Arlo cameras are known for their captivating security features and Home assistant is popular open-source software that automates everything in your house with IoT devices. If you want to add Arlo camera to Home Assistant, this blog will help you a lot. Keep reading.
Steps to Add Arlo Camera to Home Assistant
1. Install HACS in Home Assistant Setup
At first, you need to install HACS (Home Assistance Community Store) in your Home Assistant setup. For this, you have to navigate to Settings in Home Assistant Server and select Add-Ons.
- Click Add-On Store.
- Search for Terminal & SSH add-on.
- Install the Terminal & SSH add-on from the displayed results and click Start.
- Select Open Web GUI.
- Enter the following command in the terminal window:
- cd/config
- Wget -0 – https://get.hacs.xyz | bash –
- HACS will get downloaded in the config directory.
- Restart the Home Assistant Server from Developer tools.
- Select Settings > Devices & Services > Add Integration.
- Find HACS and click Submit.
- Click the displayed URL and sign in to GitHub account.
- Enter the displayed code in the next window.
- Click Authorize HACS and click Submit on Home Assistant Server.
- Select Finish on the Success screen.
2. Add and Explore Repositories
The next step is to make HACS ready for integration with the Arlo Camera. Once HACS get installed on Home Assistant, do the following:
- Navigate to HACS.
- Select Integrations.
- Click Add and Explore Repositories.
- Search Arlo.
- Install the Arlo Camera Support Integration.
- The spelling should be “aarlo”.
- Restart the Home Assistant.
3. Configure Arlo Camera with Home Assistant
Now, you need to add the important configuration to integrate the Arlo Camera with Home Assistant. Here’s what you are supposed to do:
- Add the necessary configuration for Arlo in the configuration.yaml file.
- Include the host i.e. my.arlo.com and Arlo account login username and password.
- You can also create a separate Arlo account for Home assistant and allow it to access your cameras.
- If two-factor authentication is enabled, you should add necessary TFA lines in configuration.
- Enable sensor section so that the Arlo camera’s sensors for automation and UI will work.
- To save time, add the alarm panel section for setting up home and away mode.
4. Set Up Arlo Camera in Home Assistant
As soon as you restart the Home Assistant software, the cameras will appear as entities. You can verify their presence and add them using the following instructions:
- Go to Developer > Tools.
- Select States.
- Scroll down to the camera entities.
- If they appear as “arlo_lawn_camera”, the camera is successfully added to Home Assistant.
In this manner, you can add Arlo security camera to Home Assistant. Know that the Home Assistant software should be updated. Otherwise, the integration will fail. Also, perform Arlo firmware update before you attempt to add the camera to the Home Assistant. Remember, Arlo account details are case-sensitive. Use them carefully and note them down somewhere for future use.
The Final Words
The integration of Arlo security cameras with Home Assistant software is a great initiative to improve home security. We are expecting that with the help of the steps given in this post, you will be able to add Arlo camera to Home Assistant.