Is there a way to prevent automatic shutdown / power off, when the hub is not connected via bluetooth?

[ggramlich]

In the new WRO RoboMission season in Germany, teams are supposed to disconnect bluetooth before putting the robot on the quarantine table. They are allowed to charge during quarantine period, but they are supposed to only use one key press afterwards to start the robot. This means that they are not allowed to switch the robot on (one key press) and then start the program (second key press). The robot should remain switched on during quarantine.

https://www.worldrobotolympiad.de/saison-2025/faq#faq1549

Currently the hub (Spike Prime) shuts down after 3 minutes, which might not be enough time for the participants and judges to get everything ready for the run.

Is there a possibility to change the timeout or to prevent shutting down all together?

I know, we could make a program that we start before quarantine and that waits for that single key press before actually executing, but I consider that more error prone.

[dlech]

There currently isn't a way to change it other than modifying the firmware source code and compiling your own firmware. But this is on our radar for the next major release as we are also working on USB support.

Feel free to chime in on #262 with any feedback.

[ggramlich]

Thanks for the quick reply David.
I will also make the German organizers aware of this.