Ruuvi Station killing my phone's battery?

Ruuvi products 🇬🇧 Ruuvi Station application (mobile + web)
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Lately I have been wondering my iPhone’s battery needs frequent charging. It was replaced a few months ago, so it is quite fresh. To my surprise, I found that the Ruuvi Station accounted for 36 % of the battery usage in the past 24 hours (and Pokémon Go only 19 %). It was split into 1t37 on screen and 7t35 in the background. It accounted for 6 % for the past 10 days.

I did a lot of syncs and uploads yesterday, and one of my 10 RuuviTags had a permanent connection so this explains some but I was quite surprised, nevertheless. Often I have noticed surprisingly low battery levels, and I wonder if Ruuvi Station or the permanent RuuviTag connection could be to blame.

Now I disabled the permanent connection, and have done most of the syncing and uploading I planend to do. Let’s hope the battery does not get depleted as quickly as before.

Just a general question: could Ruuvi Station be the culprit of battery depletion?

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We have not measured the impact, but since the RuuviTag sends data to be processed for alerts once per second it might be the reason. @Rinat any further thoughts on this?

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Permanent connection consumes battery, especially if you selected “Data Logging Interval” “All” (we are calling this feature “save every heartbeat”).

I hope after removing permanent connection the power consumption went down, please ping me if not.

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Hi Rinat,

I was saving every heartbeat. Once I cancelled the permanent conenction, RuuviStation has not consume too much battery.

Problem solved. Thanks!

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