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SimpliBZ

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Sunday, August 13th, 2023 5:46 AM

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Feature Suggestion to quickly enable/disable motion detection on Outdoor Cameras

When I am out doing yardwork or just enjoying my backyard, I get constant alerts from my 4 outdoor cameras plus all the motion detection drains the camera batteries.  Thankfully, it is currently possible to disable and enable the motion sensors and notifications for each camera individually.  However, this is a bit of a chore when you have many cameras, worse when you are in a rush, and it is very easy to forget to re-enable them all and thus not be protected by the cameras until you remember to reenable them.   It would be great if it was possible to enable/disable motion detection all at once for all cameras, and even better if I was able to disable them temporarily for a set amount of time (perhaps even with some choice of time intervals), then have them re-enabled automatically when that time period is met, and receive a notification that they have been re-enabled.   Any chance this feature can be added to the backlog?

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Schedule motion detection on Outdoor Cameras

emily_s

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1 year ago

Hi @SimpliBZ, 

We do have a Snooze Notifications feature that sounds pretty similar to your idea! With Snooze Notifications enabled, you can temporarily pause motion notifications from your cameras for a set amount of time. Once that time is up, you will receive notifications again. You can learn more about this feature in this Help Center article.

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SimpliBZ

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Hi @emily_s,

Thanks for pointing out that feature!  I did not know about that, and gave it try.  It certainly does help to snooze notifications, but, unfortunately,  it still keeps the camera enabled and thus draining the battery, fills up the timeline, and has to be done for each camera after you receive a notification which requires a recent notification from each camera to still be in your notification history.   I wish that I could say that it solves more of the use case that I am describing above.

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emily_s

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@SimpliBZ​ I certainly understand where you're coming from! We have also submitted the suggestion to schedule the Outdoor Camera's motion detection to our dev team. This should also address the use case you mentioned. Once we get any news from our dev team, an update will be provided in this thread.

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SimpliBZ

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Thanks @emily_s!

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