"A motion was detected" notification spamming when watching a show on AppleTV

We would like to add and stress the importance of this function or us.

We are a profound Deaf family and uses sign languages as our main source of communication. This AI was one of the best thing that came into our life to alert us the presence of any events around our house including when someone been at our door since we cannot hear the doorbell or knocking.

We do hope this can be solved somehow because all of our primary communication devices are Apple devices.

We even hope that some day the developer would add light flashing automation where when a doorbell is pressed to flash lights in our home but we know it a wishful thinking.

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This issue will even occur if we just turn on AppleTV and sitting at the main menu. We don't need to be watching something or streaming a show. Only when we power off AppleTV then the issue goes away.

In the notification the AI detection always include a thumbnail screenshot of the event triggered while motion detected does not include any thumbnail screenshot as you can see in our iPhone screenshot in the post above. It does record every motion detected in the recording timeline but when we look at it, there don't see to be any events in the recording which could had triggered it.

I thought I had the 2nd Generation AppleTV 4K but I was incorrect. It's the 1st Generation ATV4K.

It probably won't make a difference but I am going to pick up a new 3rd Gen 128GB ATV4K from the store today after work and swap it out to see if it solves the issue or not.

At first I thought I had the 2nd Gen AppleTV but it turn out that I have a 1st Gen AppleTV which really shouldn't made any difference however I went ahead and brought a new 3rd Gen AppleTV 128GB last night for two reason. The new upcoming Matter and Thread support also the HDR+ 4K support since I been reading up that 1st Gen AppleTV have difficulty kicking in 4K on YouTube and my Netflix doesn't seem to be playing the 4K version of video even I am paying for the 4K package subscription.

I removed the old 1st Gen AppleTV and setup the new 3rd Gen AppleTV then pair all my cameras and devices using the new AppleTV as the new hub.

I did not enable the camera AI notification on AppleTV itself yet however all my other Apple devices have the AI notification enabled. AI notification is working as intended and I did watch some shows last night on the new AppleTV and so far no spamming "Motion detected" notification on any of my Apple devices.

Tonight, I will enable the notification on AppleTV itself to see if it comes back or not but so far last night and today, it's all good!

One bonus plus is that the 3rd Gen 128GB seems to support the HDR+ 4K and finally I was able to get 4K on YouTube and Netflix. My TV supports it and I do have the quality HDMI and I couldn't get the 4K to "kick on" so it always goes to standard HD mode until the new AppleTV and I noticed the TV become "warm color" and looked at the Info on TV where I saw 4K!!! even on YouTube! YouTube always had maxed me out at 1080p when in auto.

I didn't like the warm color thou so I changed it to cool color instead in the TV setting. Look a bit better now.

Hopefully tonight after I enable the notification on the new AppleTV that "motion detected" won't be back and spamming again but so far no spam on any of my other Apple devices which is good.

This happens to be since the iOS 17 Home upgrade and it happens every day when I am watching something on AppleTV. I did the whole "power cycle, reboot, restart" you name it and it doesn't help a thing. I have no issue viewing any of my recordings or live streaming which works great.

All my Home on iPhone, iPad, iMac Desktop, and MacBook Pro are all playing back or live streaming the HKSV just fine without issue. My only issue was spamming motion detected like you had experienced.

Last night, I replaced my 1st Gen AppleTV with a 3rd Gen 128GB AppleTV and so far it's all quiet on the front unless AI picked up something and it would notify to all my Apple devices (AppleTV notification is turn off for now on the new AppleTV).

Hopefully that getting the new AppleTV what solves my issue but again that may be wishful thinking and I probably just jinx myself typing this LOL .......

Thanks for sharing your experience with us.

I probably will jinx myself but I wanted to report that after buying the new 3rd gen 128GB AppleTV and swapped it out with my 1st gen stopped the motion detected spamming.

So far it's been working great and I only get notification on what I set it to receive.

I did restart it in the past.

It did stop temporary then when I go back to watch something on AppleTV later, it comes right back again.