topic Re: App Suggestions in Arlo

App Suggestions

KachinaShadow — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 20:12:44 GMT

How about being able to see the battery level by just hovering over (web portal) or tapping the battery icon (app) in either the "Dashboard" or the "Devices" page without having to go all the way to the devices page in settings.

...and while we're on the subject of suggestions, how about adding a slider to the lights on the "Devices" page so that you can manually turn on multiple lights while remaining on the same page without having to click on each light to go to the slider then go back and click on another light to go to the slider and back & forth numerous times...it doesn't make sense to not be able to quickly turn on lights and then be able to quickly turn on live feed for one or more cameras while staying on the same page.

Re: App Suggestions

KachinaShadow — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 20:54:13 GMT

@JamesC @BrookeN
Maybe you could forward these suggested features to add, to someone who makes these kind of decisions...

How about being able to see the battery level by just hovering over (web portal) or tapping the battery icon (app) in either the "Dashboard" or the "Devices" page without having to go all the way to the devices page in settings.

...and while we're on the subject of suggestions, how about adding a slider to the lights on the "Devices" page so that you can manually turn on multiple lights while remaining on the same page without having to click on each light to go to the slider then go back and click on another light to go to the slider and back & forth numerous times...it doesn't make sense to not be able to quickly turn on lights and then be able to quickly turn on live feed for one or more cameras while staying on the same page.

Re: App Suggestions

BrookeN — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 16:20:36 GMT

Thank you for providing these feature suggestions, I will pass them onto our development team.

Re: App Suggestions

KachinaShadow — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 17:17:20 GMT

@BrookeN wrote:
Thank you for providing these feature suggestions, I will pass them onto our development team.

I'm absolutely 100% impressed with the Arlo team and thank you Brooke.

Adding a gear/cog settings icon to each device now makes it super easy to check battery levels, along with being able to quickly change settings without having to wade through multiple screens. And, being able to just click on the bulb icon for each light, from the devices page, makes it super easy to turn on lights and then quickly jump to cameras and turn on live feed.

Re: App Suggestions

KachinaShadow — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 18:00:00 GMT

@BrookeN

Since that worked, I have one more 🙂...

When you're viewing a video and you pause it to see a better view of let's say, a person's face, and you then need to move that paused image a few frames with the slider...as soon as you move the slider the video starts playing and you have to go back and try to, once again, pause it a couple of frames from where you originally paused it...it's an almost impossible task.
How 'bout having it remain paused while moving the slider (like most video players) and not begin playing again until play is pressed.

Re: App Suggestions

BrookeN — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 18:31:12 GMT

I can add this one as well. Thank you for the feedback.

Re: App Suggestions

KachinaShadow — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 18:59:07 GMT

@BrookeN
Hi Brooke,
Maybe you could add this one as well...

It sure would be nice to be able to backup & reinstall, or even be able to print, the settings in routines so that it could either be easily loaded back into routines or at least have a printed list of settings so that in the, more often than not, event of having to remove and reinstall various devices to solve issues, it would then make it easier to recreate those same routines without trying to remember just what you had previously set.
This may be wishful thinking, but the settings in routines can end up being very complex, especially for those with a lot of devices that interact with each other.

Thanks,

Paul