Thanks for all these suggestions. I'll relay them to our dev team. I do have some insight as to why some features are set up the way they are:
A big part of what we do revolves around a closed system, so we can control as much of it as possible and keep it all locked down. So we also take a lot of caution with opening up for third parties to take over even some functions.
For Multi-Factor Authentication, our security team specifically decided against email as an option, though other options are being considered. One thing you might not know is that you're actually able to set multiple phone numbers for MFA by SMS. From your boss's phone, you can navigate in the app to Menu > Manage Account > Multi-Factor Authentication, and add more contacts.
When logging in, you'll be able to choose which phone number should get the confirmation code.
Finally, in terms of which channel your notifications go to; it doesn't look like it from the user end, but camera notifications actually go through a totally different system than the core alarm (i.e. alerts from the Base Station). So that's why, at least for now, Camera notifications are only available through the SimpliSafe app via Push Notification.
Our dev team is of course always constantly working on improvements to the system, and user feedback like this really helps.
- Davey D. Community Development Manager
SimpliSafe Home Security
is there a way for you guys to ensure a more speedy delivery of emails then if you wont open up the consideration for a third party smtp relay? Most notifications I noticed are sent within 1-5 minutes, but the 15 minute delayed email when I was testing had me a little worried about consistency.
I'll look into adding multiple phones for the 2FA bypass for now so thanks for that insight.
is there a way for you guys to ensure a more speedy delivery of emails then
For what it's worth, I have SMS, email and push enabled for my alerts and they're all slower than I'd like. I'm not saying this to mean we should put up with this but rather to say I don't think it's just email. I also think it's gotten worse in the last month or so specifically and this includes bigger delays in stuff showing up on my timeline as well. I suspect there are bigger issues at SimpliSafe at the moment.
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Thanks for all these suggestions. I'll relay them to our dev team. I do have some insight as to why some features are set up the way they are:
A big part of what we do revolves around a closed system, so we can control as much of it as possible and keep it all locked down. So we also take a lot of caution with opening up for third parties to take over even some functions.
For Multi-Factor Authentication, our security team specifically decided against email as an option, though other options are being considered. One thing you might not know is that you're actually able to set multiple phone numbers for MFA by SMS. From your boss's phone, you can navigate in the app to Menu > Manage Account > Multi-Factor Authentication, and add more contacts.
When logging in, you'll be able to choose which phone number should get the confirmation code.
Finally, in terms of which channel your notifications go to; it doesn't look like it from the user end, but camera notifications actually go through a totally different system than the core alarm (i.e. alerts from the Base Station). So that's why, at least for now, Camera notifications are only available through the SimpliSafe app via Push Notification.
Our dev team is of course always constantly working on improvements to the system, and user feedback like this really helps.
- Davey D.
Community Development Manager
SimpliSafe Home Security
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kylem
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I'll look into adding multiple phones for the 2FA bypass for now so thanks for that insight.
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