Arlo|Smart Home Security|Wireless HD Security Cameras

Transfer camera from one base station to another, or have addl base stations work like Access Points

There should be a way to transfer a camera from one base station to another within the same account without having to delete it and re-sync it to the other base station.  I have several cameras (14 of them) permanatly mounted on the outside of my house and I shouldn't have to get on a ladder 15 feet in the air and click a sync button on the actual camera to resync them to the other base station.  Also, it loses their name and configuration, and by "transferring" it could potentially keep this info.

 

OR an even better idea would be to have multiple base stations work as one where there is a "master" and the others all work as extenders (communicating over their ethernet links or on their builtin Arlo proprietary WiFi).  The camera would auto-connect to the one with the highest signal strength, just like actual WiFi Access Point networks do.  Example: When you are connected to a network via WiFi, your device (such as your phone) will always communicate with the AP that has the highest signal strength and will even automatically switch between APs on the same network (broadcasting the same SSID and same credentials) as the signal strength changes; this is all seamless and the user never notices any type of interruption.  There is no reason that the Arlo base stations can't potentially work together in the same way.

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Dkreisb
Observer

Count me in too. I have 5 cameras on an older VMB4540r2 that I need to move to a VMB5000r5. So, I guess it is ladder time for me too.

 

Unfortunately, this time I don’t have a ladder holder, and some of the cameras are on 2nd floor locations.