After linking my hub the first thing I did was link my Arlo pro cameras to my Smartthings. While the integration was relatively easy I quickly came across (what I consider) a major issue.
After the integration Smartthings sets the cameras to ‘Active’ which means that the motion sensors are always active and I get a notification whenever a cameras sees motion. I worked out I could use a Routine (Home) to turn off the cameras to stop this and then another routine (Away) to turn them on when I (everyone) leaves.
The problem I have with this is when I am home I sometimes still want to look at the cameras but with them turned off by the ‘Home’ routine I can not view live video in either the Smartthings or the Arlo app. Basically the cameras are completely turned off.
All I want to happen is when Smartthings registers that both my phone and my partners phone is ‘Away’ that my Arlo cameras are set to Arm mode. Is this possible? When one of us (or both) are home that Arlo is in Dis-armed mode but we can still view live video.
So basically the IFTTT applet will be: IF Smartthings mode is ‘Away’ set Arlo mode to ‘Armed’
And then a second applet for: IF Smartthings mode is ‘Home’ set Arlo mode to ‘Dis-armed’?
I leave my cameras in the Arlo Armed Mode and use Routines to activate/disarm the cameras. This avoids some of the inherent delay of using the Smartthings Mode in Arlo. If I want other sensors to trigger recording I use Smartthings Custom Rules.
I believe that the Arlo cameras must be active to view live and the original Wire Free and Pro models will stop recording after about 30 minutes of Live View. While in Live View they will not be recording. I am not sure about the Pro 2 cameras but I believe the Q and Q Plus models might be able to view live continuously.