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Muting Alerts

!mute silences alerts for a specific gym, pokemon, area, pokestop, station, or all alerts at once — for a time-bounded window. Unlike !stop (which pauses everything) and unlike removing a tracking rule, a mute is temporary and scoped.

Mutes don't survive a restart

!mute is always available — there is nothing for the operator to switch on. Mutes are held in memory only, so they are lost if Poracle restarts; just re-run the command if that happens.

Basic Usage

!mute pokemon pikachu                       # Silence Pikachu alerts for 1 hour (default)
!mute pokemon pikachu duration:30m          # ...for 30 minutes
!mute pokemon pikachu duration:2h           # ...for 2 hours
!mute gym "Hilltop Gym"                     # Silence one gym for 1 hour
!mute area downtown duration:3h             # Silence everything in this area for 3 hours
!mute everything duration:1h                # Silence ALL alerts for 1 hour

/mute pokemon pikachu
/mute pokemon pikachu duration:30m
/mute gym "Hilltop Gym"
/mute area downtown duration:3h
/mute everything duration:1h

If you omit duration:, the mute defaults to 1 hour.

Scopes

The first argument selects what to silence.

Scope Argument Example
everything none !mute everything duration:2h
id:<N> a tracking rule ID (from !tracked) !mute id:42
gym gym name or ID !mute gym "Hilltop Gym"
pokemon pokemon name or dex ID !mute pokemon pikachu
area an area you're allowed to select (as in !area list) !mute area downtown
pokestop pokestop hex ID !mute pokestop abc123def456
station max-battle station ID !mute station 789...

There is a shorthand for the most common case — if the first argument isn't a known scope word, !mute assumes you meant pokemon:

!mute pikachu              # same as: !mute pokemon pikachu
!mute pikachu duration:2h  # same as: !mute pokemon pikachu duration:2h

Muting One Tracking Rule

!mute id:<N> silences the alerts produced by a single tracking rule, leaving your other rules for the same pokemon, gym or area alone. Rule IDs are shown by !tracked.

In 5.3+, editing a rule keeps its ID. Re-running a tracking command with new filters (!track pikachu iv:90 and then !track pikachu iv:90 d:500) updates the existing rule in place, so a rule mute, a remembered id:N, and the mute and unsubscribe buttons on alerts already sent keep pointing at it. On older builds an edited rule got a new ID, and a rule mute set before the edit stopped working.

!mute id:42                                 # Silence rule 42 for 1 hour
!mute id:42 duration:3h
!mute raid id:17                            # Same thing — the type word is optional

/mute id:42
/mute raid id:17

Duration Syntax

The duration must be given as duration:<value>. A bare 2h is not understood.

Form Meaning
90s seconds
30m minutes
2h hours
1h30m combined units (any Go-style duration)
7d whole days only — d can't be combined with other units (1d12h is rejected; use 36h)

A unit is required: duration:30 is rejected. If you omit duration: entirely, the mute lasts 1 hour.

Per-type Aliases

Tracking commands (!track, !raid, !egg, !quest, !invasion / !incident, !lure, !nest, !gym, !fort, !maxbattle) accept mute / unmute as their first argument. Whatever follows is handled exactly like !mute / !unmute, so every scope works:

!raid mute id:17 duration:2h                # same as: !mute id:17 duration:2h
!track mute id:45                           # same as: !mute id:45
!raid mute gym "Hilltop Gym"                # same as: !mute gym "Hilltop Gym"
!invasion mute pokestop abc123def456        # same as: !mute pokestop abc123def456
!maxbattle mute station 789...              # same as: !mute station 789...
!raid mute everything duration:1h           # same as: !mute everything duration:1h
!track mute pikachu                         # same as: !mute pokemon pikachu
!raid mute mewtwo                           # same as: !mute pokemon mewtwo
!gym mute "Hilltop Gym"                     # same as: !mute gym "Hilltop Gym"
!raid unmute gym "Hilltop Gym"              # same as: !unmute gym "Hilltop Gym"

/raid mute id:17 duration:2h
/track mute id:45
/raid mute gym "Hilltop Gym"
/track mute pikachu
/gym mute "Hilltop Gym"

The type word doesn't narrow the mute: !raid mute gym "Hilltop Gym" silences every alert from that gym, not just raids. With no scope word, !gym mute <name> mutes a gym and !fort mute, !track mute and the other types mute a pokemon (the same shorthand as !mute <pokemon>).

5.3+

Before 5.3 only !<type> mute id:<N>, !track mute <pokemon> and !gym mute <gym> worked. Other scopes after the type word (!raid mute gym …, !invasion mute pokestop …) were read as a pokemon name, and !track mute id:N didn't mute the rule.

Mute Buttons

Some alerts may also include a "Mute this gym (1h)" button (or similar) — clicking it has the same effect as running the matching !mute command for you. Buttons must be enabled by the operator; see Alert Templates (DTS).

Operators can also add an Unsubscribe button, which permanently deletes the tracking rule(s) that produced that alert rather than muting them (5.3+ for pokemon and fort alerts).

Removing a Mute Early

!unmute pokemon pikachu                     # Remove the pikachu mute
!unmute gym "Hilltop Gym"                   # Remove one gym mute
!unmute area downtown                       # Remove an area mute
!unmute id:42                               # Remove a rule mute
!unmute everything                          # Clear all of your active mutes
!unmute all                                 # Same as 'everything'

/unmute pokemon pikachu
/unmute everything

Area names are matched without regard to case, so !unmute area downtown ends a mute set with !mute area Downtown (5.3+; older builds needed the exact display-cased name).

Expired mutes clean themselves up — you only need !unmute to end one early.

Viewing Active Mutes

!tracked lists your active mutes alongside your tracking rules, with the time remaining on each.

!tracked

/tracked

How Mute Differs From the Alternatives

When you want to... Use
Silence one species or gym for a few hours !mute
Pause everything indefinitely !stop
Stop receiving a species permanently !untrack <pokemon>
Stop receiving alerts for a region you no longer care about !area remove <area>