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