So, where does one go into the IDE and change the device type?
I have the same issue with Arlo cameraās, so I donāt think it is a Pro issue.
Trying the āArmedā workaround for now.
I use WebCoRE to switch the cameraās on/off, so hopefully this will continue to work as intended without the annoyance of the smarthings rules getting overwritten constantly.
Yes, Iām using the āArmedā workaround after deleting the SmartThings mode in the Arlo tools. So I can turn the cameras off and on through SmartThings app or through the Alexa voice input. But some of these integration kits really need to work with NetGear and expose more of the functions to settings and modes to make this truly useful. Frustratingā¦
Same issue. So annoying. Thank god I found this thread.
I just bought an Arlo Pro to test it out, outside of ST. ST integration was a bonus not a necessity. However, I just integrated the cameras and am confused on something; where do clips record - Arlo cloud or ST cloud?
Right now I installed the Arlo smart app and integrated the camera. I only want to use SmartThings to enable and disable the camera as the Arlo geofence is much larger and it interferes with automatic arming when at relatives houses near-by.
So, I have the Arlo app set to āarmedā (there is a SmartThings mode Iām just not using it) and I have webCoRE turning on/off the camera based on presence.
With that said, will my clips still go to the Arlo cloud or do they go to ST? Or am I forced to setup SHM rules if the Arlo is integrated?
Thanks!
Will be on Arlo!
Thanks, @RobertK! Thatās exactly what I was hoping for. For future reference, does any type of setup with ST make ST the owner of the clips and it Arlo and its cloud? For example, if configured under SHM?
Thanks again!
So I just tested this today and in fact, itās not recording anything. I have a feeling this is because I left the āSmartThingsā Arlo mode there, I just enabled āArmedā. It appears that Arlo keeps defaulting to the āSmartThingsā mode instead. Iām going to delete that Mode and then choose armed and see what happens!
[EDIT] I just noticed under the SmartThings mode, it is set to not record video. Would it be best to just enable video recording on the ST mode in Arlo or delete the mode altogether and move to Arloās Armed mode instead?
I keep Arlo in my custom armed mode and donāt change it. Arlo app for viewing clips. I use SmartThings to turn cameras on and off based on various rules such as presence and doors.
Is your custom armed mode truly a custom mode you created? Or is it the SmartThings mode that you have customized? Iām trying to use the normal Armed mode in Arlo but it keeps changing back to āSmartThingsā
Itās an Arlo custom mode, not SmartThings within Arlo. I have camera 1 record if camera 2 has motion on top of the rule for camera 2 to record too. It allows me to capture āeastā and āwestā basically if something passes by. The default Armed in Arlo only allows 1 rule of each camera.
Also, Iāve gone into IDE of SmartThings and changed the cameras from Arlo Pro to Arlo as mentioned in another community discussion as something between Arlo and SmartThings likes to change the Arlo mode to SmartThings and not properly record. This has been stable for me after changing the camera type within SmartThings.
Itās crazy how this issue has been going on for more than two months since
I opened this thread, still no fixā¦
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Very interesting post - thank you. I use webCoRE extensively for other things and am picking up Arlo Pro with 4 cameras tomorrow. Iām hesitant based on all the issues reported here. But Iām wondering - If I donāt use the built-in rules and just use webCoRE for everything, should I expect to get good results and avoid this issue? Also can you post any pistons from webCoRE that demonstrate some common types of things people use the cameras for, as an example to learn from? Thanks!
here is something Iām experementing, the first motion sensor is a arlo camera on the top of my driveway facing towards the house, if it sees motion it checks 2 different arlo cameras (as well as a ring doorbell) for recent motion (they would trigger later if someone was actually on the driveway) and if itās not a false positive, send a ifttt to record on 3 different arlo pro cameras
as an addendum, to make this work right, I have the arlo cameras in question send an email to a dummy address if they detect motion -it seems like for ST work they do have to have motion detection on in some way - the other thing that sucks atm is that ifttt limits you to 60 seconds vs. the arlo pro ārecord till motion stopsā this piston is mainly for when I am home
Thanks! Why the 5 second wait in the beginning of the piston?
Can you please elaborate on what the IFTTT recipe is exactly? Does it cause it to record?
Perhaps it would be possible for @ady624 to add native support to webCoRE to be able to get it to record āuntil motion stopsā instead of having to use IFTTT with the 60 second limitationā¦ Are you saying that by using webCoRE and IFTTT we are limited to a max recording time of 60 seconds?
Perhaps itās possible instead to use webCoRE to trigger the Arlo Pro somehow so it then records until motion stops?
Also on a related note - I donāt have Ring but was thinking about using one of the Arlo Pro cameras in its place. Would you instead recommend that I get a Ring as well instead of trying to do that? I suppose you think that is better because otherwise you wouldnāt be using Ring too, unless you had it before getting the Arlo cameras?
Thanks!
I wanted to avoid using something like ring and try to use the arlo pro insteadā¦ with an amazon iot button as the doorbellā¦ just too annoying and poor performing - the two way audio feature of the arlo pro is mediocre at best and takes forever to connect (unreliably) alas this has been rock solid on the ring (non pro) I have - everything else on it (video quality, motion detection) is very mediocre, but because the device wakes up on the doorbell press connection for the two way audio and video is excellent - but unfortunately I will have some kind of arlo to actually reliably record video - in fact the driver for this piston is to catch a few different areas of my front driveway
also the arlo API is not public at the moment, it is shared with a few partners like ifttt, ST, stringify - itās still limited what it can do directly - I donāt believe webcore can record videos on it at the moment - and ifttt only allows for 60 minutes (stringify allows for longer but itās probably harder to integrate)
as another addendum, saw a bunch of these on my piston (but it seems to be working) Error calling comparison comp_changed: java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke method currentState() on null object
to answer your other question, 5 seconds is to wait for someone to actually be picked up further down the driveway by one of the other cameras
and I should also add Iāve only had the non pro ring for a few days so far (I do not have doorbell wiring) - an arlo doorbell would be super easy for them to build and be perfect but alas
Just tested with stringify - it can do multiple cameras up to 120 seconds with its web hook that works with webcore so will probably switch to that
yet another odd thing I just realized, probably a quirk of the Arlo API, if a camera is triggered to record, as far as ST is concerned it also activates itās motion sensor - which is interesting / useful