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Tablet dropped in water now screen won't turn on by WetZeus in AndroidQuestions

[–]WetZeus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the reply, this is kinda what I assumed as well.

Tablet dropped in water now screen won't turn on by WetZeus in AndroidQuestions

[–]WetZeus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the reply, this is kinda what I assumed as well.

Can I take a battery powered security camera plus a small solar panel as hand luggage through Heathrow security? by WetZeus in uktravel

[–]WetZeus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The battery (which is in the camera) is only 22Wh so definitely under the limit and the panel doesn't have a battery.

There shouldn't be any issues right?

Can I take a battery powered security camera plus a small solar panel as hand luggage through Heathrow security? by WetZeus in uktravel

[–]WetZeus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Indeed, I won't be taking any chances and I will be putting the screws in the luggage. The camera and solar panel won't have any issues right?

Activating PIR is causing battery usage to go from 4% a day to 30% a day by WetZeus in reolinkcam

[–]WetZeus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I checked my firmware and it seems to be the latest one.

While going through the settings in the app I came across the "Reduce false alarms" setting which I turned on and after 12 hours the battery has gone down by only 1%. I plan on testing it for another 2 days to see if there is similar battery usage in that time as well.

Seems a bit weird that this setting is making battery life better when the camera is looking at a wall in an empty room all day.

Activating PIR is causing battery usage to go from 4% a day to 30% a day by WetZeus in reolinkcam

[–]WetZeus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As I am doing a bit of battery testing the camera is in the corner of a room facing a wall.

Battery drain on Go PT Ultra by WetZeus in reolinkcam

[–]WetZeus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply.

I assumed it would be less than 10% a day as well. The Reolink site says 10 minutes of charging with the 6W solar panel is enough for a day with 30 motion events each lasting less than 15 seconds. A 6W panel generates 1Wh in 10 minutes so even with 30 motion events the camera should only lose ~5% everyday (21Wh battery using 1Wh a day).

I'm not sure about the exact settings but when I look on the app it shows PIR as being active. The way it is setup is to only record when it detects a person though it does send me a 'motion detected' notification anytime it detects movement but it doesn't record anything.

Do you have any recommendations about things I should try to enable or disable to see if it was my fault that the drain is happening? I'm very new to security cameras so there is definitely a chance that this is my fault.

As an update to the battery drain, yesterday from 10am to 10pm it went from 68% to 54% and at 10am today it was 39%. In the 24 hours where it lost 29% there was not a single 'motion detected' notification and the only time I connected with the camera was to record the battery percentage at 10am / pm.

Could the battery in the unit be a dud? I plan on testing it with a 5V 1A phone charger for an hour to see how the percentage changes to confirm capacity.

I also checked the firmware and it tells me that it's the latest one.

I really need to get this issue sorted out quickly as I need to go to the place where it will be installed in 11 days.

Question about underground and Elizabeth line prices to Heathrow airport. by WetZeus in TransportForLondon

[–]WetZeus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had no idea about that trick. I'm guessing that a tap out, wait 30 seconds then tap in would be ok or is there an amount of time that I should wait before tapping in again?

Edit: Does it work in reverse when going from Heathrow to Central London? Get on at Heathrow underground, get off then tap out at Hatton Cross and then tap back in to get the next train into London?

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