topic Battery life with thick concrete wall between camera and ground station in Arlo

Battery life with thick concrete wall between camera and ground station

basgroot — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 18:37:27 GMT

Question about ground station placement and possible shorter camera battery life with a weak signal.

After about 4 weeks the ground station lost contact with the camera. Turns out batteries were dead (now 2V instead of 3V). So 4 weeks instead of the promised of 4-6 months, why? Set default footage quality. Normal room temperature. Hung in a room where nobody is supposed to come, so it shot about 15 clips in total and I checked live image 2 times a week just to assure it still works, so usage is well below the stated 4 mins/day.

First when it lost contact the amber led was still blinking for a week or so, but maybe it drained the battery extra fast because this led was probably blinking day and night.

What I want to know is: Between the cam and the ground station the signal has to go through a 10 inch / 25 cm thick reinforced concrete wall, diagonally. It didn't seem to affect performance when installing, worked just super. But could this affect battery life? Meaning: does the camera use more power to transmit data if the signal exchange with the ground station is weak, draining the battery faster? So if performance is good, does it even make sense for battery life to do a cabling effort to get the ground station closer to the camera?

Re: Battery life with thick concrete wall between camera and ground station

jguerdat — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 22:46:39 GMT

Basically, yes, but it depends on lots of variables. Does the wall have reinforcing bar, wiring or ductwork in it? Could be just a small movement of the base and/or camera may make a lot of difference. If needed, a WiFi extender for the base could be useful. Just make sure it has an Ethernet port.

Re: Battery life with thick concrete wall between camera and ground station

Momzilla — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 15:31:59 GMT

Well arlo could have designed these
With at least dect 6 instead of 2.4 hits
Very disappointing we wouldn't need extenders my cordless phone has better
Comectivity through walls and distance from base station

Re: Battery life with thick concrete wall between camera and ground station

Momzilla — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 15:43:45 GMT

2.4 megahertz

Re: Battery life with thick concrete wall between camera and ground station

Momzilla — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 15:44:01 GMT

Is not enough

Re: Battery life with thick concrete wall between camera and ground station

jguerdat — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 13:16:03 GMT

Momzilla wrote:
Very disappointing we wouldn't need extenders my cordless phone has better
Comectivity through walls and distance from base station

And that cordless phone only has to transmit/receive audio frequencies.