---
name: "pyaarlo"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "python3-pyaarlo"
version: "0.8.0.15-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/pyaarlo"
---

# pyaarlo(1)

List devices, perform simple actions and anonymize/encrypt logs for debugging

## NAME

pyaarlo - List devices, perform simple actions and anonymize/encrypt logs for debugging

## SYNOPSIS

**pyaarlo \[OPTIONS\] COMMAND \[ARGS\]...**

## DESCRIPTION

pyaarlo is a Python module to manage Aarlo cameras. The **pyaarlo** executable performs simple actions.

This manual page is for the **pyaarlo** executable. See the section "SEE ALSO" for more documentation.

### COMMANDS

Help specific to each command is available by executing **pyaarlo COMMAND --help**.

- **anonymize**

  Anonymize and encrypt logs for debugging purposes. For example:

-

  cat output-file \| pyaarlo -u username -p password anonymize

- **camera**

  Start or stop the camera, or take thumbnails. Requires an argument from {start-stream\|stop-stream\|last-thumbnail}. For example:

-

  pyaarlo -u username -p password camera last-thumbnail

- **decrypt**

  Decrypt from stdin. For example:

-

  cat encrypted \| pyaarlo decrypt

- **dump**

  Print out everything that was returned from Arlo about the devices in the system. For example:

-

  pyaarlo dump all

- **encrypt**

  Encrypt from stdin. For example:

-

  cat output-file \| pyaarlo encrypt

- **list**

  Requires an argument from {all\|cameras\|bases\|lights\|doorbells}. For example:

-

  pyaarlo -u username -p password list all

### OPTIONS

- **-u, --username TEXT**

  Aarlo username.

- **-p, --password TEXT**

  Aarlo password.

- **-a, --anonymize / --no-anonymize**

  Anonymize ids.

- **-c, --compact / --no-compact**

  Minimize lists.

- **-e, --encrypt / --no-encrypt**

  Where possible, encrypt output.

- **-k, --public-key TEXT**

  Public key for encryption.

- **-K, --private-key TEXT**

  Private key for decryption.

- **-P, --pass-phrase TEXT**

  Pass phrase for private key.

- **-s, --storage-dir TEXT**.

  Where to store Aarlo state and packet dump \[default: (current dir)\]

- **-w, --wait / --no-wait**.

  Wait for all information to arrive on start-up.

- **-v, --verbose**.

  More vebose with multiple -v.

- **--help**.

  Show help message and exit.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Carles Pina i Estany \<carles@pina.cat\> for the **Debian** system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

## SEE ALSO

See Pyaarlo documentation in \<https://pyaarlo.readthedocs.io/en/latest/\> or available locally in \</usr/share/doc/python3-pyaarlo/README.md.gz\>, \</usr/share/doc/python3-pyaarlo/html/\> and \</usr/share/doc/python3-pyaarlo/examples/\>