To Launch Bluestacks You May Either Change Your Windows Settings

[Marybelle Bailey]

Thereis a viedo on YouTube on using the ASIAir on Windows11 machines without an emmulator like BlueStacks. I've been able to get to the final step but can't open the .exe command on the final step. The video is; =OMJ0o9icTQg&t=630s

When I do the adb.exe it states "No devices/emulators found".

If you could help that would be great. I had no problem running BlueStacks on my old PC using Win10 pro. This is a new machine and I feel there is something simple to apply. It just takes forever to get BlueStacks to open and get to ASIAir app.

So if I plan on connecting to the ASIAIR Wi-Fi using my Windows 11 laptop - I first do either 1. or 2. above. After BlueStacks 5 has launched - I then change my laptop connection over to the ASIAIR Wi-Fi and then launch the ASIAIR App. It's strange but it works.

Note: if you have already followed the steps in the video you may not need repeat any of the steps - however sometimes completely uninstalling and removing everything and starting from scratch can help resolve issues.

The first step - as shown in the video - is to enable virtualization in your BIOS/UEFI settings for your computer. This is specific to your computer hardware so you'll need to look up how to do this for your hardware. It's not difficult to do - but it is important to get it right and do this step first.

The second step is to enable virtualization in Windows 11 itself. To do this, tap on the "Windows" key on your keyboard, start typing Turn Windows Features on or off, open the program with that name, then scroll through the list and enable Hyper V, Virtual Machine Platform, Windows Hypervisor Platform, and Windows Subsystem for Linux (or whichever ones are available for you). Restart your computer.

I then went to this website - -to-run-android-apps-on-windows-11-3048569/ - and followed the steps under "How to run Android apps on Windows 11 unofficially" in order to install Windows Subsystem for Android via Powershell (rather than via the Store App - my choice but you could do either way).

I then went to this website - -to-use-adb-android-3260397/ - and followed the steps under "How to set up ADB on a computer: Windows, macOS, and Linux". Just that section. I recommend putting the "platform-tools" folder under C:\Temp in your computer (so it would be C:\Temp\platform-tools).

Now you want to start up Windows Subsystem for Android app in Windows 11, go to Advanced Settings, then enable Developer Mode. Then go to the System menu and click on the Files shortcut icon on the right to get the subsystem running. Now go back to Advanced Settings and under the heading Developer Mode double check the IP address has been set to 127.0.0.1:58526. If it is different - that's fine - just make a note of what it is.

Here's where you will now use ADB to install the ASIAIR APK file in order to run the ASIAIR App natively on your Windows 11 machine. Refer to the attached image to see what I had to do. You can see that, for me, I needed to type things in a particular way.

Also note - while it may seem like it isn't doing anything - you'll need to wait a few minutes while does the "Performing Streamed Install" before it says "Success". You can then exit/close the Powershell window.

After evaluating the above steps I decided to just check what I had done right and wrong. I did miss a step about enabling Windows for LInux. and I didn't check my typing three times before I hit return. When I got to the last step and I saw it running I knew I had it. So much thanks to Corsair for helping me with this issue. Maybe Corsair should do a YouTube video on this subject. The beginning video is dated and needs additional information. Thanks and clear skies.

Has anyone loaded an Android Emulator onto their desktop PC in order to run the Arlo App? Since the videos will not play on a PC with any web browser that I have found the only way to play them on a PC is to download them and use VLC Media Player or similar which is additional, completely unnecessary in my opinion, steps and it's starting to get old. Since Arlo/Netgear seems to have no interest in fixing the issue I can either buy a Mac to view videos on my desktop or try to find another solution. The videos play just fine on the Android smart phone so I was wondering if the Android app will work the same on my PC as it does on my phone or if the HEVC video issue will cause the same problem when using the emulator.

I went ahead and tried this and it works. It works very well, in fact. BlueStacks loads fine although it takes almost a minute to do it (so I just leave it loaded) and the Arlo mobile app works on my PC just like on my phone. Video playback is not 100% because it's a bit jumpy at times but the point is that I can buzz through the videos quickly on a big monitor, I don't have to download them and all the information is still on them; date, time, camera name, etc. In my opinion there are MANY advantages to doing it this way over downloading the videos to watch on VLC media player and one of the big items is the time stamp remains on the video using the Android Emulator.

Arlo was apparently made for a smart phone so the Android Emulator works better than the Arlo website on the PC for everything other than when it comes to deleting a large number of videos; can only delete them one at a time.

Another advantage is that I can leave the Arlo app open on my computer all day and all night and it never times out and the motion notifications from the cameras pop up in a little window at the lower right of my computer monitor whether the Arlo app is on top or not. I can't take a photo of the videos that I'm watching but I can take a screen shot and paste it into Word or similar software.

You say Safari doesn't support HEVC video but, although I don't have first hand knowledge, everything I read says Safari DOES support HEVC. This information has been linked to from several other users.

Also, I don't know about Mac but I have seen a woman using an iPad to look at the videos from her monitors at home so maybe a Mac can't play the videos but I know for a fact that an iPad can. That was the deciding factor for me in buying the Arlo Pro 3 system was watching her on her iPad. I'm not sure I would have gone with the Arlo if I had known all the hoops I'd have to jump through to play the videos on my PC. Actually I can revise that; I would NOT have purchased Arlo if I had known I couldn't play the videos on my PC unless I downloaded them and lost the time stamp, etc. It's a pain. The woman with the iPad said it all works fine on her Mac but again I have no first hand knowledge so I'm just assuming she was telling me the truth.

Running the Arlo app on my PC using the BlueStacks Android Emulator is not perfect but it works very well, has many advantages to using the Arlo website and the videos can be watched directly on the app without downloading. For now this is the best fix that I have found for watching the videos without jumping through a bunch of hoops.

You say you can't view them on your tablet but you can on the desktop. What computer and software are you running? Also, what tablet are you using and what is "pan and zoom" that you are using to view the videos.

I don't have a Mac though, so I can't test Safari on that platform. I did just check it on an iPad Pro, and it does work there. So it is quite possible that it will work there (at least on Macs with hardware HEVC support).

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