Searching for NRF52840 power saving possibilities

[espruino-discuss3]

Posted at 2021-09-07 by @MaBecker

Online Power Profiler for BLE show's some option which are available in

Firmware

1. enable the DC/DC instead of the LDO (-DESPR_DCDC_ENABLE=1)

2. enable slow speed external osc (-DESPR_LSE_ENABLE)

3. change advertising interval (-DBLUETOOTH_ADVERTISING_INTERVAL)

NRF class

1. increasing the advertisement interval using NRF.setConnectionInterval(interval)
   eg NRF.setConnectionInterval({minInterval:10,maxInterval:500}); - not sure about this one

Any further possibilities?

[espruino-discuss3]

Posted at 2021-09-08 by @MaBecker

Firmware.3: BLUETOOTH_ADVERTISING_INTERVAL=750, default 375

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Posted at 2021-09-14 by @gfwilliams

You can change NRF.setTxPower(...) to reduce power usage. Also if you're not scannable (setAdvertising option) then that can save some power too.

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Posted at 2021-09-16 by @MaBecker

Is there something similar like setDeeepSleep() for NRF528XX devices?

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Posted at 2021-09-16 by @fanoush

it is not needed, it goes to sleep automatically once there in nothing to do in event loop

EDIT:
or you can check what bangle poweroff does here https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/blob/master/libs/banglejs/jswrap_bangle.c#L4078
for lowest power state, but not sure this is something you'd want. This wakes up from off state by gpio trigger, not sure if RTC could do it too and whether with RTC turned on it would save something compared to ordinary sleep with advertising off.

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Posted at 2021-09-17 by @gfwilliams

nRF52 with Espruino does 'deep sleep' by default.

The difference between normal sleep and sd_power_system_off is pretty small - just a few uA, and you lose the RTC and everything in RAM, so generally it's not worth it.