My only complaint with Arlo is the night time burglar prevention did not really help given several options with big tradoffs. I hope this solution will help you to fine tune to your own needs. Because I was not even woken up by Arlo’s mere beep and didn’t want to use the Arlo siren (which would just wake up and scare my kids and probably wouldn’t even faze a burglar, since it’s not even positioned in the right place to scare off a burglar), my car was robbed twice in the last six months. I would recommend it for many people to have rather than a siren that may go off for a false alarm or scare/wake up kids when a squirrel wanders by. This is a personal alert option through your phone that provides a customized, longer alarm option instead of a small beep. That option is obviously available but presents problems to many people. I would be glad to put the Android version on here as well.Īlso, just to clarify to everyone, this is to configure it so that a customized alarm that goes off on your phone (even in Do Not Disturb mode), not the immobile alarm at the access point/router of your Arlo system. There is a slight delay sometimes (maybe 30 seconds), maybe better if on cellular, as this process takes a little extra time to complete it’s cycle. Go ahead and put your phone on Do Not Disturb. Save your changes so that your new contact, Arlo Alert, is permanently set to Emergency Bypass and is assigned a ringtone alarm. You are setting up an alert, disguised as a RingTone, in whatever style you want, to let you know that your Arlo has detected something. I chose “Alarm” from the Classic menu at the bottom, but you can’t really go wrong here. Instead, proceed down to Ringtones (yes, you can use a Ringtone for your texts if you set it up this way.) Select your Ringtone, which is essentially a 30 second alarm, and there are a lot of options. I would recommend skipping this section because Alert Tones will not wake you up and last about five seconds. At the very top of the next screen, Select Emergency Bypass (this allows the bypassing of Do Not Disturb Mode.) While still in Edit Mode under your new contact called Arlo Alert, select Text Tone. In edit mode, create a new email address, and it needs to be exact: 3 Create a new contact with any name (a good one would be Arlo Alert, so let’s go with that for this.) Name the new contact Arlo Alert. [10-digit phone [10-digit phone (MMS) Example: phone Example: CellularĮ (SMS) [10-digit phone (MMS) Example: phone [10-digit phone (MMS) Example: Mobile USAĪfter that is completed, go to your iPhone Contacts. [10-digit telephone Example: PCS (now Sprint Nextel) [10-digit phone Example: (now Sprint Nextel) [10-digit phone [10-digit phone (MMS) [10-digit phone Example: Mobile [10-digit phone Example: (formerly Cingular) I would recommend checking it by setting off your motion detector and confirming you receive a text message about it. Just be sure to enable the email notifications and put in the correct phone number and email format. You should Google your carrier's Email to SMS Gateway to confirm these are still accurate or check yours if it isn't on the list I’m re-posting the one from earlier in the post here. When you enable the Email Alerts, use the chart that has already been provided regarding phone carriers. So if you have a rule called "Night time" and have two areas of motion or sound detection, make sure you check email alerts on both of them. Must first login as admin (on any device) and enable Email Alerts for each event that you want this to work with. Just follow these four steps on each device. IFTTT and other third-party apps do not work well. This is a work around for not having a different notification option through the Arlo app, one that lasts longer and can be customized. For iPhone users, here is the solution to (a) keep your Do Not Disturb secure so that you can sleep through the night, and (b) actually set an alarm to wake you up if an intruder comes by.
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