Arlo

The arlo implementation allows you to integrate your Arlo devices in Home Assistant.

There is currently support for the following device types within Home Assistant:

• Alarm
• Camera
• Sensor

Configuration

To enable device linked in your Arlo account, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
arlo:
  username: YOUR_USERNAME
  password: YOUR_PASSWORD

It is recommended to create a dedicated user on Arlo website to be used within Home Assistant and then share your Arlo cameras.

Finish its configuration by visiting the Arlo sensor page or Arlo camera page or Arlo control panel page. Arlo also has a service call arlo.update that can be manually called to force an update prior to the regular scheduled interval.

The Arlo integration also provides a camera service to enable/disable the motion detection sensor. The example below enables the motion detection every time the Home Assistant service starts.

#automation.yaml
- alias: "Enable Arlo upon HA start'"
  initial_state: "on"
  trigger:
    platform: homeassistant
    event: start
  action:
    service: camera.enable_motion_detection
    target:
      entity_id: camera.arlo_frontdoor

Alarm

Configuration

Once you have enabled the Arlo component, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
alarm_control_panel:
  - platform: arlo

Examples

These examples are based on an Arlo base station named my_arlo_base_station. Replace this with the name of your base station’s entity_id.

Arming the Arlo Base Station when leaving.

- id: arm_arlo_when_leaving
  alias: "Arm Arlo cameras when leaving"
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: group.family
    from: home
    to: not_home
  action:
    service: alarm_control_panel.alarm_arm_away
    target:
      entity_id: alarm_control_panel.my_arlo_base_station

Setting Arlo to a custom mode (mapped to home_mode_name in configuration.yaml) when arriving.

- id: disarm_arlo_when_arriving
  alias: "Set Arlo cameras to Home mode when arriving"
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: group.family
    from: not_home
    to: home
  action:
    service: alarm_control_panel.alarm_arm_home
    target:
      entity_id: alarm_control_panel.my_arlo_base_station

You can also completely disarm the Arlo base station by calling the alarm_control_panel.alarm_disarm service, and trigger the alarm by calling the alarm_control_panel.alarm_trigger service.

More examples and configuration options can be found on the Manual Alarm Control page.

Camera

This integration is not yet able to live stream from your Arlo camera, but it will be able to playback the last video capture.

Configuration

Once you have enabled the Arlo component, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
camera:
  - platform: arlo
    ffmpeg_arguments: "-pred 1 -q:v 2"

Note: To be able to playback the last capture, it is required to install the ffmpeg component. Make sure to follow the steps mentioned at FFmpeg documentation.

Sensor

To get your Arlo sensors working within Home Assistant, please follow the instructions for the general Arlo component.

This platform does not support Arlo Q.

Configuration

Once you have enabled the Arlo component, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
sensor:
  - platform: arlo
    monitored_conditions:
      - captured_today
      - last_capture
      - total_cameras
      - battery_level
      - signal_strength

Additionally, for Arlo Baby cameras that have additional sensors, you can add them to the monitored_conditions collection:

# Additional sensors available for Arlo Baby cameras
sensor:
  - platform: arlo
    monitored_conditions:
      # ...
      - temperature
      - humidity
      - air_quality

If no monitored_conditions are specified, all of above will be enabled by default.