Battery Life is Terrible
I have 4 battery powered devices. A Zipato RFID keypad, two Aeon Recessed Door Sensors and an Aeon Labs Key Fob. The problem is that the battery life on all of them is terrible. The RFID keypad works for about a month, then the batteries die (without notification) and I can't disarm my alarm. I'm glad I don't have it monitored or I'd have the police here every month. But I wish I could get it monitored so I don't have to worry about someone breaking into my house.
Nothing like having a security system I can't use.
Anyway, the keyfob batteries last about 2 months and the recessed door sensor batteries last about 2 months. I've extended the wakeup interval on all of the devices, but it doesn't help.
I opened a support ticket with Zipato and they told me to do a Google search. Thanks Zipato. :|
I was hoping someone here could help me because Zipato won't.
The same problem 
Nathan,
As far as I have read Zipato RFID is known for "eating" batteries, I even read in a post one of the guys "hacked" the RFID to wire it to a power supply, look in the blog for the post. I have a couple Aeon Recessed Door Sensors and they are good with battery. Perhaps your problem is that the sensors are too far from the controller, therefore they keep trying to send the "Wake up" command to the processor without luck and that is why the run out of battery very quick, I had that issue with a fibaro window sensor which was in the furthest room to the controller and it was the only device in that room, eventually when I added more routing devices in the hall and the room the problem dissapeared. I would recommend you to add a z-wave repeater or better yet some zipato, qubino or aeotec routing devices, such as relays, dimmers and anything that is wired to power.
Regards.
Nathan,
As far as I have read Zipato RFID is known for "eating" batteries, I even read in a post one of the guys "hacked" the RFID to wire it to a power supply, look in the blog for the post. I have a couple Aeon Recessed Door Sensors and they are good with battery. Perhaps your problem is that the sensors are too far from the controller, therefore they keep trying to send the "Wake up" command to the processor without luck and that is why the run out of battery very quick, I had that issue with a fibaro window sensor which was in the furthest room to the controller and it was the only device in that room, eventually when I added more routing devices in the hall and the room the problem dissapeared. I would recommend you to add a z-wave repeater or better yet some zipato, qubino or aeotec routing devices, such as relays, dimmers and anything that is wired to power.
Regards.
Hi,
could yo please check at what interval your AEON recessed door sensors are waking up? (go to the event log section and select the sensor from there, then check how often a report is being sent in idle state).
In my case, mine was sending a report each 1hour4mn approximately. I check the settings of the wakeup interval and it was set to 8mn. It seems that Zipato is incorrectly configuring this sensor during inclusion.
According to AEON LAbs, this sensor should wakeup once a day to send battery report. On each state change it will send a report. That will ensure a battery life of 1-2 Years.
Try to modify the wakeup interval to 720mn, then wakeup your sensor manually for it to accept this new value.
Please report after some days by checking the event logs.
Hi,
could yo please check at what interval your AEON recessed door sensors are waking up? (go to the event log section and select the sensor from there, then check how often a report is being sent in idle state).
In my case, mine was sending a report each 1hour4mn approximately. I check the settings of the wakeup interval and it was set to 8mn. It seems that Zipato is incorrectly configuring this sensor during inclusion.
According to AEON LAbs, this sensor should wakeup once a day to send battery report. On each state change it will send a report. That will ensure a battery life of 1-2 Years.
Try to modify the wakeup interval to 720mn, then wakeup your sensor manually for it to accept this new value.
Please report after some days by checking the event logs.
Hi. I was that gut who hached the RFID keypad at a customer and basically running it on 3V constantly. No trouble at all, working perfect. I even reduced the wake up time to a minute or 5 minutes, now Im now sure, but it can be done.
As to the aeon labs products, if they are gen5, check the firmware they have. Open up the root device in device manager and the last (advanced) tab will show you what firmware it has. Then you simply go to aeon labs website and in the support search for the product firmware (gen5 support OTA update). If there is a newer one, download and install the new firmware. You will need aeon labs USB stick though...
Hi. I was that gut who hached the RFID keypad at a customer and basically running it on 3V constantly. No trouble at all, working perfect. I even reduced the wake up time to a minute or 5 minutes, now Im now sure, but it can be done.
As to the aeon labs products, if they are gen5, check the firmware they have. Open up the root device in device manager and the last (advanced) tab will show you what firmware it has. Then you simply go to aeon labs website and in the support search for the product firmware (gen5 support OTA update). If there is a newer one, download and install the new firmware. You will need aeon labs USB stick though...
Forgot to mention an important thing:
The RFID reader works on powered 3V without issues. If you plan to power
it ensure that the 3V downgrade will be at the RFID side of the wall,
not on the other end of the lead as over a couple of meter distance 3V
drops down fairly much and I guess this can be a problem. We are running
5V from the transformer (about 7m away) and in the RFID reader placed
this small 3V inverted or what. It just fits inside of the battery slot.
Forgot to mention an important thing:
The RFID reader works on powered 3V without issues. If you plan to power
it ensure that the 3V downgrade will be at the RFID side of the wall,
not on the other end of the lead as over a couple of meter distance 3V
drops down fairly much and I guess this can be a problem. We are running
5V from the transformer (about 7m away) and in the RFID reader placed
this small 3V inverted or what. It just fits inside of the battery slot.
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