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Hardware support => Moteino => Topic started by: Jim on October 25, 2019, 04:04:03 PM

Title: Battery powered sensors aswell as low power receiver
Post by: Jim on October 25, 2019, 04:04:03 PM
Hi,
desperately I'm searching for a receiver that can be set in low power mode. As far as I understand the MotionMote can last a long time on batteries and send a message when a motion is detected.
I could find any sketch for a receiver. As I understood you need a Moteino as a receiver.
What would be the power consumption as I need to run it on batteries and what's the delay between the detected motion and let's say a signal led on the receiver?
Title: Re: Battery powered sensors aswell as low power receiver
Post by: Felix on October 26, 2019, 09:05:16 PM
The receiver would need to be in constant RX mode which uses around 15ma, to ensure packets are received. Otherwise you have to get into "Listen Mode" (aka, RX on for some time, sleep most of the rest of the time) which get complex and tricky and the SX1231h/RFM69 radios have been quirky in that mode.

The LED/OLED could be kept OFF (display nothing) and only display useful information when a node sends a message. Overall simple to achieve and receiver /gateway battery life depends on battery size if its not powered from a permanent power supply.

Nodes are very low power, easily a year or more on a small battery (500mAh) depending on distance and trigger frequency.