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Hi all, while we are waiting for Netgear to fix the bug, if you suffer from frequent battery charge, this workaround worked for me for last 2 weeks. I still have ~70% left after 2 weeks. I think it's still shorter than before they broke it, but if it lasts 6 weeks instead of a few days, you climb ladders less. Unless you are ready to lose a few hundred dollars of investment, this is practically what we can do while pushing Netgear to actually fix it.
I put some visual instructions for easier following as all other instructions were text only. Note that after all this is a hack so there might be inconsistency on the results so YMMV. If it helps at all, credit goes to whoever found this trick and recommended it to me.
Key steps:
1. Create a custom disarm mode that uses one "sacrifice" camera as the trigger (only for the purpose of letting the app setup the mode -- you need at least one trigger), and don't even mention any other camera. All cameras other than the sacrifice camera will be protected from excessive drain. So, choose the most easily reachable / least motion camera as your "sacrifice camera"
2. Now when you don't need monitoring, use this special disarm mode, not the standard disarm.
3. If you use schedule (potentially in conjunction with geofence), fill your blank/off hours with this special disarm mode too. And avoid whole hour bounday. Always do :01 and :59 (half hour seems to be OK, though I chose to do :29 and :31 sometimes, just to be paranoid). There is another schedule bug with whole hour boundary, which complicated the situation. If you check all days of a week, manually check each day to make sure the schedule is correct. With whole hour boundaries, some days are randomly missing. :01/:59 should help avoid that.
Good luck!
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