How To Add Another Camera To Arlo

All Arlo video recordings are stored to the cloud, but y'all can connect a USB device to the Arlo Pro base station and utilize the USB device every bit a second location to store Arlo Wire-Free and Arlo Pro Wire-Gratuitous recordings locally. Local storage to a USB device cannot be used on its ain equally a substitute for deject recording.

But automatically triggered recordings are saved locally to the connected USB device. Transmission recordings are merely saved to the cloud.

If you connect a USB device, the photographic camera records to both the deject and the USB device. If the camera and base station are powered on, but your Internet connection goes down, the camera continues to record to the USB device.

The Arlo app notifies you if the USB device is low on storage infinite or is full. If you lot select automatic overwrite, the oldest recordings are automatically deleted when available storage on the USB device is beneath xx%. Unrelated files that are not in the Arlo folder are not deleted past automatic overwrite.

Required hardware:

An Arlo Pro base of operations station
A USB flash drive or external hard drive with at least 100-200 MB of bachelor infinite. If you are using all-time quality video settings, one hr of recordings is approximately 180 MB. If yous accept several Arlo cameras, take cameras in loftier-traffic areas, or accept your cameras fix to record long video segments, yous might need more storage infinite.
Note: Network-attached storage (NAS) devices and drives with multiple partitions are not currently supported.

Do not use the Arlo Pro base of operations station to format storage devices with more than 2 TB of storage capacity. The base station formats storage devices using the FAT32 file organisation, which supports a maximum of two TB of storage space. The formatting process reduces the capacity of larger storage devices to a maxiumum of ii TB.

To set up local fill-in storage on an Arlo Pro base station:

Plug the USB device into one of the two USB ports on the dorsum of the Arlo Pro base station.
Launch the Arlo app or log in to your Arlo account at arlo.netgear.com.
Tap or clickSettings > My Devices.
Tap or click the Arlo Pro base of operations station into which you lot inserted the USB device.
Tap or clickLocal Storage.
If you encounter a dark-green circumvolve next toUSB Device 1and the status message Ready, skip to step 8.
Note: If you already named your USB Device using a calculator, the name displays instead of USB Device 1. If you insert a 2d unnamed USB device, it displays equally USB Device two.
If y'all see the message "Requires Formatting" side by side toUSB Device 1 orUSB Device 2, the USB device is not in the correct format (FAT32). Y'all must format the USB device before y'all tin use it for local storage.

Formatting the USB device erases all data from the device. If yous want to continue any files that are on the USB device, re-create those files to another location before y'all format the USB device. Do not employ the Arlo Pro base of operations station to format storage devices with more than than 2 TB of storage capacity. The formatting process reduces the capacity of larger storage devices to a maxiumum of 2 TB.

To delete all files on your USB device and format it for local video storage:
- Tap or click>adjacent to the USB device that you desire to format.
- Tap or clickFormat USB Device.
- Wait forUSB Device Status to alter from Formatting to Fix.
  Warning: Do not remove the USB device while it is formatting. The USB device might become permanently unusable.
If you do non want old videos to be deleted when your USB device is low on storage space, tap or click the slider next toAutomatic Overwriteto plough it off.
If automatic overwrite is turned off, the Arlo app notifies you lot when storage gets low so that you can enable local storage backup on a different USB device. If storage is completely full and automatic overwrite is turned off, videos are only recorded to the cloud until yous plough on automatic overwrite or enable a different USB device.