Hello @HernerKlenthur could you share here or open an issue with the traceback you are getting for us to troubleshoot it?
Will do. I am also going to confirm if this is ONLY an ArloQ issue.
Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but Iāll give it a shot. It would be great if sensors for camera battery levels and connection status could be added.
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I am not getting any useful traceback information. I finally bought some batteries for my base station arlos and AM getting a pop up and playback using the settings above ( pasted below again ). The playback is SUPER grainy and crappy lol. I am messing with the settings.
Looks like it is an issue with ArloQ which wont give me any playback where as the others I get playback just really bad playback of no value. Let me know what else I can do to help solve it.
Open to suggestions.
ffmpeg:
ffmpeg_bin: /usr/bin/ffmpeg
arlo:
username: *****
password: *****
camera:
platform: arlo
ffmpeg_arguments: ā-filter:v setpts=40.0*PTSāIs it possible to trigger the capture of video from an Arlo Pro using a seperate motion detector outside? I want to position the camera behind glass in doors and motion detection does not work through glass.
You can do that with IFTTT. Let the motion detector send a command to IFTTT and let IFTTT start the recording in Arlo.
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Has any one seen stability issues with HA/HASSIO and the Arlo component?
Iām transitioning my HA set up to HASSIO, and was finally able to get the Arlo component to work, my previous docker install would never work for some reason. Anyway, since bring HASSIO up and adding components and devices, it got slower and slower, and at some point it would grind to a halt, and become completely unresponsive not long (few minutes max) after restarting HA - refreshing the URL would get a Site Canāt be reached message in Chrome . I turned on logger, and watched the log, the last message in the log before becoming non-responsive is a call to arlo.
2017-08-09 11:31:00 DEBUG (SyncWorker_3) [pyarlo] Querying https://arlo.netgear.com/hmsweb/users/devices on attempt: 0/3
2017-08-09 11:31:00 DEBUG (SyncWorker_7) [pyarlo] Querying https://arlo.netgear.com/hmsweb/users/devices on attempt: 0/3
After disabling arlo, HA/HASSIO has no problems, and is much more responsive over all.
Thanks, works perfectly
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Howdy!
Iām having some trouble getting this to work. Iāve followed the installation instructions on the gitpage (https://github.com/tchellomello/python-arlo, the command was $ pip install pyarlo) so it seems like itās installed.
My configuration.yaml contains this:
# Arlo
arlo:
username: xxx
password: xxx
and my cameras.yaml contains this:
- platform: arlo
My homeassistant log provides me with this (Iāve removed that which worked):
Configuration invalid.
Testing configuration at /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant
2017-08-16 00:27:15 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.loader] Unable to find component arlo
2017-08-16 00:27:15 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Setup failed for arlo: Component not found.
2017-08-16 00:27:15 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.config] Invalid config for [camera.arlo]: required key not provided @ data[āpasswordā]. Got None
required key not provided @ data[āusernameā]. Got None. (See ?, line ?). Please check the docs at https://home-assistant.io/components/camera.arlo/
2017-08-16 00:27:15 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Setting up sun
2017-08-16 00:27:15 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.loader] Unable to find component sensor.arlo
Failed config
General Errors:
- Component not found: arlo
- Setup failed for arlo: Component not found.
- Platform not found: sensor.arlo
camera.arlo:
platform: arlo
Successful config (partial)
camera.arlo:
Am I missing something obvious?
Thanks alot in advance!
This is what I have in my configuration.yaml
arlo:
username: [email protected]
password: arlopassword
What version of HA are you running?
Hey BendedArrow!
Whoops, apparently Iām running Home Assistant 0.45.1. I guess I need to update it 
Iāll be back if that doesnāt work. Thanks for the gentle push
any updates on detecting motion and being able to use it on automation?
Hello,
In the current implementation the āentity_id: camera.arlo_frontdoorā string in arm/disarm service call is irrelevant as the whole system is armed/disarmed regardless of the specified camera, is this a limitation of the Arlo API?
Is it possible to have custom modes in addition to the arm and disarm modes? That would solve the āarm some cameras but not allā issue with the current implementation.
It seams as it is a limitation in the Arlo API. IFTT have the same limitations and there is several threads in the arlo forum regarding this
There is some talk on a solution at the smartthings forum:
Actually my mistake, I believe this is still just the base station.
Does anyone know if its possible for home assistant to receive push notifications? Arlo can be setup to send these out, it would be great if there was some way to intercept this in home assistant so I can trigger other automations.
What is interesting about the two main requests at this point 1) custom mode selection and 2) motion detection is that I can use both with homebridge. I have three arlo pro cameras with the hub/siren, home assistant running on a pi3, and Wink 2 as my hub. Arlo component is setup in home assistant; the cameras are configured in Wink (update released last week to add them). I have homebridge, homebridge-wink3, and homebridge-arlo plugins.
From the Home app and in conjunction of the homebridge-arlo plugin, I have the option to select two custom modes (mode1, mode2) - more info here - https://www.npmjs.com/package/homebridge-arlo (see āOptional Parametersā heading). So, I have a custom arlo mode used for āStayā and āNightā in the Home app.
Upon connecting my arlo pro cams to Wink, in the Home app I had three motion sensors show up - one for each of my cameras. After reviewing logs, this seems to be passing over via the homebridge-wink3 plugin. They seem reliable as Iāve tested some automations with them in the home app.
With all of that said, Iād much rather use HA to control all of these and not rely on Apple Home. To me, it sure looks like the Arlo APIs are exposed and available in some manner for both custom modes and motion (the latter could be iffy since itās coming from wink but obviously not just closed off to Arlo).
I just updated the python Arlo library to support custom mode selection and @tchellomello merged it into the master codebase. I tested it on my local Arlo Pro setup and itās working beautifully.
Now itās just a matter of updating Home Assistant to use this new functionality. Weāre gettin closer!
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