Could someone please share some more details on how the power saving mode works? I assume that
- all device types (with the exception of ROUTER and REPEATER) use the same sleep and deep sleep intervals (unless overridden by user)
- device never enters power saving during an established BLE/Wifi/serial connection. user may slightly increase life on battery by disabling these connections completely (and use admin channel instead)
- CLIENT_HIDDEN is still woken up by any radio activity which means busy traffic results in a lower battery life
- the major contributor to the power consumption is a retransmit setting (or generally speaking any transmission). that is also the reason why there is “regular/low” for the devices with “awake only” retransmit (at Device Configuration | Meshtastic). it is low for the devices which don’t have to retransmit anything while awake.
thank you, jose