I don’t know what I’m doing wrong here, but I have tags, which are updating even more often but the batteries are still on 99% batterie. Stable now for months.
Or what do you exactly mean with “so fast” and where could be the difference. Quality of your batteries?
if i update every hour, the batteries are gone in 2-3 months. Perhaps indeed bad quality batteries.
Kind of surpsise. Good to know. Have some here, which are updating ~ the same and some even more often. 99% since 1 year (Varta). Then I’ll stay with them.
“so fast” is a nebulous variable that I would criticize the OP for using it. (Oops, I am the OP)…
I’ll burn through a pair of batteries in about 4 to 6 weeks.
I like the idea of using AA batteries. I will give it a try and see how long those last.
I have also used the same batteries for months with updates every hour on two displays.
Just cheap batteries from Amazon.
Where are you guys finding the tags? I’m trying to get into this world and cannot find a source to buy them.
I’d love a hardware tutorial as I’m not sure if I need an AP apart from the tags themselves. I thought they worked over Bluetooth.
Scrolling to the first post of this thread and using the links there might be an idea.
That is not a fair comment.
As I know the seller has retired all his products.
This is the tindie market where we used to buy them.
Exactly that.
But I guess he didn’t heed his own advice and instead liked to play smart ass. 
So again and making it explicit now, now that it’s all retired, my question was where are you guys getting them?
The very first link in the very first post.
The Tindie site was for an assembled and tested AP plus 5 tags. We have no clue why the AP is not available on Tindie any longer, but you can make your own AP using the instructions in post #26.
I actually missed that one. Thanks.
I’m a bit confused though. That one seems to be controlled via Bluetooth with app.
What’s the AP for then? Is it necessary to connect it to HA?
I could be wrong, and often am. The tag itself communicates using a “Zigbee-ish” protocol. (Quoting the AP developer). The AP is how it connects to Home Assistant. There is an integration in the project GitHub.