Seeing same thing. Huge amount of background usage.
I have been force closing the app and location still works fine. I now have 2 minutes of background activity over the last 24 hours. I only use the app for location really.
I can't imagine it would be refreshing the dashboard in the background. It's probably just a bug.
I turned off geofence to see if that would help. Nope. 23hours 32 mins in the last 24 hours...
But is your battery draining unusually fast? I think when it says background, its not draining the battery at anything like the rate if it was in the foreground or "on screen".
I can't speak for the other instances of this but can confirm it was draining my battery quite a bit. I went from 100% to 63% in about 4 hours.... once I disabled location for the app, I saw no such drain (it's typically about 85% in 4 hours).
on the iPhone, the geofence use the iOS location stuff which uses cell towers and wifi when available and only rarely GPS, and is designed to run way deep in the background and not drain the battery, like running full-time GPS did in the old days.
Yes, I agree that's supposed to be the case but I can tell you that's not what I'm experiencing on an iphone 11 pro. It worked just fine on my XS but since switching a few weeks ago I found the battery was draining much quicker. After looking at the stats and then subsequently disabling location for Hubitat, I no longer see it draining.
I can also tell you that the battery graphs on an iphone show the percentage the app has used the battery compared to others so when it shows Hubitat at the top this does mean Hubitat has drained more than the other apps listed.
I don't really know what would've changed as I didn't see this before but I can confirm it seems present on my wife's iphone 8 as well and the only commonality is ios 13 so maybe something's different there, I don't know.
FYI- The latest TestFlight version (1.0.5 (60)) appears to have resolved the excessive Background Activity battery usage on 13.x.
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Agreed. Seems fixed for me too
I installed the latest version (60) yesterday and under events on the device page it is departing and returning every 5-30 minutes since the update. It isn’t killing the battery, but it’s kind of useless now. Previously, if I force closed the app it worked fine for geo without running down the battery.
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Seems to be fixed on 61
New user and the app is crushing my battery. Has the production version of the app addressed this?
I'm having this same problem on my iPhone 11 Pro. I don't think force closing the app helps as I've been trying to do that as much as possible. I'm still seeing Hubitat app using 37% of my battery! with almost 22 hours of background activity! This is crazy!
How did you get signed up for the testflight version? Anything has to be better than this! Current version of app is 1.0.7
Thanks I’ll give the beta a try.
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I have not been using geofence, so I can't vouch for its manners regarding battery drain. I've been using Homebridge, SmartThings, and WIFI presence with @jwetzel1492 's combined presence app.
I've stopped using the app. All I use are shortcuts to the dashboards in chrome. That way I get the dashboard faster on screen, I don't have to wait for the app to deside if I'm using the cloud dashboard (I never do, vpn all the time) and since I don't use geo or notification from the HE app I don't miss that either.
Yup, the app was killing my battery in half a day. I set it to only when using and force quit it. I've never looked back. Maybe some day I'll revisit it but geolocation isn't currently on the top of my list.
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Resurrecting this thread. The Hubitat app definitely uses a ton of battery for location services. It’s the top drain on my iPhone X at 34%! I have other apps that use my location for SmartHome features such as Smart Life and August lock and they are no where near as power hungry. Hubitat, please optimize the app! Thanks!
