Netgear Arlo Pro video security cameras are a great option for home security. They’re easy to set up and use, and they offer a variety of features that make them perfect for monitoring your home. One of the best features of these cameras is the ability to record video. You can store the recordings on a USB drive or on your computer, and you can access them anytime, anywhere. To record video from your Netgear Arlo Pro security camera, follow these steps:

  1. Connect the camera to your computer using an Ethernet cable. This will allow you to view and control the camera from your computer.
  2. Open a command prompt window and type netstat -a . This will show you all of the network connections in your system. You’ll see an entry for “Netgear Arlo Pro” under “Network connections.”
  3. Type ipconfig /all . This will show you all of the network adapters in your system. You’ll see an entry for “Netgear Arlo Pro” under “Adapter connections.”
  4. Type ipconfig /all again and you’ll see an entry for “Netgear Arlo Pro” under “Interface connections.” The interface name should be something like eth0 . If it isn’t, try changing it to something like wlp2s0 .
  5. Type ifconfig arlopro eth0 in a command prompt window and you’ll see that it has been changed to point to the new interface name (eth0 ). Now type netstat -a again to view all of the network traffic on this interface (eth0 ). You should now see videos being recorded on this interface!

Netgear’s Arlo Pro camera system saves all recorded video to the cloud, but if you want local copies of those same recordings, here’s how to connect an external USB drive to your Arlo Pro system.

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Keep in mind, that this new method for recording videos won’t stop the videos from saving to the cloud. Instead, connecting an external drive for local storage is merely a backup method, as the videos will save to both formats. However, if your internet connection goes out, videos will continue to save to your local storage, since the cloud will be unavailable at that point. So it’s definitely something you should set up on your Arlo Pro system.

To get started, you’ll first need a USB storage device, like a flash drive or an external hard drive. Since the Arlo Pro system relies on the FAT32 formatting system, the max storage size is 2TB. So if you have a 4TB external drive, it will only use 2TB of the space.

When ready, plug your USB storage device into one of the USB ports on the back of the Arlo Pro Base Station. There are two USB ports and it doesn’t matter which one you use.

Next, open up the Arlo app on your smartphone and you may notice a small, red icon appear. This means that the USB storage device needs formatted before it can be used. Tap on it to do so.

Tap on “Format” to confirm.

Once formatted, the device will automatically begin accepting recordings, and there’s nothing you have to do further to set it all up. However, there are some settings that you can mess with if you’d like. To access them, tap on the “Settings” tab in the bottom-right corner of the screen.

Select “My Devices” at the top.

Select your Arlo Pro Base Station.

Tap on “Local Storage”.

Toggling “USB Device Recording” will enable or disable the Arlo Pro system from saving recorded video to your USB storage device. “Automatic Overwrite” dictates whether or not new video recordings will overwrite old ones when the storage device gets full.

On this same screen, you can access the USB storage device and safely eject it if you ever want to remove it. Simply tap on the arrow to the right of the USB drive.

On the next screen, tap on “Safely Eject USB Device”.