Text Alert Message Content

[Twittemus]

I have motion alerts sent as text messages rather than email.  The verbiage on these messages is unnecessarilly ponderous:

"alerts@arlo.com (Arlo Has Just Detected Motion) This Just In? Hi Paul, Arlo has detected motion on one of your cameras. Here are the details: Bridge at 7:52:11 AM MDT on Sep 15 2015"

Upon receipt, these words scroll across the notification bar of the phone.  This takes some seconds.  And when a car comes down the driveway, I get alerts from at least 3 cameras.

Wouldn't something like this be more efficient?:

"alerts@arlo.com - Arlo has detected motion on Bridge at 7:52:11 AM MDT on Sep 15, 1015"

Don't really need a friendly personal greeting or redundant motion detection comments.

Can I change this?  Can I request a change.  I'd just use Push Notifications if they were reliable.

[mirthful1]

That's a good suggestion.  I get that it's tricky on the iPhone (like what I have) to 'alert'.  You have 2 choices:  email or notification.  Email is clunky in most cases.  Notification is much better.  But you point out some weakneses (e.g., don't notify me about 3 separate 'events' related to the same underlying 'event').  But to Arlo's POV, how is it supposed to know that your car and you are all related?  It could say, hey, I just had 3 events all triggered within the same minute... let's group those together.  That'd work.  It's not critical that I get the notification in seconds.... wait for a bit and then group the related events (in a time sense) into a single 'notification'.  

My main Ask is for a "On/Off" button of sorts that I could place near our main door.  It's a wireless node that basically turns notification on and off... it's for convenience.  Like the old Staples "That was Easy" button.... or the amazon "buttons" that order your detergent.  Have a couple Arlo buttons that 'toggle' the mode.

Anyways, they need to keep iterating on this... as of now, it's nice, but not Uterrly Compelling... yet.

[Twittemus]

I take full responsibility for getting 3 alerts from 3 cameras when a car comes down the long driveway.  I want that.  But my quality of life would improve dramatically if the message texts were concise and to the point.  E.g., "Motion on camera Bridge at 5am."  That's everything I think, anyone needs.

btw - Getting alerts from 3 cameras operating on 2 base stations gives nice redundancy in case of the failure of a single component. Or, if a human were to try to sneak onto the property, I might only get one alert.

[BB]

Abbreviate the email please! For sake of both texts and emails.

[TomMac]

You have the two main choices, pushes OR email...

Pushes are good but for cameras either all on or all off ( android and ios )

Email is camera selectable and pretty good response but a bit more trouble to read for me on my android phone..(.And Yes, the sent messg should be programable and or short if wanted )

I orig posted using email to sms messg by using phone# as email address... most service providers allow this.

For me, the text messg pops up on screen quickly and I can look and then move on or check out,  for me it speeds thing up as to getting a notice alert.

[Brid]

I haven't seen the text option for android, only email. Did I miss this setting somehow?

[TomMac]

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Brid wrote:
I haven't seen the text option for android, only email. Did I miss this setting somehow?

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No , you didn't miss anything... Just that most carriers allow you email to be sent as a text messg ( sms) byt using the phone number.

On my android phine it handles text messgs easier than emails and displayes them differently too.

see old thread;

https://community.netgear.com/t5/Buying-Options-Tips/Using-text-messg-instead-of-email-for-notificat...

[Grits]

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