Lower-Power, Autonomous Meshtastic 'Relay' Nodes?

[jetatomic]

You’re on the same, uh… wavelength… with other threads. Here’s a couple:

Headless Base Station / Repeater

Lots of good comments there. Still waiting on LilyGo deliveries to start testing. Are headless repeaters possible? I have a vague impression that each station needs to be associated with a phone, but I’m hoping that’s just a bad memory. Yep - headless repeaters are already supported - phone is always optional. But two things should happen. At a bare minimum we need to change the various ‘sleep’ parameters when the node is working as a repeater (this is only settings changes - already store…

Ultra Low Power Nodes

Oh yes, but even better than that. I think the following two things are feasible: Since all nodes have a shared notion of the common time, it is super feasible to have nodes stay completely powered down 95% of the time (even including the radio rx which - for the time being - is always powered, but that will change). Because they know time we can (eventually) do cool stuff like “all nodes in the mesh stay completely asleep for 14 out of every 15 seconds.” During that magic second if anyone…

There are a few more I believe.