User Manual
Table Of Contents
- 1. Get to Know Your Essential Series Camera
- 2. Get Started
- Use the Arlo app for installation and setup
- Charge your camera indoors
- Use the sync button to wake the camera
- Check the LED
- Find a good location for your camera
- Wall mount your camera
- Connect an optional Essential Solar Panel (sold separately
- Test motion detection
- Position your camera to detect motion in specific areas
- Arm your camera to detect motion
- 3. WiFi Setup and Connections
- 4. Use Your Essential Series Camera
- 5. Modes, Rules, and Alerts
- Arm or disarm all your Arlo devices
- Modes
- Select a mode
- Mute Notifications
- Rules for modes
- Change motion sensitivity
- Control whether the spotlight turns on when motion is detected
- Use a rule to activate the camera’s siren
- Add a rule with an optional base station siren trigger
- Manage alerts
- Schedule when your camera is armed
- Set up Arlo Geofencing
- Geofencing with multiple mobile devices
- Custom modes
- 6. Change Your Settings
- Two-step verification
- Use face or fingerprint authentication
- Customize your profile
- Change your Arlo password
- Reset a forgotten password
- Grant access to friends
- Change the time zone
- Camera settings
- Video Settings
- Adjust the audio settings
- Adjust the flicker setting
- Restart the camera from the Arlo app
- View device information
- Remove a device from your account
- Optional SmartHub and Base Station settings
- 7. SmartHub SD Card Storage
- 8. SmartHub or Base Station USB Storage
- 9. Arlo Connect
- 10. Troubleshooting
20Use Your Essential Series Camera
Arlo Essential Series Wire-Free Camera
User Manual
Turn the camera spotlight on and o manually
When your Essential Spotlight Camera is armed and detects motion at night the spotlight
turns on automatically. You can also adjust the spotlight behavior and turn it on and o.
To turn the spotlight on and o from the camera feed:
1. Open the Arlo app.
2. Tap the camera feed.
3. Tap Spotlight
.
4. To adjust the brightness, tap and hold the icon and adjust the slider.
5. To turn o the spotlight, tap Spotlight
.
For information about how to customize the spotlight settings, see Change the Low Light
settings for an Essential Spotlight Camera on page 44.
Customize your camera feed image
If you use more than one camera, you can change the order in which the camera feeds display
on the Devices page. You can also zoom or rotate the camera feed image 180 degrees.
Change the camera order
1. Open the Arlo app.
2. Tap Settings.
3. Under DEVICE SETTINGS, tap Device Order.
4. If you are using a smartphone or tablet, tap Edit at the top of the page.
A list icon displays.
5. Tap and hold the list icon and drag each device to the correct position on the list.
6. Tap Save.
Rotate a camera feed image 180 degrees
1. Open the Arlo app.
2. Tap Settings > My Devices.
3. Select the camera.
4. Tap Video Settings.