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Camera Motion Detection

The privacy shutter is supposed to be closed in Home mode. But I'm getting motion alerts from the camera and video recordings. Why?

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Hi jeremyblm,

Right, the camera should be following the shutter setting, and should not be triggering recordings while the shutter is closed. Are you seeing a pattern of when the Motion alerts are happening? For example, if you're seeing them after every time you disarm the system, that would be normal.

- Johnny M.
SimpliSafe Home Security

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Yes, it gets triggered when I disarm the system. How can I turn that off?

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@jeremyblm you can set the privacy guard position for "off", "home" and "away" modes in the settings area in the phone app or in the dashboard on the website.  I have mine on open for all three, as the doorbell and 3 simpliscams are all on the fist floor, all bedrooms on the 2nd.   Note that the settings can be different for each camera.

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jeremyblm,

Recordings whenever your system is disarmed is unfortunately a core function, and currently cannot be configured. The shutter setting is specifically for motion events while the system is already in a given mode.
But there will also still be recordings when there's system activity - like when there's a disarm, a power outage, or an actual alarm event.

- Johnny M.
SimpliSafe Home Security
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