Power outage happened and Base Station crashed and now battery life is bad

[Djh111]

Can anyone offer advice please?

I have a 3 camera Arlo Pro system set up for a couple of years, 2 cameras outside and 1 inside.
Always been fine until around a month ago when we had a power outage. The base station ‘crashed’ and I had to do a full reset and reinstall all cameras etc. Since then the battery life in all 3 cameras has been bad, less than a week from a full charge, they used to last a couple of months.
Power management is on optimised and mode is geofencing, cameras probably record for less than 5 mins per day.
I think the base may have done a firmware update when it reinstalled?

Any tips to sort battery life hugely appreciated!

[StephenB]

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@Djh111 wrote:
 The base station ‘crashed’ and I had to do a full reset and reinstall all cameras etc. Since then the battery life in all 3 cameras has been bad, less than a week from a full charge, they used to last a couple of months.
Power management is on optimised and mode is geofencing, cameras probably record for less than 5 mins per day.
I think the base may have done a firmware update when it reinstalled?

Any tips to sort battery life hugely appreciated!

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Do you use activity zones?  That can mask the amount of video streaming (since out-of-zone recordings are silently dropped).

Also, what signal strength are you seeing?  Any signs of lost connections (live streaming fails, cameras or base offline, etc)?