25Modes, Rules, and Alerts
Essential Spotlight Camera
User Manual
Change motion sensitivity
You can edit a rule to change the motion sensitivity level for your cameras.
1. Open the Arlo app.
2. Tap Mode.
3. Select your camera.
4. Tap Edit
next to the mode.
5. Tap Edit
next to the rule.
6. Under If the following, tap Edit
next to Motion is detected.
7. Move the slider to adjust the sensitivity level for motion detection for this camera.
If you used a mobile device to specify the settings, your settings are saved.
8. If you used a browser to specify the settings, click Save.
Automatically stop recording when motion stops
1. Open the Arlo app.
2. Tap Mode.
3. Select your camera.
4. Tap Edit
next to the mode.
5. Under Then do the following, tap Edit
next to Record video.
6. Select Record until activity stops (up to 300 sec).
Control whether the spotlight turns on when
motion is detected at night
Unless you changed its settings, your camera automatically turns on its spotlight when it
detects motion at night. Your camera detects motion when it’s in Armed mode or another
mode that uses a rule for detecting motion. When the spotlight turns on at night, it allows
your Arlo camera to record video in color.
Note: You can also turn the spotlight on and o from the camera feed. (See Turn the camera
spotlight on and o on page 15.