Notifications and recording

Cameras
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First, recording (all day or event only) to the SD card has nothing to do with notifications.

Second, to get a notification, you must have motion and/or sound detection enabled, and you must have notifications enabled for the camera, for the account globally and for the app in the phone’s OS settings.

There are three places to control push notifications:

  1. Per camera in the cameras Settings > Event Recording > Send Push Notification. This can be controlled by the camera owner or shared user and will affect both.

  2. Globally on an account basis by tapping the bell icon on the top right of the home screen, or using the switch in Account > Notifications. This affects only the owners or shared users login account on all devices they have logged in to the Wyze app.

  3. In the phone’s OS settings, which can enable or disable all notifications from any particular app. This applies to only that particular phone/tablet. (Note: this is not possible in some versions of Android.)

You can think of the three notification control options as three concentric rings or gates. If the inner gate (level-1, per camera) is closed, no notifications get beyond that level. If the gate is open, then the notification can attempt to get past the next level (level-2, account), etc.

You can control #1 and #2 with shortcuts. But remember, as mentioned above, you must also have motion/sound detection turned on to get a notification.

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