Right now, mode control is not an available feature in the partner integration. The intent is to drive it via automations. But it may be something we can explore in the future.
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It works… But I had to eventually configure it on my email provider. You guus donanlot of work to make sure theres a valid email in there. I obviously cant use push notifications because i cant intercept thwm abd turnthem off.
What I did, basically equates to flagging your outbound SMTP sender as Junk.
Its easy for me to do on my end… THeres other ways to do this, because I administer my own emai on O365 (drop into an other folder, transport rules, etc…) but this was the easiest. Its also the most problematic for you guys.
Reason: I flag you as junk. Cool, it solves the issue. No inbound email. But I’m on Office 365. Guess where you’re flagged? Exchange Online Protection. That covers ALL of Microsoft properties. It wont take too many more usefs doing the same before you guys get blacklisted. 
Sorry.
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RFC2606 addresses seem to be accepted.
That’s a change they used to validate it.
Still its bad form for them to force a bogus email to send to.it just clogs thier SMTP sender.
I understand what thsybwere trying to accomplish. Its just a very ham fisted way of doing it. If they just allowed it to accept no selection there it would be fine. Edit:ot a better way to say it. Motion alone should be a valid selection.
I want to say thank you for the SmartThings and Arlo for handling the Schema integration pretty well. You communicated, you listened, made some of the requested changes and communicated about why some were not possible, at this time.
This was very refreshing. OTHERS AT SAMSUNG could learn a lesson about how to respond to customers.
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Ok, it seems that most of the SmartThings/Arlo integration features that I use are available in the new Schema.
On/Off Privacy Mode: Check
Motion Detection: Check
Record Triggering: Check
In the current Arlo Connect Schema, record triggering is only available natively in the STHM and wasn’t available in Automations. If I’m reading all of your responses correctly, then I’d like to thank you for making record triggering available in Automations and Scenes the new Schema.
Sound Detection: It is being looked at it for integration at a later time.
That leaves a few features that I haven’t mentioned yet.
In the new Schema, can I still put the Arlo cameras in SmartThings Camera Groups where all four cameras appear in a grid ‘and live stream automatically’ when opening the camera group?
Is the Arlo camera battery level available in SmartThings using the new Arlo Schema?
• It’s just the Arlo low battery notifications have been inconsistent at times and it’s nice to have SmartThings backing it up and alerting me too about low camera battery levels.
Does SmartThings monitor the Arlo cameras for device health in the new Schema?
• If so, then I’m hoping it’s less than the 6 hour window you mentioned above for the ‘periodic state check’.
• If not, then are the Arlo camera RSSI level events still available in the SmartThings IDE (see below)?
• I just need something to monitor the Arlo cameras since Arlo does not have the ability to notify me when an Arlo camera (or the Arlo Base Station for that matter) goes offline. So right now under the current SmartThings Arlo Connect Schema, I’m using a 3rd party Device Monitor SmartApp set to a one hour device inactivity timeout. This SmartApp apparently monitors SmartThings for the Arlo camera device events. Currently the Arlo camera device RSSI level events appear at least once an hour which I can see in the IDE on the Arlo camera device Events page.
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Interesting comment on the SmartThings app screen when I went to the section to add Arlo cameras to SmartThings. I wonder what they mean by ‘not certified’, especially after all the work they are putting into this new Schema.
Yes, currently in Android the camera groups work well with 4 cameras at once in a group. In IOS, we have an issue with camera groups not working but we already have a fix ready with the next app release which is occurring this month. The exact date is TBD as it goes through Apple approval etc.
We also have stability improvements with the live streaming occurring in the upcoming release of the ST app for Android and IOS.
Yes, the cameras will get the battery events consistently. Every 6 hours, the battery state will be updated if there is an update required. Low battery notification should successfully be triggered for cams when automation for it is sent in ST. Please keep us posted if you see any anomalies.
Does SmartThings monitor the Arlo cameras for device health in the new Schema?
• If so, then I’m hoping it’s less than the 6-hour window you mentioned above for the ‘periodic state check’.
Yes, the device’s health is monitored. if the camera goes offline in the utmost 6hours the device should be marked offline in the ST app. At this moment, with the Arlo eventing mechanism architecture, the offline and online events are received every 6 hours once.
• If not, then are the Arlo camera RSSI level events still available in the SmartThings IDE (see below)?
We will take a look at if such events are surfaced via schema.
• I just need something to monitor the Arlo cameras since Arlo does not have the ability to notify me when an Arlo camera (or the Arlo Base Station for that matter) goes offline. So right now under the current SmartThings Arlo Connect Schema, I’m using a 3rd party Device Monitor SmartApp set to a one-hour device inactivity timeout. This SmartApp apparently monitors SmartThings for the Arlo camera device events. Currently, the Arlo camera device RSSI level events appear at least once an hour which I can see in the IDE on the Arlo camera device Events page.
in the new ST schema, with every 6-hour device health check, the device will report the offline/online state. Also in the schema, we rely on the Arlo event to indicate the health of the device. In the older integration, the mechanism for determining the health state was different and it was based on polling. So the events that are shown in IDE could be different from a device health perspective
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We have launched the integration currently as “Compatible With SmartThings”. Our main goal initially has been to listen to our valued user feedbacks, apply fixes where required and continue to provide the ebst experience possible.
In the background, our certification team has been all hands on deck certifying the devices supported by the integration. We are on track to complete the Works With SmartThings certification upon which the status will be changed accordingly in the catalog.
Isn’t breaking glass going to trigger the vibration sensor or does STHM ignore vibration?
Roger that, at least a 6 hour device health check is better than nothing from Arlo. Thank You.
Will I receive any in app or other notification when migration to this new Arlo Schema has happened? Or do I just look at the Linked Services to see if the the current ‘Arlo (Connect)’ has changed to just ‘Arlo’ for the new Schema?
I’m sure the STHM doesn’t currently use the vibration sensor in the multipurpose sensors because I’d have to exclude one of my multipurpose sensors if it did since the ‘Sound of Freedom’ military jets that fly nearby tend to set off the vibration in one of my multipurpose sensors all the time, and it hasn’t set off the STHM intrusion alert when it’s armed and they are flying. I tried using the SmartThings Door Knocker SmartApp with that multipurpose sensor, but had to delete it because it kept triggering notifications when they are flying.
When will the arlo doorbell appear in the new app?
It already does, just no button press capability I think
That’s what I’m saying, it will display as a camera only
So no button capability for the doorbell
If you want that you have to get a ring (and in fact that is what I use it for, I make custom doorbell sounds with the zooz siren and leave the mechanical chime disabled (from ring app settings))