Hi. Wondered what people were seeing battery life wise with the gen2 arrival sensor? I have two less than 2 weeks old and one reports 38% and another 50%. These are supposed to have improved battery life over gen1. Disappointed? Slightly more than a little here! :confused: Anyone know what the ex…

I got about 3 months out of mine.

3 months seems about right for me as well.

[image] a4refillpad: These are supposed to have improved battery life over gen1. What’s your source for this information? As far as I know, the circuitry is exactly the same as the originals, they’re just in a smaller case.

What he said. As of January 2016, there is truly only one version of our Presence/Arrival sensor. The only change is the plastic enclosure.

Here from your own team: [image] The Next Generation of SmartThings is Here The new collection of sensors is awesome* and includes new versions of the SmartThings Motion Sensor, the SmartThings Multipurpose Sensor (previously Open/Close, Contact, Multi Sensors), and the SmartThings Arrival Senso…

Sorry for any confusion! That statement is true, though for the Arrival sensor specifically it’s the same electronics as before. All of the other sensors are new electronics and new enclosures. The Arrival is just a new enclosure.

I’m experiencing the same thing. Oddly enough, I received two as well and the battery life on the two of mine are exactly the same as yours 38% and 50% and they’re roughly 2 weeks old. Pretty disappointed if this is truly the case. Perhaps a defective set of shipments or maybe there is a defect o…

I’ve had my Presence sensor since early October, it’s now at 38%. I don’t understand why it’s going down so fast [image] The rest of the items were installed in late November, they still seem to be dropping fairly fast.

Pretty disappointed that we might need to replace batteries every month. I’m hoping the reporting is flawed as it’s difficult to report battery life of a small battery. I’m going to see when it fails first.

My sensors were about 50% out of the box (two of them). I’ll be looking for replacement batteries this week as they are now in the 18-25% range.

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a4refillpad (Wayne) January 13, 2016, 8:14pm 6

Here from your own team:

Sounds like I’ve been mislead then. Again not good.

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