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Jeelabs Room board - power usage
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 5:01 pm
by vanisher
I'm using the default sketch (from the workshop
).
Every 300 ms the sensors are read.
Every 2nd cycle the jeenode reports to the jeelink.
PIR movements are reported direct
If i increase the report period, will that save battery consumption?
Re: Jeelabs Room board - power usage
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 9:17 pm
by Digit
Absolutely.
Don't know how the sketch works exactly, but you could start with motion triggering an interrupt to get the Arduino out of sleep.
And you could do a periodic keep-alive.
With 300 ms the batteries won't last very long I guess...
Re: Jeelabs Room board - power usage
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 9:24 pm
by vanisher
Hi Robert,
Little type.. 300 are tents of seconds, so basicly every minute an update is send.
I don't need every minute an update of light/temp/humidity. Once every 5 minutes would be more then enough I guess
Maybe for the bathroom a shorter period would be better as soon as i have the Vent connected to homeseer.
Re: Jeelabs Room board - power usage
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 7:48 pm
by jakkes
Hello, would you like to share your sketch? I lost mine somehow....
Re: Jeelabs Room board - power usage
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 9:32 pm
by vanisher
Hey,
I used the lowpower version from:
http://jeelabs.net/pub/wk103/HomeSeer/Workshop/JeeNode/
I only had to swap the portnumbers.