All of a sudden one camera starts eating up battery life

[JJAdV]

All of a sudden the closest, 2 meters away from the base, camera has started using battery. Full to empty in the 2 days or so.. I have swapped locations, and batteries, and I bought a new battery, and it still eats it. I have disconnected it and re connected it, and rebooted all components. Most likely come with a firmware update..

When is the next update that might fix this? I will be coming up to renewal, and if this isn't fixed the system is useless, so I wont be renewing.

[StephenB]

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@JJAdV wrote:

All of a sudden the closest, 2 meters away from the base, camera has started using battery. Full to empty in the 2 days or so.. I have swapped locations, and batteries, and I bought a new battery, and it still eats it. I have disconnected it and re connected it, and rebooted all components. Most likely come with a firmware update..

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Have you tried a factory reset?

• https://kb.arlo.com/000062438/How-do-I-factory-reset-and-re-sync-my-Arlo-camera

[JJAdV]

Yes, I have fully reset, removed from base and re set up. Still sucks a battery in a week while detecting zero movement.. camera is around 1.5m from the base through a glass window with full signal.

The system has been very poor quality from day one.. I guess this will be the end, time to bin it and get a better system..

[StephenB]

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@JJAdV wrote:

Yes, I have fully reset, removed from base and re set up. Still sucks a battery in a week while detecting zero movement.. camera is around 1.5m from the base through a glass window with full signal.

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You indicated that you had swapped cameras - but I wasn't clear on the results.  Did the problem move with the camera, or stay with the location?

FWIW, 1.5m from the base might be too close (a really strong wifi signal can overload the radio receiver).