[ShelaVenna]

B4S, I think it’s possible you got the 7-10 day battery life from something I wrote at some point. Maybe not, but it seems very possible because I’m one of the few people who bought a Smartbox without the charging station that was designed to come with it. The original Smartbox was designed to use power from the disposable batteries only in an “emergency” when it ran out of charge. The batteries were only intended to be a stopgap. I was originally using “Amazon Basics” batteries that would die in an extremely short amount of time. I thought the smartbox was just a battery hog, but it turns out that the batteries I was using were just extremely poor quality. I switched to decent Duracell batteries and they last about 4 times as long. Of course, I don’t know how this new Smartbox differs from the original, aside from the fact that it runs on disposable batteries exclusively. If it’s anything like the original it should have a fairly decent battery life as long as you use good quality batteries, and maintain a good seal on the domes so it doesn’t have to turn on as often.