Arlo and IFTTT Each of these devices on their own work great, but when you set them up via IFTTT, it’s almost like watching magic happen in your own home. From a full smart alarm that works via a cool control panel on the wall to Philips Hue bulbs, Withings Home cameras, and an August Smart lock and August Doorbell camera. I now have a full smart home system in my home. It doesn’t all have to work online either: IFTTT now works with Arlo and other smart home devices to create action you can actually see in your home. So if you can set a trigger like ‘If I upload a photo to Instagram’ and follow it by a ‘then’ action like ‘Share that photo on Facebook.’ Recipes are based on channels, and each channel has its own triggers and actions you can set. The basic idea is that you can control your devices in unique ways through ‘recipes’ you create. That’s what you can do with Arlo just on it’s own, but now Netgear has signed up as a partner with IFTTT (If This Than That), you can do even more with your Arlo cameras. Yes, she probably shouldn’t have been flashing her light into my windows, but I was grateful to Arlo for alerting me to someone in my yard. She was actually looking for someone she was going to pick up and didn’t get the message that she wasn’t needed. Thankfully the person looking in my windows wasn’t trying to break in. When I told my husband that I was watching someone on Arlo, he got up and went outside. Although I was sure it had to have something to do with the party, I was still pretty scared while watching the cameras. Turns out the motion was a person with a flashlight that was looking inside my windows and doors. No sooner did I arm my Arlo cameras than they popped up with a notification that there was motion detected in the yard. The party ended at 10 pm and by midnight I had everything locked up and ready to go to sleep. Just this past week we had a party for one of our kids and I was thanking my lucky stars for Arlo. I’ve been using two cameras out in my yard since last fall and they are reliable, easy to use, and give me a view of the outside of my house and yard whenever I need one. When it comes to Netgear Arlo cameras, I’m a huge fan.
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