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Saturday, June 8th, 2024 11:59 AM

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Alert for No Movement Detected

I installed the system for my elderly mother. It would be a great feature if I could get a notification that there was no movement in the house for a set time period.

This would be a great safety feature for those of us who are in charge of the health and safety of our parents.

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5 months ago

Hi @paulknight13 ,

 I thought at first you were asking for what sounds like the Secret Alerts function - that is, a non-alarm alert whenever the motion sensors catch movement. So you'd be able to track movement in the house. And you mention you're already using this feature.

But upon re-reading, you'd actually like the opposite; so if the system detects that your mother hasn't moved around in a while, that's what you want an alert for (because it might mean she was in trouble).

Our system is primarily intended for security, i.e. protecting from outside threats. So we might not be able to implement something like this. But it's worth sending over to our dev team.

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I searched online looking for anything that would do this. I found a good many people looking for the same thing. There is not a good system to check on the elderly to make sure they are ok and moving around.

Thanks for checking.

Captain

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6 months ago

@paulknight13 A friend of mine has an elderly parent and suggested he purchase motion sensors for the apartment, one per room, or a SA camera, and set to secret alert in off mode for email alert to special set up address.  He uses that to check on his father several times a day, and before bed and when he gets up.  Not a perfect solution by any measure but does provide something.   

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Thanks, I do have the same setup for my mother. It would be great if they could have an option for no motion detection for x hours. I would pay a little extra for that. Thanks for the information!

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Do you know if there is a way to send the secret alerts only to the 1 special email address and not to the SMS?

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@paulknight13​ Secret Alerts fall under the Alarm notification category, so if you set up email notifications and check the Alarm option, you will receive emails whenever a Secret Alert has been triggered.

If you do not want to receive SMS notifications for Secret Alerts you would have to de-select the Alarm category from the list, but that would also mean that if there was an alarm event, you would not receive an SMS notification for it.

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6 months ago

Hi @paulknight13, 

Thank you for this suggestion, we will submit this idea to our devs for their consideration! 

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