Verbal notifications - on shared cams and identifying

I’ve two problems.
I am on “share” with a bunch of cams that my BIL runs. We monitor a house. I’d like to be able to turn off notifications coming to MY phone when I know somebody is there, but how?

I’ve another bunch of cams monitoring 2 properties - I used to have an app called “Light Flow” that could read part of the notification message and give me a custom voice alert. So on a camera monitoring my sump pump I would hear “pump cam”, on the camera monitoring front door, I’d hear “front door cam”. That app stopped functioning.
Does anyone know of a simple replacement?

Yep, I also used to use Light Flow, so I know exactly what you are talking about.

I currently use the following 2 apps to do this:

But I’ve heard there are some other ones that should do it too, including some free ones.

I’ve heard of Voice Notify (Free and open source and available on F-Droid) and TTS Util (also open source, though more difficult to use). Speak Notification is on Google Play. ReadItToMe is also on Google Play.

I think the easiest one to use if voice announcements are the main thing you are looking for is “Buzzkill” though. I use it for lots of Wyze notifications. But it does have a cost to buy the app. I believe I got it on sale during Black Friday, using free Google Play money from answering the “Google Opinion Rewards” surveys on the Rewards app.

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I haven’t yet tried BuzzKill but also would give a :+1: to MacroDroid, which has an ad-supported “free” version that’s limited to 5 macros (if I understand correctly).

This makes me think of FNR Notifications Reader (I think maybe at one point it was called “Free Notifications Reader”?):

I haven’t actually (yet) tried that one, either, but I think it’s one I’ve seen mentioned elsewhere on the Forum in the past.

Since this isn’t available natively in the Wyze app, I was going to point you to the relevant Wishlist topic, but I see that you’ve already replied there. :grin:

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The only frustration I’ve had with Macrodroid vs Buzzkill related to notifications is that Macrodroid can be picky about what part of the notification you are searching…title vs subtext, etc. Which is very precise, but more complex. While Buzzkill allows you to just say ANYWHERE in the notification if these words exist, which is less precise, but much more simple.

However, Macrodroid does have a decent free tier as you point out if one does not need too many macros.

Another option for turning off notifications to the phone temporarily is to use the SNOOZE feature. It will allow notifications to be shut off for a certain time and then automatically turn back on after that much time passes.

Another option is to make a shortcut rule that turns off notifications for all or certain cameras when the button is pressed, then another that turns them all back on when it is pressed.

Yeah, and apparently it’s failing in the v3.2 Android app, though I don’t know if the more recent hotfix addresses that. I haven’t yet tried to test.

Yeah, I had a Macrodroid update kill some of my notification macros a while back. It was fairly frustrating. I had to redo them and figure out what was title vs subtext, etc and it made things really complicated for my use case because it was so picky. I didn’t care how text was compartmentalized, I just cared if the text was anywhere in the notification, not the semantics/grammar of the notification sections. I eventually gave up on some of them and switched to using Buzzkill which checked the whole message and did it without the required nuance and precision. In that case, it wasn’t a Wyze update that ruined my Macros, it was Macrodroid forcing me to distinguish between different parts of the notification when I didn’t want to.

But then you add to that the fact that Wyze sometimes changes their notification structure, and that can also break the macros. In this case, Buzzkill is more reliable in the sense that it just checks the entire notification and if that phrase or those words are anywhere in there, it detects it. No complicated precision needed and no worrying about reorganization of notifications as long as the same words are included.

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