There is a major problem with the battery usage on the duo doorbell. It’s only lasting a week for me when it is advertised to last for months. I have two batteries that I’m swapping between. I changed the battery on Thursday evening with a full battery, and now, on Sunday evening, I’m showing 54%. I…

Not thinking this thru when I first setup, I inserted the SD card and the battery died in under 3 days, doh! I removed SD card, recharged and made the following changes. Using ‘Customize Recordings’ for Record/Notify: Only checked Person, Glass Breaking and Gunshot (my milk delivery box was setting …

That’s essentially what I already have (and no SD card). Glad it’s working for you! I’ve got a pretty restrictive detection zone, a low sensitivity, and only a few things enabled to record and I’m down to 37% after 5 days. :frowning:

Double check and make sure you don’t have “other sounds” enabled (or maybe totally disable sound). I guess your events list would tell you if it was picking up motion or sound though, but never know. There were issues with some cams where the motion it detects “activated” a large area of the view,…

The first week I installed the duo cam doorbell, I got only about one week out of the battery. I had to really tweak settings to get the battery not to drain quickly. I’ve got mine only detecting people and packages for now, and the battery only lasts two weeks. Also, it’s detecting motion at ni…

AI detection doesn’t save battery, in fact it often uses more if there is a lot of motion that it has to analyze and filter out. If you turn on “other motion” (and if you have sound events enabled, “other sounds” also) then you’ll see all the alerts it is having to analyze and filter, if there are …

I hate to state the obvious. If you have to scale back to all but the most basic features of this and still only get a week is it really worth having? whatever- there is a major problem here. My older doorbell from wizen lasted more than a month- I was drawn in on thinking this could go at least a c…

good find-the sound/detection zone could be contributing to my problem in some way, although I have sound recording turned off right now in an attempt to find a combination that slows down the battery burn (and I’m not seeing any sound events triggering, just motion) . If so, they really need to fix…

All the battery cams have tradeoffs, I remember friends buying Blink cams which are supposed to go for months then turning everything on and them lasting 3 days off expensive Energizer Lithium batteries. Even with moderate settings a couple weeks was all they’d get. But you should be able to use r…

I think it’s this: [image] Duo Cam Doorbell - Detection Zones stopping events/notifications? Cameras Is anyone using Detection Zones for the Doorbell? Whenever I turn mine on, all event recording and alerting stops. Nothing is detected. With zones off, the doorbell works…

Battery on Duo only lasting a week

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dave27 November 12, 2024, 9:27pm 13

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Have a look at the post below which appears that having detection zone enabled causes sound events to trigger even if turned off. I’m guessing that if you have AI detection it is then filtering them out, but still using battery analyzing them, but just a hypothesis.

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Battery on Duo only lasting a week

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