Years later and this very basic feature still isn't available. WHY?!

Why even offer security cameras if I can't go back and search easily for a particular event on a particular day? I was recently asked for footage by the police after a neighbor was broken into, but the request didnt' come until nearly 20 days after the incident (neighbors were trying to rent the house and weren't actively living there). Holy cow, it took me FOREVER on the iPhone app to get to the day in question - just had to keep scrolling and scrolling! There is no functionality on the website to search archived footage (again, why?!), and the app just allows you to select the camera and then scroll. I guess it's time to invest in an actual security camera system that doesn't include the SimpliSafe monthly fees. 

@simplisafe_admin​ PLEASE MAKE THIS A FEATURE! It honestly is surprising that it's not. At least make it like the phone app where you can view timelines for specific cameras instead of all cameras on one timeline. 

100% agree! Been wondering that myself for a long time. My doorbell captures the most recordings, its hard to find my driveway camera recordings buried in the timeline, filtering by camera would be so darn convenient. 

Hello @eliseat227, 

Thank you for this idea! We'll send this over to our to our devs for their consideration.

@eliseat227​ I have the same issue and request. I noticed that Nest has the feature we are asking for. I'm considering switching just because of this one major pain point. Nest also recognizes faces, so I can filter by different people. There could be 1,000 clips but only 5 different people seen. Then I can name the people I identify and then when an unfamiliar face is seen, I can filter by that and go straight to the video or set to get alerts on unfamiliar faces. I can filter by camera. Pretty handy.  I have an old friend that thinks someone breaks into their house and moves their stuff around or steals it. We put in several cameras. So far, it is just my friend moving her stuff and forgetting but when she says 'somebody broke in and moved my purse this morning.' With the Nest cams, I can filter by the camera where the purse was and find when it was moved a lot faster and show my friend that it was actually her moving her purse. She insists the Nest system has been hacked by the purpetrator and they delete the videos @ that's why we have never seen them. So I put in these simplisafe cams. It's a lot more difficult and time consuming to find events and show my friend when I can't filter by the camera. I put 5 simplisafe cams so there is absolutely no way someone could get into the house without being seen. There are probably 1,000 videos a day or her and the dog walking around the house. The Nest system can also identify the dog and can be configured to not save recordings of the dog walking around in order to further declutter the haystack. When I ordered the simplisafe equipment, I was under the impression there was only a monthly fee if I paid for them to monitor it. That is not true. I feel misled. If you don't pay a monthly fee, you can't recall videos of motion events, only live views from the cameras are visible. I feel misled. 

This post is an excellent suggestion and feature I would like to see implemented, primarily because I refer to the timeline often (in conjunction with my non-SimpliSafe security cameras).

(As a personal side note, I expect these upgrades and features with monitoring fee increases – at a minimum. SimpliSafe should not be raising such prices without expanding the system's usability. These are not hardware upgrades; your company can accomplish them. Maybe I would stay if there were significant implementations of feature requests I could use and others have asked for for years. My search continues)

@Mikepedia​ Your request sounded similar to this thread, so I merged it here. We do have an open ticket for this request with our devs. We'll bubble this back up to them!

They must have terrible developers, or these would have been completed by now.  Unacceptable!