Members Stefan Kramp Posted May 9, 2023 Members Share Posted May 9, 2023 (edited) I see a very short battery lifetime with my test BLU-Button1 of only about 1 month. First battery was delievert with the blu-button1. I use myself batteries from Energizer. What is going wrong? Device is not paired, no beacon-mode. It's only sending it's data when pushed. Gateway is a PlusPlugS. Firmware is actual. Used about 5 to 10 times a day. My question to all: What is your experience? Edit: Last state:Battery shows 70% before it was empty. Edited May 9, 2023 by 66er Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Olsche Posted May 9, 2023 Administrators Share Posted May 9, 2023 No abnormalities with increased battery consumption with my 3 BLE devices 1x BLU Button1 and 2x BLU DW are currently at 100% despite daily use - all with last OTA-Update 1x BLU DW in continuous beacon mode since the debug app was released - without any significant battery consumption. BLU-Button1: What is remarkable, however, is a reduction in battery voltage during stressful testing (reduces to 70%), if you allow it a long break of several hours, the charge indicators go back to 100% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimitar Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 8 hours ago, 66er said: I see a very short battery lifetime with my test BLU-Button1 of only about 1 month. First battery was delievert with the blu-button1. I use myself batteries from Energizer. What is going wrong? Device is not paired, no beacon-mode. It's only sending it's data when pushed. Gateway is a PlusPlugS. Firmware is actual. Used about 5 to 10 times a day. My question to all: What is your experience? Edit: Last state:Battery shows 70% before it was empty. One of the first firmwares has a problem where the button is pressed for a long time, which means that your pants are tight. We are making changes to fix this in future FW releases. The latest FW shouldn't have this problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stefan Kramp Posted May 9, 2023 Author Members Share Posted May 9, 2023 2 hours ago, Dimitar said: The latest FW shouldn't have this problem. Is installed. I'll see. Thanks for the information. 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terae Posted May 12, 2023 Share Posted May 12, 2023 Also beacon mode does fast the same. I think some or all batteries are low quality what goes from factory to new items. Nothing new. 🤷 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terae Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 Oh, it seemed to be after all firmware bug. My bad. Also the battery seems to be Panasonic, so it's quality one from factory. Related FB post https://www.facebook.com/groups/ShellyIoTCommunitySupport/posts/5943435202422461/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stefan Kramp Posted May 14, 2023 Author Members Share Posted May 14, 2023 On 5/9/2023 at 3:27 PM, 66er said: Is installed. I'll see. Battery has still 100% . 😀 So, it seems to be fixed as written in the new firmware. 👍 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeroenvdd Posted May 15, 2023 Share Posted May 15, 2023 Can we find a list of the firmware versions somewhere? and currently you can only upgrade firmware with the debug app or not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stefan Kramp Posted May 16, 2023 Author Members Share Posted May 16, 2023 21 hours ago, jeroenvdd said: and currently you can only upgrade firmware with the debug app or not? Yes, as far as i know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terae Posted May 20, 2023 Share Posted May 20, 2023 On 5/15/2023 at 3:31 PM, jeroenvdd said: Can we find a list of the firmware versions somewhere? and currently you can only upgrade firmware with the debug app or not? At the moment seems like there's two possibilities: need to update and known needed to update. When you connect to BLU Button1 with pairing inside Shelly BLE Debug app for Android, it will tell that it's unsupported version and needed to be updated. If the update process fail once or twice, it can still recover. Happens some times. I updated all 14 in stock devices at my webshop (FI only) and one did fail at first try. All needed to be updated. All colours included. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stefan Kramp Posted June 4, 2023 Author Members Share Posted June 4, 2023 On 5/14/2023 at 7:58 AM, 66er said: Battery has still 100% . 😀 So, it seems to be fixed as written in the new firmware. 👍 Battery was empty again in less than 1 month. ☹️ But i think to have found the reason in all my 5 BT-Button. The problem (which I suspect) lies in the contact pressure of the contact spring of the negative terminal of the battery. In my opinion, the factory pretension is not sufficient, which leads to poor contact. I noticed the whole thing when I accidentally restarted a BT button, which can be explained by a loss of contact. At the same time, the BT button was very warm! The - contact in its original state and here after my correction : With this small adjustment, 1 BT button now runs for over 1 month and still has a battery indicator of 100%. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terae Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 (edited) I have both two in own test use 100% battery with only the software update done. Before update the battery ran dry very soon. Tried to take battery out and place again in couple of times, it will show soon only 25% and recovevr slowly but after a while it show again 100%. So loose contact is possible. Edited June 5, 2023 by terae 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terae Posted June 14, 2023 Share Posted June 14, 2023 I found yesterday the button was somehow wrong position and then found the face cover was separated from body after being couple of days with me in bag. It also happened to make loose contact and dry battery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evk Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 Recently bought a BLU button 1 and noticed that the battery was dropping fast. Found this thread and did the fix suggested by Stefan. The result is kind of amazing. This button has been still on a table, no movement at all. Can't say for sure yet if it's the improved connection that solved the problem or if removing the battery caused a reset that got it out of some battery draining state. But for anyone with battery problems, this is certainly worth trying. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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