User experience

[alex_loo]

When I am home, I have scheduled for ARM HOME, enabling the camera at front door.  All good.

Trouble is: every time when I am leaving home, I need to exit via same front door, thereby triggering the camera --- unnecessarily.

How do I avoid this, without having to manually switching to STANDBY (with front door camera disabled) every time?  Under no subscription.

Alex

[StephenB]

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@alex_loo wrote:

Trouble is: every time when I am leaving home, I need to exit via same front door, thereby triggering the camera --- unnecessarily.

How do I avoid this, without having to manually switching to STANDBY (with front door camera disabled) every time?  Under no subscription.

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There is no other way.  Geofencing isn't precise enough.

The home security system would let you do this (there is a delay when you press "Away").  But that is not available in Australia.

[alex_loo]

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@StephenB wrote:

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@alex_loo wrote:

Trouble is: every time when I am leaving home, I need to exit via same front door, thereby triggering the camera --- unnecessarily.

How do I avoid this, without having to manually switching to STANDBY (with front door camera disabled) every time?  Under no subscription.

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There is no other way.  Geofencing isn't precise enough.

not too sure if we are after a geofencing solution --- precise or not.

My situation is leaving by exiting in front of my armed camera.  And I don't want to be reported. The solution may involve senors near door entrance, but I'd love hear some ideas.

Say, I have one solution that incoporates a door sensor that can be read by Google Home Automation. When the door is "open" as reported by sensor (ie I am opening the door leaving), GHA will change ARLO mode to STANDBY.  So that when I am exiting the door, I won't be reported the camera.

Trouble is:

• sometimes the sensor can be too slow reporting to GHA, and GHA is neither fast to change mode.
• the cheap sensor I was trying was not reliable.  Sometimes it simple does not report "door open" --- as unreliable as ARLO's geofencing

The home security system would let you do this (there is a delay when you press "Away").  But that is not available in Australia.

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This does not fit my situation, I am afraid.  I don't need a delayed mode change.  I need a "predictive" (regarding user next movements) mode change!

Alex