Turning Off Video Doorbell

[tmiller1120]

When charging my video doorbell, how can I turn it off? The notifications continue. I am able to do so on my other cameras.

[StephenB]

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@tmiller1120 wrote:

When charging my video doorbell, how can I turn it off? The notifications continue. I am able to do so on my other cameras.

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If you mean motion notifications, then there are two ways. 

One is to go into the mode you are using, and change the rule for the doorbell during charging.  Deleting the rule altogether will disarm the doorbell.  You could also leave it armed, but turn off notifications.  Setting the motion sensitivity down to the lowest value would also eliminate most (or all) of the notifications.

If you've taken down the doorbell for charging, then you could also just put it in a bag or aim it at blank wall, to remove anything in the field of view that might trigger the passive IR sensor.  

FWIW, I do think that it should be possible to turn off the doorbell in the video settings (as you can do with all the cameras).

[jguerdat]

A 3rd option can be to change the doorbell rule to simply turn off motion detection. Turn it back on after reinstalling the doorbell. Nothing is lost by doing this.

Agreed on the ability to simply disable the doorbell.