I have a home located remotely from my primary residence. The CAO warning of consequences for low CAO tag batteries has caused me concern. I will not return to the remote residence for 8 months because of health (surgery) and weather. The tags are used to monitor motion and temperature at entries. Insteon Hidden Door Sensors also monitor entries. Ideally, I would like to monitor the the entries with the Hidden Door Sensors until their batteries fail then use the tags. Can the tags be set for a minimal battery requirement (a sort of standby mode) and then remotely be brought to full motion monitoring status? The objective being being able to monitor entries for 8 months.

I'm pretty sure the answer is no, but I don't have CAO tags that do motion, only temp and door opening.  However, CAO has a number of devices that can plug into a usb power supply.  This is how I run my two wireless tags that are inside a walk-in freezer and fridge.  But this requires that you physically go there to set it up.

2 hours ago, apostolakisl said:

I'm pretty sure the answer is no, but I don't have CAO tags that do motion, only temp and door opening.  However, CAO has a number of devices that can plug into a usb power supply.  This is how I run my two wireless tags that are inside a walk-in freezer and fridge.  But this requires that you physically go there to set it up.

Thanks, I thought the answer was no as well but I wanted to first check with those more knowledgeable than me.

You can disable motion detection completely which should help battery life, and in special options set "Buffer multiple" so they push out temp/hum updates less often, and change "Receiver Mode" to "Lower Power Mode".

 

Thanks sir, will do.