topic Re: Essential Wireless Video Doorbell Battery Life in Arlo Video Doorbell Wire-Free

Essential Wireless Video Doorbell Battery Life

Coopsp — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 18:43:36 GMT

Hi, I have had the doorbell since 1st October and now its the 6th of October and the percentage is 18% in one week and the doorbell have beed pushed not even 6 times in that week. Is this what I am to expect if so it will be going back as its false advertising 3-6 months seriously. Can someone help me make the battery last longer.

Re: Essential Wireless Video Doorbell Battery Life

StephenB — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 21:01:58 GMT

@Coopsp wrote:

Hi, I have had the doorbell since 1st October and now its the 6th of October and the percentage is 18% in one week and the doorbell have beed pushed not even 6 times in that week

How much recording is the camera doing? (If you use activity zones, you need to disable them to estimate this).

Re: Essential Wireless Video Doorbell Battery Life

Coopsp — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 21:12:58 GMT

I have turned the recording off only records when someone rings the bell. And I have no zones set up.

Re: Essential Wireless Video Doorbell Battery Life

StephenB — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 21:15:31 GMT

@Coopsp wrote:

I have turned the recording off only records when someone rings the bell. And I have no zones set up.

So no recordings in the library for the past week?

Re: Essential Wireless Video Doorbell Battery Life

Coopsp — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 21:21:29 GMT

Well I have two recordings and both of them are from people ringing the doorbell

Re: Essential Wireless Video Doorbell Battery Life

StephenB — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 21:28:11 GMT

@Coopsp wrote:

Well I have two recordings and both of them are from people ringing the doorbell

Ok. FWIW, recordings aren't triggered by ringing the doorbell - the camera must have detected motion from the PIR sensor.

Normally excessive power use is either related to wifi signal quality (disconnections and reconnections) or a lot of video activity. If you are seeing full bars in the app, then it sounds like something unusual is going on.

I think a good next step would be to fully charge up the battery, and then see if this quick power drain happens again. If it does, then I suggest exchanging the camera with the seller.

Re: Essential Wireless Video Doorbell Battery Life

Coopsp — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 21:36:15 GMT

Ok well I have things turned off so not sure why it has recorded twice. The wifi strength is two bars which is pretty good especially when the modem is only about 5 metres away.
Well I will need to charge tonight and will see how it goes but not happy as swapped a ring doorbell for this one as I was hoping it would be better.

Re: Essential Wireless Video Doorbell Battery Life

LKH35 — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 10:31:58 GMT

I have the same problem with my wire free video doorbell's battery, The battery drains out quick and needs changing the battery every 1-2 months. I hope Arlo will come out some support on Solar panel for the doorbell.

Re: Essential Wireless Video Doorbell Battery Life

StephenB — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 11:01:32 GMT

@LKH35 wrote:

I have the same problem with my wire free video doorbell's battery, The battery drains out quick and needs changing the battery every 1-2 months.

How many minutes of recording per day are you seeing on the doorbell? If activity zones are enabled, you need to remove them to estimate this.

@LKH35 wrote:

I hope Arlo will come out some support on Solar panel for the doorbell.

I think they are assuming that in most cases people can connect up a low-voltage transformer that will trickle-charge the battery. (Since in most cases the doorbell is replacing a traditional one that already has the wiring and transformer in place).

Re: Essential Wireless Video Doorbell Battery Life

Coopsp — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 18:52:42 GMT

The issue is Arlo advertise the battery life but then you have to turn everything off how is that right. They really need to get there act together and sell a product that does what it says it will do. Kinda annoyed as at least the Ring lasted longer than this pathetic doorbell.