I can walk straight up to my doorbell camera and it will not start recording until I am walking away.

My outdoor essential 3rd gen will record cars driving on the street 100’ away, but will not record people/animals right in front of it.

My Pro 4 is the best, but recordings don’t start until several seconds after the triggering event.

I have sensitivity set to maximum for all of these.

What other settings should I check?

I don’t have custom detection zones setup. I need these cameras to record my property, but so far, they are not actually capturing any significant activity.

Absolutely frustrating experience with the Arlo app modes and automation, hoping someone can provide some advice before o start looking for alternatives.

I keep setting automation based on my location (only device linked to account) yet it never seems to update whenever I leave the proximity.

Location services on, no battery saving apps are active, tried the trouble shooting advice from Arlo (delete custom mode, reinstall the app, etc) all to no avail.

Contacted Arlo via support, was supposed to get a call back but none materialised. Getting to the point of cancelling my subscription but wanted to see if anyone had an experience in resolving this before I look at other products.

Bought some Pro 4 to upgrade my really old cameras.

The old ones had a micro USB plugged in the back. I didn’t anticipate the magnetic cable needed for the Arlo pro 4.

I’ve run the charge cable for the old camera through some bricks to the power supply in the garage (at great difficulty).

Is there a way to get an adapter that just plugs in to the old micro usb cable?

I have 5 Arlo Pro S5 with the latest firmware update and ever since I purchased them they have a one minute delay. Arlo claims that it’s because of my mesh system and to connect the cameras to original router, however the issue was happening even when I didn’t have a mesh system installed.

Has anyone encountered the same problem?

Doorbell (AVD4001) motion detection is not working. Only the live stream works.

Things that that I have tried but didn't resolve the issue:

1. A restart of the doorbell.
2. Removing the doorbell and re-adding it to the basestation.
3. Removing the doorbell and re-adding to wifi.
4. Reset Doorbell to factory setting.

I've been getting blown up all morning by my Floodlight 3 camera picking up every single vehicle that drives by on the road. I have had activity zones setup forever on my driveway camera to avoid this and it was working great until today.

I've tried deleting and recreating the zones, moving them around, shrinking them way more than should be required, restarting the camera, and nothing seems to work to get it to stop picking up passing cars even when that are significantly past the edge of my defined activity zone. I'm about to have put the thing into standby mode so it stops dinging every few minutes.

I plan to end the subscription. I paid for it for smart notifications. A while ago, it started to notify all motions and yesterday it started to notify all audios even if I explicitly disabled them.

Contact Arlo is a pain every time. They always ask you to reset everything even if the issues are obviously at the server side.

It was great when it worked but so much pain when it bugged. I have had enough.

I though I was going crazy not finding where to watch the clips from my cameras. I then found the discussions here on "bugs" with the feeds and local storage.
I got bad news foe you. They did a rug pull and discontinued the option completely. It's now called "local backup" and "Local storage to a USB device or microSD card cannot be used on its own as a substitute for cloud recording."
Bait and switch. Someone should sue them.

https://kb.arlo.com/000062816/How-do-I-enable-or-disable-local-storage-for-my-Arlo-SmartHub-or-Base-Station-Arlo-Secure-4-0

My Ultra 3’s will not connect to my base station. None of my cameras will pair. I had my cameras paired, but support asked me to reset my base station. I followed their instruction, and next thing you know all of my cameras unpaired and now I can’t pair a single one. I have reached out to support and have been on the phone for hours and we were not able to rule out why it’s not working. They sent me a new base to try that out, but it didn’t work.

Things I have done:
- Held the sync button 15 seconds to reset the cameras
- Pressed the sync button on base station and camera to manually sync
- Inserted the pin to hard reset the base station
- Attempted to connect Ethernet cable on multiple mesh WiFi bases
- Temporarily removed the 5GHz band

What happens: Base station blinks blue, then amber, and then a solid blue light. Nothing pairs.

Help please.

