Does anyone have this? I've actually seen a few ads about it here on gdgt and I've actually been pretty intrigued. It sounds like a pretty fascinating device, and its integration with various services (Google Health and Daily Burn, among others) is huge draw as well.
I've heard that this thing eats batteries for breakfast, lunch, and dinner though. Anyone have examples of real world battery life with this gadget?
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Battery life?
The first set which came with it lasted about 2 weeks (!). However, on their forums they've stated that some unit shipped with faulty batteries (they're some cheap no-name brand) and that with decent alkalines they should last months at least. I think they also pushed some firmware updates for better battery life recently as well.
Offtopic, but saying you just updated the firmware on your bathroom scale never gets old ;)
Offtopic, but saying you just updated the firmware on your bathroom scale never gets old ;)
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Dave, I've had this scale set up on my wifi network and tweeting since Jan 7th and I haven't had to touch the batteries yet. I'd say that's pretty good battery life - 2 months plus. I'll admit though I don't know the norm in battery life for scales though.
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For me, the batteries lasted about 2 weeks. After that I moved to rechargeables and have been on the same charge for over a month.
Every time I look at my router I see that the withings has a dhcp lease, however I just tried pinging it and it appears offline. I could ping it right when I turned it on the first time. So, it sounds like it does turn on/off it's radio to save power.
Also offtopic; my hope was that seeing my weight on a graph would encourage me to exercise more, but so far the withings body scale fell short on that. My fitbit also failed encourage me to exercise. Anyone know of a good wifi heart monitor? Perhaps public knowledge will help:
www.withings.com/en/utils/graph?userid=29501&p...
Every time I look at my router I see that the withings has a dhcp lease, however I just tried pinging it and it appears offline. I could ping it right when I turned it on the first time. So, it sounds like it does turn on/off it's radio to save power.
Also offtopic; my hope was that seeing my weight on a graph would encourage me to exercise more, but so far the withings body scale fell short on that. My fitbit also failed encourage me to exercise. Anyone know of a good wifi heart monitor? Perhaps public knowledge will help:
www.withings.com/en/utils/graph?userid=29501&p...
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I have also been looking into getting one of these to integrate in with RunKeeper. I didnt even think about the battery life issue with it. I guess that is what keeps energizer in business. I wonder if they will ever plan on making a plugged in version or if they think that would ruin the "wireless" experience, if an experience can be had from a scale. I haven't done any searching around, but are there any other wireless scales on the market that are comparable?
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I've been using the scale daily since mid-October and the device still reports remaining battery life at 73%.
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Mine just died this morning after almost 4 weeks of daily usage. I'm wondering if battery life also has to do with how long you stay on the scale for?
I know once it has weighed you and the progress bar reaches all the way to the right end, your weight has been uploaded to your Withings account, but I stay on to see my fat % and BMI. I'm wondering what you guys do in your home and if not staying on to see the extra data will show a considerable savings in battery life?
Then again, as some have mentioned, maybe it's just poor quality batteries that shipped with my scale.
I know once it has weighed you and the progress bar reaches all the way to the right end, your weight has been uploaded to your Withings account, but I stay on to see my fat % and BMI. I'm wondering what you guys do in your home and if not staying on to see the extra data will show a considerable savings in battery life?
Then again, as some have mentioned, maybe it's just poor quality batteries that shipped with my scale.
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I've had mine for about a week. The batteries that come with the scale are low quality and reported a 68% charge just after setup and died on day 6! Put in some good quality triple A's and I will mark the date. I have to think the scale uses a good amount of power for the display and the wifi but there are many factors in how long batteries can last. Obviously, how often you use the scale and how many users. I love the scale so far and the graphing on the withings.com site is great. It is helping me loose weight already!
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I've had to replace the batteries that were included with it once, but maybe my batteries will last a little longer.
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