I am at my wits end. This is such a basic camera feature but it seems to be completely missing from the app and I cannot believe Simplisafe have omitted such a glaring base-level thing. I highly regret this Simplisafe system based on this and another very minor basic thing.

I want the camera on my Simplisafe system to stop alerting me to motion through the app. I want the motion detection to remain active on the camera to record events, but not alert me. There are THREE levels this could be done: Via the camera settings, via the Simplisafe app settings, or via my phone notification settings. None of these have a solution. (I'm on Android)

There are no settings in the motion detection settings of the camera to control notifications. - EDIT: There are notification settings in the camera which are a bit hidden as pointed out by a user below. Unfortunately they don't help me in this case.

There are no settings in the app itself to change notifications about events or devices on my phone.

There are no settings in the Android's app settings specifically about cameras (It has the option to enable/disable Doorbells, why not cameras?)

Here is some extra context which will complicate matters, but that information above is the basics that should be addressed.

I have set my elderly, living alone, disabled neighbor lady up with a Simplisafe system. I have a Simplisafe system for my own home, but it has never had a camera attached, so I didn't know this problem existed.

She asked me to act as a secondary administrator on her system - so I can be alerted to alarms and all that. My existing Simplisafe account is linked to her system. All good. But now I get her damn camera's alerts dozens of times a day. She appreciates them and wants them to be enabled, so turning them off at the camera would not be wise. I want to be able to go into my Simplisafe app and say "Don't alert MY ACCOUNT to this camera's events." Even better, let me disable camera events in the Android settings of the app. There is already a specific Notifications category protocol for that build into every Android app but the app developer (Simplisafe) needs to use it properly.

Thank you for listening to my rant.

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