Getting notifications for a tree blowing

[zorkzamboni]

App is unusable. I can filter my videos by 'animal', 'person', vehicle, ect. when browsing but can't find any way to make it actually stop sending notifications and stop wasting battery life recording hundreds of videos of 'motion', which is usually just a tree branch blowing in the wind. I can't see this as anything other than a glaring oversight, or maybe I'm just having a hard time navigating the app. Either way it's a bad, unnavigable, unresponsive app with a lot of missing features. There should be a faster way to delete videos too. I wouldn't recommend this to anybody and I will get something different as soon as I can.

[StephenB]

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@zorkzamboni wrote:
App is unusable. I can filter my videos by 'animal', 'person', vehicle, ect. when browsing but can't find any way to make it actually stop sending notifications 

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Have you gone into settings->smart notifications?  Then select the camera, and turn off the notification categories you don't want?

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@zorkzamboni wrote:
stop wasting battery life recording hundreds of videos of 'motion

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A common misconception here.  The classification is done in the Arlo cloud (and given the limitations of AI processing in a battery-powered device, it has to be done there).  

So whenever motion is detected, the video will be streamed to the cloud for analysis.  Arlo could supress recordings of unwanted categories if they chose (as they already do with activity zones).  But that will not save battery life, since the camera processing would be identical.

The only ways to reduce the amount of video streaming related to motion detection are to 

• adjust the field of view 
• reduce the motion sensitivity in the camera rules