Arlo Q Sensors?

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Do the Arlo sensors work with the Arlo Q cameras?
I’ve got a very basic set up working in v65.5 and even though the sensors show up in Hass.io they are all “unknown”.

camera.living_room idle access_token: 9130ba112fb0a23cc31a825cb222b70b3232144af5c86214985a4e286965c976
model_name: VMC3040
brand: Netgear Arlo
unseen_videos: 2
friendly_name: Living Room
entity_picture: /api/camera_proxy/camera.living_room?token=9130ba112fb0a23cc31a825cb222b70b3232144af5c86214985a4e286965c976

sensor.captured_today_living_room unknown attribution: Data provided by arlo.netgear.com
brand: Netgear Arlo
model: VMC3040
friendly_name: Captured Today Living Room
icon: mdi:file-video

Any feedback would be appreciated.

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I haven’t had any luck. Arlo Q may not be supported by the underlying library pyarlo:

https://github.com/tchellomello/python-arlo/issues/33

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Here is a PR adding Arlo Q support
https://github.com/tchellomello/python-arlo/pull/9

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Another HA thread with people reporting success. Unfortunately nobody has posted their configs.

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“Success” means that last captured image (attribute entity_picture) is working (just static image, no video) and there are no errors in log. Sensors are showing unknown status.

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Thanks. Is this a limitation of the underlying library or the Arlo HA component?

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I have an Arlo Q and it used to work great with Home Assistant. The sensors and all!
Since v52.0 I think is when it stopped working and then the camera feed started working again in v55.0 but the sensors didn’t work.
Now since the newest version of HASS I have no camera feed at all again. I think twice I noticed it pop up but since a restart it hasn’t popped back up yet.
I feel that most people buy the Arlo Pro’s and there aren’t many people to help test anymore.

One workaround I’ve found though is using IFTTT but as we all know is a drag and takes an additional 30 seconds to a minute to send or receive.

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