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Indoor cameras no longer detecting motion
Hello all,
I've had my Simplisafe system, including two "Simplicam" indoor cameras since early 2018. It was always reassuring that when I went down to the basement, my basement stairway's camera notified me of motion. Until recently I didn't pay much attention to the camera in my detached garage because it would frequently disconnect due to a very weak wifi signal out there.
A couple of weeks ago I finally got a wifi extender and since installing it I have great wifi in the garage. I reset, deleted, and re-added that camera to connect it to the new wifi SSID and its connection has been rock solid, using all default settings except turning the status light off. I can pull up a beautiful live view of the garage anytime but I receive no motion detection notifications.
Today I reset, deleted, and re-added my garage camera three times. (I know the definition of insanity is expecting different results after doing the same thing!) Still no motion notifications, however I noticed that my timeline has "Camera Motion Detected" entries (but my phone has gotten no notifications) at the times of each of the three re-installs.
Thinking a bit more about this, I realized it's been a week since I received a motion detection notification from my basement stairway camera - while experimenting I had reset, deleted, and re-added that camera a week ago. Lo and behold there's a timeline motion detection entry from that camera one week ago when I did that reinstall, but nothing since.
SimpliSafe notifications are enabled on my iPhone, which was on iOS 15.6.1 until yesterday when I updated it to 16.1.1.
Does anyone have any ideas about what's going on and/or some things to try that might get my cameras' motion detection working?
Thanks in advance.
Jim in the Chicago burbs (maybe even Captain11's neighbor!)
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