Arlo Interface with SmartThings for motion alerts?

[jkp]

Arlo subscription required for "Activity Zone" feature w/ST

After thinking it was a bug and spending time with Arlo support on the phone, I have been informed that a subscription is required to get the “activity zone” feature to work with SmartThings integration. This is a disappointment – has anyone else run into this? Basically whenever I edit the zones to enable them within the ST custom mode within Arlo, those settings get rewritten back to the default of detecting movement “everywhere”. The zones feature works fine in the native Arlo “armed” mode (settings persist), just not in the ST custom mode. Lack of the zone capability makes the camera’s detection feature unusable in my application. I have alternate ST sensors I can trigger off for recording, but had expected to be able to leverage the camera’s feature as an additional sensor for i…