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C410 Solar kit has recently started using A LOT more battery with no change from me

C410 Solar kit has recently started using A LOT more battery with no change from me

C410 Solar kit has recently started using A LOT more battery with no change from me
C410 Solar kit has recently started using A LOT more battery with no change from me
Wednesday
Model: Tapo C410 KIT  
Hardware Version: V1
Firmware Version: 1.2.1

 

I've made no change on my kit, and yet all of a sudden, the battery usage has skyrocketed and the camera is going completely flat. 

 

Has there been any change to how these cameras work? It's made it go from an awesome setup to something that looks like it'll be unusable going forward.

 

In terms of detection, I have only an overnight detection set (via recording schedule being set from 9pm to 5am), and have had almost no recordings of detected events. Certainly no more so than previously. (Maybe a detected event once a week or so).

 

What could cause this huge of a change in battery usage?

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Re:C410 Solar kit has recently started using A LOT more battery with no change from me
Wednesday

  @spocoaus 

 

The battery drain is related to the increase in Wake-up events, which, prior to the 27th, averaged around 16 but have recently jumped higher than that, with one day going as high as 32.   You mentioned a recording schedule is set for 9pm to 5am.  The issue is that the recording schedule does not stop your camera from waking up or sending notifications; it just stops the recording outside of the scheduled times.   So this means the camera will still monitor and wake up, and each of those wake-ups will drain the battery.  What you can try is a smart action to enable Privacy mode and schedule it to coincide with your recording schedule. 

 

  • Open Smart menu
  • create automation
  • Schedule the time for the automation
  • Set the When (Start of this schedule)
  • Set the Then
    • Control Device
    • Select the camera
    • Enable privacy
  • Save and run automation

 

 

This will ensure the camera and the battery are only used during the recording time. 

 

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Re:C410 Solar kit has recently started using A LOT more battery with no change from me
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  @Carl Thank you for this!

 

I'll try this and see if it fixes the issue.

 

I am very interested in why it's all of a sudden got so many more events compared to what it was getting though.

 

It's a camera inside a chicken run to look for foxes etc. at night. And it allows us to check in on the chickens during the day.

 

Up until this sharp uptick, it was handling things well with the solar panel and battery and always stayed largely charged. So I'm wondering if anything changed with the camera or software to cause this large change in behaviour.

 

Simon

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Re:C410 Solar kit has recently started using A LOT more battery with no change from me
7 hours ago

  @spocoaus 

 

It could be that because it's getting warmer, the chickens might be more active.  There isn't anything software that I can point to at this time that could cause that type of situation.

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