Inkbird Battery usage

[meager stump]

I have several Inkbird TH-2 Devices, and they all exibit strange battery usage patterns. It wood work fine for sometimes weeks, and the would have an abrupt drop to below 80% and from there it would rapidly discharge over a course of a couple of days.

At first I though that some of those are affected by temperature and used lithium (expensive) batteries in those. But it does not seem to make much difference.

I'm not sure if the integration is querying the devices too often or something... All these devices are in a vicinity of a esphome-based bluetooth proxy, so they should all get decent signal, as a BT transponder would be within a few meters for each one of those devices.

[gleaming osprey]

Did you find a solution? I'm having the same issue

[agile drift]

Inkbird devices require active scans. This can impact the battery life unfortunately the devices do not broadcast passively so there is no way to get the data without an active GATT connection or an active scan.

2025.5 will support falling back to using an active GATT connection if active scans are disabled

You could try disabling active scans on all of your local adapters, and proxies once you’ve updated and see if that helps your battery life

If not, my recommendation would be to switch to a different vendor that doesn’t require active scans