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Battery life after firmware update

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I have an Arlo Pro base station running firmware 1.20.4.0_4208_38740e8 and 6 Arlo Pro cameras (5 inside and 1 outside) running firmware 1.092.1.0_9_120d8b7.  When I'm logged in to my.arlo.com under "About" it says I am running Version 4.0.3_2 released December 14th 2022. I had my outdoor camera go completely dead about 4 days ago and was trying to remember if I had just charged it recently (was 95% sure I had just charged it about 2 weeks prior) and thought it was strange it would have drained so quickly, so I fully charged one of my indoor cameras and changed it out with the outdoor camera in order to see if that battery just went kaput. Now 4 days later, that camera is at 43% charge remaining. I am hoping since the version I am running now was just released, they have already been made aware of this issue and pushed this release out to fix the battery consumption issue. The 5 indoor cameras are in a heated building, have 3/4 or 4/4 bars for wifi signal, and rarely record activity. These usually last about 7 months on a charge and seem to be holding their charges approximately normally. The outdoor camera is subject to freezing temperatures, generally has a wifi signal of about 2/4, and records activity about twice/week on average for about 10-15 seconds each time. Under these exact same conditions, the outdoor camera used to last anywhere from 3-4 months. Now it appears I'm going to be lucky if I get 3-4 weeks out of it. I see this has been an issue in past years with different firmware updates; has anyone have this issue pop up recently (in the past month or so)? And does anyone know when the last update prior to Dec. 14th happened? Thanks!

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I'm running 4.0.1 (5272), released Nov 30, 2022.  All mine are outdoor, but two are especially busy - the others are mostly inactive.  I've noticed recently that the two active ones will barely last a week or so now, when they used to last three plus weeks.  Arlo secure will also frequently tell me that they are offline.  Let everything sit for a few minutes and they're back when I check again. No solutions here, but it is very irritating as these are the two hardest ones to get to as well.  Hope there is a fix coming soon.