Geofencing

[Craig_Ultra2]

I just recently set up “Geofencing”, and used two iPhones. Everything works fantastic. However, if I go into the mode option and select “disarm all devices”,  and then select “arm all devices”,  the mode defaults to “armed”. I want it to default to “Geofencing”.  Because now my “Geofencing” no longer works unless I manually set it in the mode settings. I would like to see a default parameter in settings that would allow me to set the default to “Geofencing”. The default that they put in there could be “armed”, but I would like to change that to “Geofencing”.

I feel this is a real concern. By setting up “Geofencing”, I would believe that I want it to always work, unless I go into the mode settings and manually change it. I  sometimes want to disarm all devices, but when I arm them again, I want geofencing activated. I don’t want to remember that I have to reset geofencing. 

I don’t know how to request this as a possible change to the Arlo app. 

[DannyBearAgain]

Normally you would set the mode to geofencing and leave it that way.

You can set geofencing away to use the armed mode, geofencing home to disarmed mode or a custom mode for when your home. I use schedule set with multiple custom modes. 

The lack of global  control of geofencing and schedule is a pain agree although once you have it configured you rarely need to change it.

[Craig_Ultra2]

Thanks for your reply.   

I am processing "Geofencing" by using "Away" and a custom setting.  It works fine.  However, during the summer we are outside a lot and I have 3 outside cameras that are constantly notifying me of activity.  So, I turn them off.  I know that we will sometime, just turn them back on and it will not be set to "Geofencing".  That troubles me, because I want the geofencing to always be the default when anyone turns all the devices back on.  My wife does not like technology, and I know she will just turn the cameras "off" and then "on".  I was hoping for some safe way of preventing that from happening.  That is why I would like to be able to set a default when you turn cameras back on. I love the Arlo cameras and would highly recommend them.  However, they lack a lot of sophistication.  

I hope they are going to support the "Matter" smart devices.  Then, I can control them with other software products.

[StephenB]

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@Craig_Ultra2 wrote:

I am processing "Geofencing" by using "Away" and a custom setting.  It works fine.  However, during the summer we are outside a lot and I have 3 outside cameras that are constantly notifying me of activity.  So, I turn them off. 

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One option is to disable notifications instead.  You'd still get recordings, but no nuisance notifications.

Notifications would be automatically re-enabled, so you wouldn't need to worry about forgetting.  And even if you did, you'd still be able to review recordings.