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DawnM
Arlo Employee Retired

Hello Arlo Customers,

 

We are aware of a reported issue for some customers where motion may not have triggered recordings during a short time between 8am and 9:30am PST. Arlo services are now fully restored, and any new motion trigger events and recordings should be working as expected.

 

Thank you for your patience and we apologize for any inconvenience,

 

Arlo Team

 

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fmcalley
Tutor
Tutor
On May 19th for no apparent reason my base station registered (on the app) as “Offline” - “check to see if powered up”. I confirmed that it was powered on and connected to the same WiFi (that it has always been connected to) but on my app under “Devices” I couldn’t get a live feed. Instead I got the white text saying “check to see if powered on.” I tried turning off the base station. Tried re-syncing my cameras.... Norhings fixing the problem. Could this inconvenience be caused by the Arlo system down which occurred between 8am and 9:30am PST? Please help me get back on line. Thanks. FM
John1957
Tutor
Tutor

I have the same issues as others. In the past week, my Arlo cameras have stopped sending push alerts. Mos of the time they do pick up the motion and record the 10 second video, but no alert is sent to my iPhone. I have tried different cameras, I have rebooted the Arlo base station, I have turned push alerts on and off, I have turned off and on the iPhone notifications for Arlo, and I may get a few hours of alerts, but then it goes dead again. Nothing else has changed in my network environment. This appears to be a programming screw up by Netgear/Arlo in the version 2.5 update.

 

Hurry up and fix it and please communicate with the group as to an ETA.

Arthurzenian
Aspirant
Aspirant
As of today, Sunday, I still have the same issue. The minute you set it to “schedule” it becomes disarmed.. my schedule was also deleted from
The update.
ehouse11
Tutor
Tutor
My 1 camera is not recording since 5/17... all settings are in place, nothing changed - just won't record. Doesn't seem to detect motion
jamcgeough
Guide
Guide
Ok everyone, it appears that all 3 of my cameras are now (12:40pm PDT) working with recordings and notifications. Keeping my fingers crossed.
StretfordEnder
Apprentice
Apprentice
I didn’t even know it was possible to select schedule as a mode in geofencing mode. When did that become possible. I moaned at them for ages about that too.
LisaSum
Aspirant
Aspirant

For a month now I have been experiencing my cameras not detecting motion at night. At first it was from 11:30 pm - 4:30 a.m. EST. I called technical support and they had me switch from armed to custom mode. That didn't work. They then had me switch camera locations. This worked somewhat. I still have lapses of one hour time periods that motion doesn't record. I have insomnia so I hav looked at my cell phone and my WIFI is at FULL strength - better than during the day when the cameras work fine. I also know cars are driving past and the motion is not being detected. When I go "live" the camera works fine.

I've called numerous times to tech support with no help.

I've removed the cameras and added them back with no success.

What next?

SandiBeach
Star
Star

Still not receiving push notifications on my iPhone.  I get emails about motion detected, but not push notifications.  It's been an issue since 5/18/18.  Customer support walked me through all the "fixes", but it's still not fixed.  How long before the problem is corrected?

CG-B810
Guide
Guide
2nd day without iPhone notifications - but I’m sure receiving email alerts for every new report of Arlo users having trouble since this update!
phil1344
Guide
Guide

base station keeps shutting down for no reson cameras not recording but show live i got one working today

by changing the battries

jedrhiggins
Tutor
Tutor

It looks like schedule mode has not been working all weekend (5/18 - 5/20). My schedule was active, but no motion or triggers were activated (yet motion had occurred). I've rebooted my basestation and cleared and tried to re-enter my schedule, neither helped. In fact, I can't seem to set a new schedule any more...nothing stays the way I set it. I'm on permanent activated mode now and it's working in that mode. I'm disappointed with Chat mode help and I couldn't find an email to submit my problem. The "notices page" on your site seems to minimized the problem, yet from some of the comments indicate its an on-going problem

JohnA73
Initiate
Initiate
I’m still not getting any recordings during motion detection.
Odragde
Aspirant
Aspirant
Motion icons are not working after last update. Also, schedule is not working properly. Help!!!!!
Rectro33
Tutor
Tutor

For now you need to avoid using the schedual, and use a custom mode that you may have used within a schedual.  When I do this I can get notifications and motion triggerd recordngs.

 

Dan

Crj1112
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Initiate
I have 2 cameras and one i can live view but won't pick up motion but the other one does. Ive turned them off, taken batteries out, removed devices and re synced, charged batteries to 100 percent and still no luck. Any ideas if the issues with the motion situation is still not working? Wondering if the one camera is not working correctly.
Telina79
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Initiate
Mine are still detecting motion but no video being recorded....
FridaCat
Guide
Guide

I am still having issues with my Arlo Pro 2 not detecting motion.  I did the motion detection test on my cameras, and they test fine, but my Arlos does not automatically detect motion when armed.  I have rebooted my system, re-added/re-synched cameras, etc, but still no motion detection.  I was having the offline issues (where sporadically the app would say my cameras and/or Arlo system was offline), but that seems to have gone away for now.    

Zedlitz
Aspirant
Aspirant
Still not recording motion
Kind1s
Apprentice
Apprentice
What about the issue where the cameras haven’t recorded via motion for week now. Yes a week we’ve had $400 paperweights.
Raquela
Tutor
Tutor
Is this still happening?
Arthurzenian
Aspirant
Aspirant
Yes, very much so. When I change the mode to “”Schedule” it instantly changes to “disarmed” I can’t change, add or delete schedules. It’s always blank.
Arthurzenian
Aspirant
Aspirant
Yes, very much so. When I change the mode to “”Schedule” it instantly changes to “disarmed” I can’t change, add or delete schedules. It’s always blank.
FridaCat
Guide
Guide

Just talked to support. They acknowledged the issue is still ongoing for me and escalated the issue to next level.  However, they gave me a work-around that seems to work for me...add a custom mode (you can add each camera to the custom mode) and activate it.  Now video is recording and notifications, both push and email, are working for me.  I was using geofencing but am now using the custom mode, so at least I can manually activate/disable Arlo as desired.  It's better than nothing for me.

JohnA73
Initiate
Initiate

I just got off a tech support chat session. They had me Remove the base station in settings, reset the base station and the add the base station and the cameras all over again. It seems to have worked for me.

Kind1s
Apprentice
Apprentice
I don’t know about this but a lot of us haven’t had and recording or motion sensors for a week now.