THIS FEATURE IS NON-NEGOTIABLE. This is an industry standard. (As are many of the other requests on hold here.) I’m speaking here as a security monitoring professional of 15+ years.
Security monitoring products like Wyze security cams, antivirus, network intrusion detection, etc. all need to reduce false alarms and unactionable / unwanted alerts. Or else they are bad, unusable products destined to fail.
There must be multiple different methods of avoiding “uninteresting” alerts, and they must be both enabled by default (to benefit novice users) and also user-configurable (because different customers have different environments and needs / requirements).
Wyze is having trouble reducing false alarms, as evidenced by these feature requests / votes and the number of false alarms bombarding customers including myself. So inhibiting false alarms is a suggestion as to how to help this situation that nobody including Wyze should want.
Excessive alerts are not just annoying and unhelpful, they also reduce security. They lead to what the security monitoring world refers to as “alert fatigue,” where operators start ignoring alerts that might refer to something new or important.
Telling advanced users to enable multi-step rules to simulate this feature is a poor solution. Custom solutions like this are less reliable and sophisticated, and few users will implement it.
Having said that, my feature request would be a little different from a “snooze” button the user has to keep clicking.
Once a notification is triggered for a specific type of event (motion, package, etc.), the software should be able to suppress repeat notifications for that exact same type of event on that camera for 5-10 minutes or whatever. Justification — repeat notifications add little value, as the operator has already been alerted.
The event should probably still be recorded, just with the notification suppressed. And would be great if a user could control this setting, by turning it off/on and choosing the duration. Maybe there could be an option to disable this automatic throttling and get to use the snooze button instead.