I admit, I haven’t played with it enough to see if I can use the base station siren to fire if say my front door sensor is opened while the cameras are armed. I use the cameras as motion sensors to fire certain automations and pistons I’ve setup. Since I’ve added my Arlo system (cameras and base station) to Smartthings the standard way (in addition to ArloPilot), all three cameras as well as the base station show up as things. Zero recording delay this way, and I’ve read that when using Smartthings to manage Arlo cameras there can be a significant lag from motion detection to actual recording. I then use the native Arlo app to view any recordings. I currently use ArloPilot to manage my cameras in Smartthings by arming/disarming my cameras based on Smartthings mode. The issue with using the Arlo siren in conjunction with Smartthings is the cloud to cloud delay. This could be nice so you can have keypads at remote entry points away from the alarm. Lock Manager will allow you to use Keypads to control the alarm. It actually works with SHM so that may be something you would want even if you don’t change to the panel I actually call a routine everynight to arm my alarm and this is the app that enables it.Īrlopilot would allow you to integration actions based on the alarm status. There are many things it does one of the most important is provide a method for other apps to interact with the alarm status. There are a few smarttapps that can further expand how the ADT integration works with the Smartthings side.ĪDT Tools would expand your ability to trigger actions based on the alarm activity. You also get the option for professional monitoring from ADT if you want it. Think Entry, Exit Delays and a real keypad among others. The ADT Panel is first an alarm system with most if not all of the functions you would expect from an alarm. SHM kind of does it, but has some significant limitations that often require some very interesting work around to make work without allot of false alerts. They are pretty cheap right now, and has steep discounts on dual branded sensors at Best buy at the moment, And is a true alarm system. If security is something you want to really be concerned about you may want to look at swapping out the smartthings hub with a ADT Smartthings Panel. The Zooz has also been brought up many times as well. I have heard good things about the Dome siren. There are several others that are good as well. You should be able to trigger that as a additional one. Could it be possible that Arlopilot isn’t changeing a mode so it isn’t where you think it should be to sound the siren. I would have loved to have bought a newer camera system but your integrations are extremely terrible past the pro 2.Do you feel the Arlo siren is not reliable. Is this going to be fixed? I would like to use the siren. I am pretty sure that the integration for this base station are somehow missing the siren implementation. I have changed the siren name to be different than the base station, I have reset the station, disabled and re-enabled the integrations, and nothing changes. The siren can not be found in Alexa or SmartThings so I can't really use it, which really infuriates me because that is one reason why I bought this system, the integrations with my smart home. I saw that there was a similar issue with SmartThings not detecting the base station at all and not working correctly but everything in my setup is working except the siren. The siren device is never found when searching for devices in either Alexa or SmartThings. The base station has firmware version 1.16.3.2_3459_6cd3d19, the newest available to me currently. The Arlo Pro 2 base station VMB4500 siren is not recognized by either Alexa or SmartThings.
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