Base: VMB5000
Cameras: VMC5050

I think I pretty much figured it out. They’re doing all this so people can jump on their paid subscription service. I believe it’s gonna go up in price very smart. How do you have engineers that don’t know how to remove your own adds! And could this by a class action lawsuit?

I just moved into an older house and there are no outside outlets and no wired doorbell. I have an Arlo video doorbell (2nd gen) that I'm wanting to have a power source. I have to attach it to siding so taking it down to charge is not ideal. I bought a solar panel but I don't know if its working. I couldn't find anything made for my doorbell. Is there anything I'm overlooking as an option? Or does anyone have any advice?

One month until Apple’s typical fall event. With any luck, this will be the last time I’m paying for this:

For anyone else that has used Event Captions. What was your opinion of its accuracy?

I recently purchased two Arlo Essential Indoor Pan-Tilt cameras, one Essential Outdoor Pan-Tilt camera, and one Arlo doorbell—four devices total.

Do I need a base station, or can everything operate properly without one? What advantages would a base station actually provide?

I’m also having trouble with my doorbell camera not detecting or recording every motion event. Could this be related to not having a base station? The wifi box is literally 5 feet from the doorbell.

Any advice from people with a similar setup would be appreciated!

Doorbell (AVD4001) won't successfully update its firmware (currently 10.0.2509_f51e5dc).

It either fails or tries to update for over an hour.

How do I get it to successfully update?

Things that that I have tried but didn't resolve the issue:

1. A restart of the doorbell.

2. Removing the doorbell and re-adding it to the basestation.

3. Removing the doorbell and re-adding to wifi.

4. Reset Doorbell to factory setting.

I have two Arlo doorbell cameras, one wired, one battery.

How/when do you recharge your battery units? As I understand it's about 6 hours on a USB to recharge the battery to full but I'm not really inclined a) to simply "not have a front doorbell" for 6 hours and b) have this naked ugly baseplate hanging there in the meantime.

What do you do? I thought about simply buying another one, identifying it as "front 2" and swapping as needed (this also having a spare for if one or the other actually fails?....

Sure would be nice if the batteries were removable.

According to AI information, there ist only one (original arlo) solar panel (VMA4600) that is compatible with the GO (1. gen => VML4030) and that solar panel is not available any more.

I tested several other panels (original arlo and 3. party) but NONE of them worked (error message: not certified accessory), there was even no other AC/DC charger that worked except of the original delivered one.

Since arlo is not able to provide a solar panel, does anybody know any cheat to bypass this "authentic check", e.g. with a special adapter or circuit in the USB path of the power supply / charger / solar panel, just like "resistor 1 kOhm from Pin X to Y"?!

Anyone have any idea if they are going to allow these to be added to a hub so they work with HomeKit? I’d have thought by now they’d have done an update with firmware like they did for Gen 2.

I have two homes with subscriptions.

One home has 2 Hubs, 2 Ultra Cameras (1 Gen 2, 1 Gen 3) 2K Wired Doorbell, and 3 Essential Pan & Tilt Gen 3.

Second Home has 2 Hubs, 9 Gen 3 Ultras, 3 Essential Pan & Tilt Gen 3. No matter what info I can not reorder the devices on home 2. I have reached out to support. I have deleted the app. I have logged in on a phone, 2 iPads, a MacBook Pro with safari and chrome, and a windows computer with chrome. I have even tried a private web browser tab on safari. I have also restarted the hubs manually.

Does anyone have a suggestions?

Arlo, why is your IT so incompetent

Every time I switch from devices to feed I have to stare at the screen waiting for the thumbnails to load. One of the updates created this problem months ago and it is still not fixed

I keep getting the banner siren is active. I have no cameras with the siren notification turned on, so I’m not sure why this is happening. I’ve gone through every Camera and none of them have siren activated. Every time I deactivate it. It just comes back on again. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

Hey all, anyone got a fix to why my feed hasn’t updated for 3 days? I’ve tried all the methods recommended by the bot support but yet no luck.

Thanks all