Trezor Suite doesn't have push notifications for new transactions?

[Forsyth Jones]

I recently used my Trezor (suite) to receive a transaction, and today I had the following trigger:

It is well known that Trezor Suite has an "Activity" tab containing sub-tabs: Notifications, System, and Release Notes:



The Notifications tab displays activity related mainly to new incoming or outgoing transactions, but, these notifications do not appear in the Windows or Linux system tray on panel/task bar, unlike in Bitcoin Core or Electrum, where a system notification usually pops up to announce the receipt or sending of coins. I consider this a very useful feature for wallets.

I also really appreciate notification sounds when a new transaction hits the wallet. This is common in wallets like Bitcoin Wallet for Android (the Schildbach wallet, the first Bitcoin wallet released in 2011), when the wallet detects a new incoming transaction, the app plays a sound of coins clinking / falling (kind of like a cash register sound, i can't explain it well). MultiBit Classic/HD also had a similar notification sound. I think in most such apps, the sounds were optional and could be disabled in the settings.

Nowadays, some wallets like Bluewallet only offer push notifications (without sound). The combination of a notification + sound was something I found very useful in older wallets, why has that feature disappeared?

Notification sounds are useful because users often wait for transaction confirmation to take a subsequent action. Often, an incoming transaction gets confirmed without the user even realizing it until later, with a notification sound, they are made aware of it immediately.

[rdluffy]

To tell you the truth, it’s something I’ve never really stopped to think about
Usually, when I send or receive transactions, I make the transaction and then immediately close my wallet (Electrum), or in the Trezor Suite itself, I make the transaction and then close the app and remove the hardware wallet from the USB port
Most of the time I don't wait to see the tx confirming or I don't leave wallet opened in my device

Could the reason of not having real time notifications be a security measure to avoid having something running in the background? To minimize processes and keep only the essentials running?

[m2017]

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Send your suggestions to the Trezor support team; this will increase the chances of them adding a pop-up notification and\or sound alert for transaction confirmations when receiving or sending assets. They might just listen and add this feature to trezor suite (hopefully with an option to disable it), though personally, I don't really need it.

By the way, what’s stopping you from installing app on your phone and tracking all the transactions?

To tell you the truth, it’s something I’ve never really stopped to think about
Usually, when I send or receive transactions, I make the transaction and then immediately close my wallet (Electrum), or in the Trezor Suite itself, I make the transaction and then close the app and remove the hardware wallet from the USB port
Most of the time I don't wait to see the tx confirming or I don't leave wallet opened in my device

I do exactly the same thing. I’ll add that, after some time, I might check the transaction confirmation - sometimes even via a blockexplorer - since I’m too lazy to connect the hardware wallet to my PC again.

Also, from a security standpoint, it’s not exactly wise to leave trezor suite open, even if the hardware wallet is physically disconnected, since some users on this forum have mentioned living with relatives and wanting to keep their HW device locked in a safe in a separate room under camera surveillance.

Everyone will feel more at ease if no one but you (or people you trust) can see your balance in trezor suite.

[Pmalek]

I personally don't see much need for such notifications but completely understand why others might want to have them. Maybe you can ask for the feature to be added with a new GitHub issue and see what the responses look like.

Whenever I am done with my Trezor, I just disconnect it and put it away, not waiting on the balance update and information about incoming transactions. I usually check back later. Sometimes I look up the transaction on mempool.space. Btw, mempool.space has sound notifications when a transaction confirms (when the block it gets into gets mined).

By the way, what’s stopping you from installing app on your phone and tracking all the transactions?

Trezor has that Lite app that functions as a watch-only wallet on the phone, but from what I know, there are also no push notifications or sound notifications for incoming transactions there.