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Outdoor Camara's continue recording when Alarm if off.
Indoor camaras can be set to sense motion and record when the system is set to home or away, and not sense motion or record when the system is off. It doesn't appear this can be done with the outdoor camara's. Very annoying that this feature is not available. When kids play in the yard or we're doing yard work the outdoor camara's are constantly recording and draining the battery, so one has to disable all the outdoor camara's and then remember to enable when we put the alarm on at night or when we leave the house. This is poor design and a safety issue as not everyone in the family uses the app to arm the system, and we generally set the alarm from the keypad at night.
PLEASE FIX THIS!! We should be able to arm our home security and disarm our home security in one step without having to enable and disable our outdoor camara's throughout the day.
And just to note, I bought 2 RING Camara's that seem to perform this function fine. Only problem is I don't use their monitoring. May considering changing over to Ring if SimpliSafe can't fix this issue.
Anybody else have this issue or figured out a workaround?
lance843
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I just turn the outdoor cameras off if I'm going to be outside for a long period of time as I want the outdoor cameras to be ready and on at all times. The indoor cameras are a different story as I'm home I want them off and they are but I agree maybe it would be a good idea to have this as a feature to add for someone like you who would like them to be off when you turn the system off but for me it's not a problem as I got the solar panels to keep them charging and if we are outside for awhile I just go in app and turn them off
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davey_d
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Hi @nfiore ,
Thank you for your suggestion. Yes, currently, the Outdoor Camera is designed to be active at all times. But we do have a pending request to tie the camera to the system's armed state, just like the Indoor Camera. If the feature is implemented, we'll update the thread here.
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nfiore
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Hi Davey, any update on this requested fix? Since this seems to be a fairly popular request for over a year now, might the developers give their user community an indication whether this is on the schedule at some point for update, or if they're just not interested?
Perhaps you can my merge post with the those of the same topic in the Thread you note above.
Thanks much,
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