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Pathlight/Steplight Battery Life
Installed 10 Production Pathlights and 10 Steplights as soon as they shipped (was in the preorder group), back in May and now, just about 6 weeks later most of the devices are at about 50% battery life remaining and some have fully consumed all their battery power and now gone offline. I have dialed back brightness, it’s not a busy pathway (virtually no traffic after dusk), all setup with “low” motion sensing, light sensing is enabled, light sensor threshold set to 5 (center of slider), dusk to dawn is enabled (very dark without this), bridge to WiFi router is -53 (green), bridge to pathlight is -62 (green). Motion is being detected about 7-14 times per day which seems about right with mail man, delivery people, family movements, etc. These were advertised as having about a years worth of battery life. If I have to change all batteries every 8 weeks this really won’t work for me. What gives?
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14-07-2019 00:39:13
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Can you guys confirm/deny if there was anything in the 1.25 to 1.28 firmware update for path/step that had to do with power consumption? Thx
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18-07-2019 21:16:31
CThanks. So far yes the lights are operating as desired. I’ve replaced the batteries on 4 dead devices (3 step and one path) and will continue to monitor.
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23-07-2019 22:37:52
CThanks Marley. Understood. All 20 devices do have some bridge connectivity.Peer-to-peer device communication (vs hub & spoke) might be a nice future enhancent to extend range of path + step lights and reduce overall battery life.
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24-07-2019 20:24:15
THi , does ring plan on making low voltage matching pathlights? I love them so far but do not need everyone to detect motion and not thrilled to have 20 lights on batteries but would like all my lights to match in design. Any info appreciated....Mike
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26-10-2019 16:13:55
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ADDENDUM: After powering off my bridge and back on (playing with different locations to improve signal strength to all devices), I noticed all path and step lights got an update. I was on firmware v1.7.25 and now all devices are on v1.7.28. Anyone know if any battery improvements got pushed with these updates? Are release notes published anywhere?
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15-07-2019 01:15:42
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