topic Re: Arlo Gen2 wireless doorbell battery problem in Arlo Video Doorbell 2nd Gen

Arlo Gen2 wireless doorbell battery problem

iamBrick — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 08:14:27 GMT

My arlo wireless doorbell gen2 battery always run out in 48 hrs.

I already reduced the motion detect area, record 10sec only, lower the record quality, placed at a good wifi cover area.

It still run out the battrey in 48 hrs.

what else can i do now?

Re: Arlo Gen2 wireless doorbell battery problem

jguerdat — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 11:38:45 GMT

How many total minutes of recording and live viewing is being used? You'll need to remove activity zones to know for sure since they cause the servers to delete videos outside the zones. The general spec is for <5 minutes per day.

Try bringing the doorbell indoors for testing to see whether the battery usage changes.

Re: Arlo Gen2 wireless doorbell battery problem

iamBrick — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 12:07:26 GMT

I changed the record mode to snapshot, the battery run for 6 days only….

Re: Arlo Gen2 wireless doorbell battery problem

jguerdat — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 13:07:30 GMT

And bringing the doorbell indoors for testing? It could be a signal strength/quality issue.

Re: Arlo Gen2 wireless doorbell battery problem

jcgstl — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 21:10:42 GMT

i have an Arlo2 (and first gen) doorbell and the battery dies.....on a WIRED doorbell.

What brilliant engineer at Arlo designed a product that's hardwired and still has to have it's battery recharged to function? Not a great solution, particularly on a vacation home where we are absent for periods of time.

Sort of like a solar-powered device that needs to be plugged in.

Re: Arlo Gen2 wireless doorbell battery problem

StephenB — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 01:53:57 GMT

@jcgstl wrote:

i have an Arlo2 (and first gen) doorbell

The AVD1001? Or the AVD2001?

Re: Arlo Gen2 wireless doorbell battery problem

jguerdat — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 14:54:37 GMT

@jcgstl wrote:

i have an Arlo2 (and first gen) doorbell and the battery dies.....on a WIRED doorbell.

What brilliant engineer at Arlo designed a product that's hardwired and still has to have it's battery recharged to function? Not a great solution, particularly on a vacation home where we are absent for periods of time.

Sort of like a solar-powered device that needs to be plugged in.

The battery can die if there's more recording and live viewing than the transformer power can supply. For the wired version of the doorbell, there's only a small battery inside that is used to supply extra current on demand when the transformer power is insufficient. The wire-free version uses a replaceable battery of much larger capacity but again the amount of recording/viewing can run it down.