Movement/Event not sending me a notification?

[steve4335]

Hi Amourless, welcome to the community!!!

There is not currently a way to turn off the 5 minute cool down, there is a wishlist item that you can vote for to address this though:

5 minute cooldown, A solution

The five minute cool-down is a very popular topic of concern for many posters, so I’ll skip the review. We understand this is to limit the cloud space usage so Wyze can continue to provide this service, but this gap in notices is problematic. Who has time to sit through five minutes of playback video to see if there is something or someone that came by after that last insect? Can there be a compromise that doesn’t significantly increase the storage space for Events, such as placing a record i…

Within the camera the notification is currently tied to the event recording, there is a Wyze sensor pack however that has a great motion sensor that will notify you when motion begins, and when it is clear again:

Home Monitoring & Automation

it will set off an event once the 5 min cool down is done, even if it is one long motion… these clips however are limited to 12 sec (unless you have an sd card in the cam, then they will be 1 min clips until the motion is done, with no cool down period - recorded locally on the sd card…this does not change the 12 sec event clips in the cloud).

there is also a wishlist item that can be voted on for longer options than the 12 sec event cloud recording:

Longer Event Video Lengths

This is under consideration but would likely take a subscription service and is unlikely to change in the near future. People are cautioned not to rely on our product for security or important tasks because the combination of a short video with a 5 minute cooldown period makes it easy to lose the most important footage. There is concern that a camera could be stolen or destroyed so a microSD card is not viewed as an acceptable compromise. This would be less of a problem if we could stream video …