topic Am I asking too much?! in Arlo

Am I asking too much?!

Matt_C — Tue, 27 Sep 2016 22:39:21 GMT

Hi all. Newbie with my brand new triple camera set (VMS3330)! Just trying to familiarise myself with the use of these, and it appears, to me anyway, that I can only select/use one mode at a time be it geofencing or scehduling for instance.

If I want to do the following for example, is it possible..?

Camera 1 - record on motion 24/7

Camera 2 - record on motion when I am away from home

Camera 3 - record on motion when I am in but only in particular time window

Thanks in advance!

Re: Am I asking too much?!

jguerdat — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 15:20:04 GMT

Matt_C wrote:

If I want to do the following for example, is it possible..?

Camera 1 - record on motion 24/7

Camera 2 - record on motion when I am away from home

Camera 3 - record on motion when I am in but only in particular time window

As for your question, someone may have a different answer but I don't think you can accomplish the cam1 scenario with the other requirements. You'd need either a second base station or a Q camera to do this since either way would not allow you to tie that camera to the others. The geofencing option should allow you to configure the other two cameras as you wish, enabling GF only on cam2 and set up a mode/rule for cam3 that can be scheduled.

Does that help?

Re: Am I asking too much?!

Matt_C — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 14:53:42 GMT

Thanks for the helpful reply. Shame I can't accomplish it, maybe in the future updates...

Re: Am I asking too much?!

TomMac — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 15:57:38 GMT

Matt_C wrote:
Hi all. Newbie with my brand new triple camera set (VMS3330)! Just trying to familiarise myself with the use of these, and it appears, to me anyway, that I can only select/use one mode at a time be it geofencing or scehduling for instance.
If I want to do the following for example, is it possible..?
Camera 1 - record on motion 24/7
Camera 2 - record on motion when I am away from home
Camera 3 - record on motion when I am in but only in particular time window

Thanks in advance!

That's a hard one... tho there may be an answer for it still... I don't see it...as mentioned above

But Cam1 and Cam2 is a simple do with manual setting for ARMED

Set up one Mode 1 for cam 1 which you just manually arm and let it run

Mode 2 would include cam 1 and cam 2 which when leaving home, you just toggle from the first running mode over to the second as armed