Hoping I can get some help. Recently set up the smartthings hub and integrated my arlo camera system using the classic app. My problem is somehow, smart things is setting my Arlo base station to “disarm” from “Armed” (non custom) automatically about every 30 minutes or so. Recently I noticed that …

What mode is it switching away from? Are you using custom modes?

I updated my original post with this information also. It’s switching from the stock “Armed” mode. I’m not using a custom mode.

[image] sn0wballz: I noticed that after adding my Arlo system to Smart Things there was a new Smart Things mode added to my camera. I understood that this is normal - although I’m not quite sure what action I did to cause that to happen. I deleted that mode - This is created automatically by …

Tony - I just reauthorized the arlo smart app and the custom mode wasn’t created. I thought that after I tried it the first time it would’ve added itself but it never did. I’ll keep trying to figure out what causes that mode to get autocreated.

I must’ve broken it by deleting the custom smart things mode. I created a new custom mode that is a copy of the stock Armed mode and that seems to stick. I’d love to bypass Arlo entirely but the integration with Smart Things just seems horrible. I’m not even sure how to set up rules in ST to get th…

For triggering recording from SmartThings, the typical approach is either SMH or webCoRE. You should be able to search and find many threads in the forums here with details.

There seems to be quite a bit of divergence on how to use and setup the Arlo system to work with Smartthings so I will just offer a little information from my experience with the integration. Arlo is in the process of changing things since the breakup with Netgear last Fall. It appears that Arlo i…

Brian, Thanks for that info. I’m not sure if deleting the smart things mode in Arlo is what caused my problems but there appears to be a periodic polling that ST does to the cameras and whenever that happened, if my Arlo was set to the stock Armed mode, it would change the mode to disarm. I’ve seem…

So Brian is pretty much spot on. The simplest way to view it is that Smarttings has no concept of mode but views the cameras as either on our off. With the cameras on you can detect audio or motion. Arlo has modes and gives you a few basic modes you can setup. You can also configure more advanced mo…

Arlo Disarming Automatically

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