Cam v4 cooldown for notifications

[mathyoo]

I have a Cam v-4 with Cam Unlimited. When a car or person triggers a notification, I keep getting notifications every couple seconds as long as someone or some thing is moving. I’ve looked through the app and through this forum but I cannot find a way to set a cooldown for notifications anywhere. Is this even possible?

[habib]

Unfortunately it is not. That is a shortcoming of Cam Plus/Unlimited, it will bombard you with notifications as long as there is movement. It drives me crazy too.

[Crease]

@mathyoo

Is this even possible?

I don’t think it is, at least not natively. (Something like this might be possible using a third-party notification interceptor app on Android, but I haven’t explored that particular behavior, and I’m not aware of any options for doing this on iOS.) This kind of thing has been requested in the Wishlist, though:

Customize Notifications/Alert Frequency (Longer cool down period)

Hello, can an alarm frequency be added to the camera and software so that you can control the frequency of alerts when there is constant motion or sound for a time period. An example is if there is activity that triggers and alert and the activity continues for more than the 5 minute “cool down” period of the camera then another alert will not be sent until the this frequency period is met, such as do not send another alert until 15, 20, 30 minutes. Most common are unscheduled activities that tr…

If interested, you can visit that topic, Vote above the initial post, and then share your ideas and use cases in the comments to show your support for that request.