topic Re: Battery charge indicator doesn’t work in Arlo Video Doorbell Wire-Free

Battery charge indicator doesn’t work

Old-dirty — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 12:52:22 GMT

I’m charging the battery for my video doorbell wire free. It was on charge for about 4 hours but the led on the battery still showed as solid red. I put it in the doorbell to check in the app what the % was, and it had done down! I took it back out and tried it with a different cable. After 20 minutes I put the camera in and it showed 99%.

However I thought I’d take the battery out and get it up to 100%, but an hour later and the led is still solid red.

Seems like the battery itself is not recognising when it’s charged. Or maybe is refusing to get to 100%.

I’m using an official Arlo cable (not sure if it’s the one that came with the doorbell or not, they all look the same)

Anyone seen this?

Re: Battery charge indicator doesn’t work

jguerdat — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 13:55:41 GMT

The doorbell batteries take ~6 hours to charge since they're a much higher capacity than those use in the cameras.

Re: Battery charge indicator doesn’t work

Old-dirty — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 14:35:26 GMT

That would make sense. I’ll give it a little longer then

Re: Battery charge indicator doesn’t work

Old-dirty — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 08:29:54 GMT

Just to update, the doorbell did finally charge. It took longer than expected.

However, not all usb cables seem to allow the doorbell to show it's actual charge status (hence why I was not seeing higher % after charging for hours). I ended up using the charger that came with my Pro 2 camera.