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Impact of WiFi on battery life?

Does anyone know how much battery WiFi consumes? I’d be fine with just using Bluetooth if the impact is nontrivial. Would I be missing out on anything other than faster activity uploads and firmware updates?

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sabeard over 6 years ago +1
If WiFi is configured, it will only be used in one of the following reasons, otherwise the WiFi is off and not used.
1. Manually initiated a WiFi sync from the settings or control menu.
2. After activity is…
acousticbiker over 6 years ago in reply to sabeard +1

Thanks for the detailed response. Does that mean if BT is turned on, it will always be used to sync activities even when in a configured network? How about firmware updates?
acousticbiker over 6 years ago in reply to Jan502 +1

Based on comments people have made about pulse ox’s impact on battery life, do you think that’s the pulse ox, though?

Also, to those saying WiFi only comes on when needed and BT not available…

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0 jim_m_58 over 6 years ago in reply to acousticbiker

You can also just go to Settings>Wifi>Connect to Wifi, but I usually just add it to controls.

0 Jan502 over 6 years ago

In my case when WIFI was autoupload consumed at night 30%.

When I turn off wifi autoupload battery + Pulsoxymetr , battery works more than 3 days

0 acousticbiker over 6 years ago in reply to Jan502

Based on comments people have made about pulse ox’s impact on battery life, do you think that’s the pulse ox, though?

Also, to those saying WiFi only comes on when needed and BT not available, do the same rules apply when auto-upload is enabled?