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Tapo App notification sounds - more options.

 
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Tapo App notification sounds - more options.

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RE:Tapo App notification sounds - more options.
2024-04-15 17:25:30

HmmmUK wrote

  @SDGTR  Hi, on Android you can change the notificaton sound on a per app basis. 
So you can have your txt messages and Tapo notifications use different sounds - the problem is all the Tapo notification sounds will be the same! 

If you are having trouble changing the app sound from the default - Google 'change android notification sounds per app' for more info.

  @HmmmUK 

 

Thanks, I did do that but for some reason it sometimes reverts to the default Android notification sound and ignores the setting under Apps>Tapo>Notifications.  In those settings I've had to reset it a couple of times and change the sound back and forth, then reboot the cameras and close and reopen the Tapo app.  Finally got it working

 

For now it's stable but yesterday I spent a bunch of time getting it to work right.

 

Also, the notification categories for the Tapo app under the phone's settings only shows Verification, Miscellaneous, and doorbell.  It doesn't have a category for cameras.   It looks like those are tossed under Miscellaneous.

 

So for now it looks like I do have a different sound for Tapo cam notifications but I still have no idea which camera it's for.  I wish they added some way to customize a specific sound for each camera like Ring does.   And I'm still not sure why it sometimes ignores the current setting for the Tapo app's Miscellaneous category.  

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RE:Tapo App notification sounds - more options.
2024-04-16 04:25:42
I think I figured out why the Tapo notification sound switches itself back to the phone's default notification sound. I don't know how to fix it permanently but it seems to happen every time I add a new camera to my account in the app. Even though in the phone's settings for the Tapo app it's configured to use a different sound, after I install a new cam it starts ignoring the sound it's configured to use and goes back to playing the phone's default notification sound. To get it to play the different tone again I have to change the notification sound to something else, then change it back to the sound I want, then turn notifications for the app off and back on. Then it will play the sound I configured.
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RE:Tapo App notification sounds - more options.
2024-07-04 10:50:27
More notification options and/or Categories for sounds
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RE:Tapo App notification sounds - more options.
2024-07-09 08:57:20
good idea
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RE:Tapo App notification sounds - more options.
2024-07-23 16:41:14

 Would love to see custom notification sounds like I had on my old Arlo cameras.  Hard to distinguish between camera notifications and text messages from my contacts. 

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RE:Tapo App notification sounds - more options.
2024-07-28 13:18:14 - last edited 2024-07-28 13:19:17

GR2024 wrote

 Would love to see custom notification sounds like I had on my old Arlo cameras.  Hard to distinguish between camera notifications and text messages from my contacts. 


Hi  @GR2024 you can set a different sound notification for TAPO alerts than your other phone notifications, but you can't set one for cameras and another for a motion sensor etc. so when I get my TAPO notification I have to read it to see the details. 
 
NB. You can set the TAPO hub to play different sounds for different devices which works well and is useful - that's what I want for my phone smiley
 

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RE:Tapo App notification sounds - more options.
2024-08-10 09:41:17
The inability to separate sounds for different devices and different detection types would be an absolute godsend. This is one of the two things which stops me investing further into the Tapo solutions
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RE:Tapo App notification sounds - more options.
2024-09-26 09:39:22
The notification sound is the same for all cameras, which is a mayor problem. It would be so much better if each camera could just have a different notification sound, user configurable, this way we would know without having to open the app (WHICH IS SLOOOOOOOW!!) whether "the cat has entered the housee" or "there is someone at the front door".
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RE:Tapo App notification sounds - more options.
a week ago
Really need to be able to differentiate notifications on my Android phone eg have made a smart button into an emergency alarm and I need to add a much more distinctive notification sound for my phone please, rather than just the same as a random email arriving.
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RE:Tapo App notification sounds - more options.
a week ago - last edited a week ago

Hi @Kingsmead59 
FYI - you can change the notification sound so your TAPO ones are different to email etc. on Android.
Go into Android settings > apps > TAPO > notifications and you can set a different sound. 

But I would like to be able to be able to set different sounds for my different TAPO devices smiley

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