Sharing control needs to be much more granular to be useful. A shared doorbell needs to have selective ring control for the sharer and the sharee. There are only certian time I want to hear a remote doorbell ringing.
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My issue is my dad shares his outdoor v4 camera with me, but his motion settings are blowing up my phone. I don’t want to disable all my notifs for the app cause then I want get the notifications for my doorbell cam when someone rings my doorbell. There should be an option to turn off notifications in the app for shared cameras from other users, so you won’t miss the important devices on your account. This seems like an essential feature, to be able to customize notifications.
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Yes this is a much needed feature. This is how I would summarize it:
Set device notification settings per shared with user. Not global notification settings for all shared users, let users individually decide if they get notifications or not for devices shared with them.
Detection zones and tagging notifications being set by exclusively the device owner is okay, but a user specific toggle to set if they receive or not the notifications even if the device owner does not receive notifications is critical to retain the users interest for interacting with only cameras which they care for notifications
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This is incredibly inconvenient. I’m part of another person’s Wyze Home and constantly get notifications from their devices, even though I only want alerts from my own camera. It’s frustrating that Wyze still hasn’t fixed this. There should be a simple way to toggle notifications per shared device or at least per Home.
Why is this still not a feature after so many user requests?
If you scroll up a bit you’ll see @carverofchoice’s info on on 3rd party “notification manager” apps which will solve this for you, they come in handy for your own stuff too. Basically expanding your phone’s (and the apps on it) notifications to be much more granular and controllable.
Yes, the shared cams feature is severely lacking in features and it should be simple enough to turn off notifications for cams you don’t want, but best I can tell the notification setting is in the cam itself and the app just “reads” that setting. If you were able to turn it off, it would turn it off for your friends too. There is actually a way to do it with an automation which will disable it for the owner of the cam as well which is another reason I don’t like the shared cams feature at all.
But look at the 3rd party solutions, they’re actually very flexible.
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Appreciate the call out, I saw the third party option but I don’t want to install another app to solve for this. I just want to send more signals that this is still a needed feature within wyze.
I’m considering switching to competitor options since at this point in time cameras are commodities and the software is what makes or breaks the experience.
No third-party option for iOS users only android. This is something Wyze could easily fix and should. Changing companies.
good luck with this. This has been an issue for many years and Wyze doesn’t want to provide this feature. The solution is to move away from Wyze. I had 10 devices. this limit forced me to throw them away.
Understood, I don’t like installing extra apps either, though these ones are very useful for stuff beyond Wyze too.
Don’t want notifications for work emails unless it is from your boss? Done. Can think of many other use cases too.
I’d say the 2 biggest asks have been to improve guest accounts (notifications and SD card access particularly) and add more actions to automations. Both were acknowledged by Wyze in here long ago, but it seems there is 0 focus on improving existing things now, possibly coincided with some headcount reduction/cost cutting. Once I found the bug with guest accounts being able to create conflicting automations that changed settings on my cams, I stopped even considering offering to share them with others. I’d love to see both of those things addressed, but maybe age has taught me to recognize the signs of “not gonna happen”.
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I have a whole bunch of cameras from this company as well, and will no longer be buying from them given that there are a whole lot of problems that are very old that they don’t seem to be improving upon. One of those is the notification from shared cameras, which overwhelms everything on my phone, and on my personal cameras, which are much lower and managed by me.
That this problem is eight years old at least this thread alone is since 2021 and there seems to be no response to any of the issues behind this lack of control.
This is one of many reasons why this company seems to be dying.
This is so frustrating and seems like it should be an easy fix. The device owner should have control of notificationson the device not the camera owner.
I agree, and it’s a point I’ve made in the Wishlist topic that others have linked above:
If you haven’t already done so, then you can show your support for that one by visiting it, clicking or tapping the Vote button above the initial post, and sharing your ideas and use cases in the comments. I haven’t seen any status updates on that particular request recently, but I keep going back to what one of the cofounders wrote earlier this year on the subject:
Hopefully we’ll see some progress at some point. 
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