Arlo Pro 2 Solar panel Power issues

[dgcorner]

Hi Guys. Tried searching the community for this sort of issue... and found nothing... u less my search parameters are off...

Installed my 4-camera system yesterday and everything seemed fine till this afternoon. My external camera is powered by the solar panel.

When setting activity zones for this particular external camera I get a warning saying that the power source is unplugged but the charging icon is on. See attached screen capture.

Is this a known issue? Or do I need to reset the camera? Not a good start...

[mrbane]

In my case reboot resolved the power issue hopefully it works for you 

[dgcorner]

Thanks! I will reboot the camera when I get home... Hopefully this solves the issues.

[RichardGM · Accepted solution]

The Arlo Manual states that activity zones do not operate on the solar panel. You must plug the camera into AC power.

[dgcorner]

Thanks... just goes to show some men dont read the instruction manual hahaha

However, one would have thought that having the solar panel to recharge the battery on a daily basis would not interfere with activity zones... after all, the sensor's range would become narrower, hence would consume less power...

Oh well... I must reset the camera then as there seems to be no way to delete the activity zone once added... (it must be in the instructions booklet lol)

[jguerdat]

The solar panel is only a trickle charger. To use zones requires the camera to constantly stream which is why it has to be plugged into AC power.

[dgcorner]

Thank you very much for this.