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Reduce redundant notifications: coalesce events or have timer before renotification

 
14
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Reduce redundant notifications: coalesce events or have timer before renotification

Reduce redundant notifications: coalesce events or have timer before renotification
Reduce redundant notifications: coalesce events or have timer before renotification
2024-01-16 16:04:14
Tags: #Motion Detection #usability
Model: Tapo C120  
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Request: implement some way to reduce the number of redundant notifications from the Tapo camera.

 

Background: My Tapo C120 sends way too many redundant notifications. I want to have person, pet, and motion detection enabled so I don't miss anything. But if a person and a  dog walk in front of the camera at the same time, getting 3 notifications at once is too much.

 

A simple implementation would be a setting not to renotify within a selectable period of time (30 seconds, 1 minute, ...).  Some other cameras and motion detectors do this.  On some it is unfortunately not a settings.  On others, the setting is referred to as "cool down" or "renotify time".

 

It would also be nice to have a sense of priority -- If I've gotten a notification about a person being detected, I don't also need a motion notification, it is lower priority than knowing that a person has been detected.

 

 

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Re:Reduce redundant notifications: coalesce events or have timer before renotification
2024-01-17 12:09:05

  @rct0 

Hello, 
Thank you for your feedback here, we certainly appreciate your feedback and feature request.
While we don't have any specific details that I can share about if this feature can come to the product or when it might, I'll log the feature request and pass it along to the team to evaluate.
If other users have the same request, please vote on this thread or leave your comments.
Best Regards

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RE:Reduce redundant notifications: coalesce events or have timer before renotification
2024-05-01 00:53:51
yes, please, a notification frequency would be nice. Like 1 notification at max every N minutes window per camera would be nice
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RE:Reduce redundant notifications: coalesce events or have timer before renotification
2024-09-19 07:02:27
Yes, I would love this too. If someone is continually moving in front of camera it drives me crazy with notifications. Need to be able to set a re-notification time.
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Re:Reduce redundant notifications: coalesce events or have timer before renotification
2024-09-30 05:00:19

  @rct0 yep! For me too. Otherwise someone could turn off the notifications...

 

It's a small feature to implement.

 

thx

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RE:Reduce redundant notifications: coalesce events or have timer before renotification
2024-10-06 15:11:21
This is something that eufy has and you should have it too - notification interval, meaning that you can configure it so that no more than 1 notification in say every 5 minutes.
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Re:Reduce redundant notifications: coalesce events or have timer before renotification
2024-10-08 20:21:32
Many other vendors have this feature where there is a setting for an interval 10s, 20s, 30s and so on, before the next notification is sent. It is really annoying to see so many notifications in a few seconds about the same event.
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RE:Reduce redundant notifications: coalesce events or have timer before renotification
2025-01-24 14:31:40
Totally agree
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RE:Reduce redundant notifications: coalesce events or have timer before renotification
2025-03-01 03:47:14
Also adjust the length or set video recording limit per instance
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Re:Reduce redundant notifications: coalesce events or have timer before renotification
2025-03-03 17:53:19

  @rct0 it's frustrating that over a year later this is still an issue. It's almost a deal breaker at this point. It shouldn't be all or nothing. I should be able to get work done while someone works in the yard without completely having to turn off notifications.

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RE:Reduce redundant notifications: coalesce events or have timer before renotification
3 weeks ago
I have Eufy but have been eyeing Tapo for a while but this keeps me from wanting to buy Tapo cams at all. Also, I can only imagine the bandwidth costs this makes Tapo incur with so many redundant unnecessary notifications hitting their servers all the time. Would be in their best interest to let users set a custom cool down period between notifications such as 1 minute, 2 minutes, 5 minutes, etc. Also, a notification snooze feature so when someone will be working in front of the camera for a while I.e. in the yard there will be no notifications for X number of minutes or hours.
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