "Away" and a custom setting. It works fine. However, during the summer we are outside a lot and I have 3 outside cameras that are constantly notifying me of activity. So, I turn them off.

One option is to disable notifications instead. You'd still get recordings, but no nuisance notifications.

Notifications would be automatically re-enabled, so you wouldn't need to worry about forgetting. And even if you did, you'd still be able to review recordings.