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Self-hosted Arlo

Arlo cameras running without Arlo's cloud, on my own base station and Home Assistant.

5 posts Aug 18, 2026 → Aug 20, 2026 Repository

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    · 34 minread

    Replacing the Arlo Base Station with a Netgear Orbi Router

    How I replaced the proprietary Arlo base station with a telnet-rooted Netgear Orbi RBR760 mesh router so my cameras could use the existing mesh WiFi, eliminating dead spots and Arlo subscription fees.

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    · 24 minread

    Self-Hosting Arlo on Your Own Server: Stack, Patches and Lessons Learned

    How to self-host the arlo-cam-api Arlo basestation emulator: Docker stack with on-demand RTSP via MediaMTX, a custom arlo-snapshot Flask sidecar, and the three patches I contributed upstream to fix a Flask startup bug, add a keepalive …

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    · 33 minread

    Integrating Your Self-Hosted Arlo Stack with Home Assistant: Sensors, Automations and the Lovelace Dashboard

    How to wire your self-hosted Arlo basestation emulator (arlo-cam-api + arlo-snapshot + mediamtx) into Home Assistant using REST sensors, template sensors, binary_sensors, automations, input_booleans and a Lovelace Cameras dashboard — all …

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    · 13 minread

    Fixing Arlo Camera Battery Life at the WiFi Layer

    The missing WiFi-layer fix: raising the guest WiFi inactivity timeout and DHCP lease on a Netgear Orbi RBR760 so VMC4040P cameras stop re-associating every 30 minutes and drain their batteries overnight.

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    · 17 minread

    Arlo Base Station Deep Dive: Battery Drain, Sniffed Data, and Router Config

    A bonus deep-dive into the Arlo base station: raw battery drain measurements across armed/disarmed cameras, sniffed wire data showing how the base station keeps cameras asleep, and the RBR760 beacon interval limitation that prevents full …