ProffieOS standby time

profezzorn · June 2, 2023, 7:55am

So RSX-Engineering was suggesting some changes to proffieOS, which highlighted a bug in the clock control class. Fixing that bug seems to have improved the standby time for the V2 proffieboard from ~6 months to nearly two years if my measurements are correct.

Assuming I didn’t break something else, I will backport this bugfix to the 7.x branch once people have had a chance to try it out. For now it’s just on the github master branch.

Fett263 · June 2, 2023, 11:41am

So would it be accurate to say this enables a “Deep Sleep” capability for users who’ve wanted on the v2.2 as well as v3.9?

baldusi · June 2, 2023, 2:20pm

So, the idea is that we test master on some V2 and just leave them for a week?

NoSloppy · June 2, 2023, 4:15pm

Amazing! Now to go reflash all these shelf sabers

profezzorn · June 2, 2023, 5:34pm

I think it depends on your definition of “deep sleep”.
Deep sleep could also mean a mode where the saber is unresponsive until you press a button.

Assuming my measurements are correct, there is no need for “deep sleep” to save battery anymore.
But maybe people still want “deep sleep” to prevent accidental ignition?

Fett263 · June 2, 2023, 5:51pm

Fair enough. I’ve always taken the “Deep Sleep” request to be more pertaining to battery life for users without a kill switch or kill key. It’s something other boards seem to market as a feature, although I always install a kill switch personally, but I’d say 2 years of “shelf life” would be equivalent to a “Deep Sleep” mode for battery life.

I have a define in my prop that handles accidental ignition after MOTION_TIMEOUT that I think cover that end.

github.com

profezzorn/ProffieOS/blob/0abb7b03b1e1085627aab5aac89c9b81f606d258/props/saber_fett263_buttons.h#L629


      
          Cannot be used with FETT263_SAVE_CHOREOGRAPHY or FETT263_HOLD_BUTTON_LOCKUP
          *Not the same as ENABLE_SPINS
          
          FETT263_MULTI_PHASE
          This will enable a preset change while ON to create a "Multi-Phase" saber effect
          
          MOTION_TIMEOUT 60 * 15 * 1000
          This extends the motion timeout to 15 minutes to allow gesture ignition to remain active
          Increase/decrease the "15" value as needed
          
          FETT263_MOTION_WAKE_POWER_BUTTON
          Enables a click on POWER Button to Wake Up Gestures after MOTION_TIMEOUT without igniting blade.  
          Saber will play boot sound and gestures will be active.
          
          FETT263_QUOTE_PLAYER_START_ON
          This will set Force / Quote Player to play Quote by default (if in font)
          
          FETT263_RANDOMIZE_QUOTE_PLAYER
          This will set Quote Player to randomly select quote.wav instead of playing sequentially
          
          FETT263_CIRCULAR_VOLUME_MENU

baldusi · June 2, 2023, 6:43pm

For me is about forgetting about the board. Somehow, I’ve never seen a Proffie las more than two or three weeks before eepleting the battery so much I have to charge it from zero.

profezzorn · June 2, 2023, 8:26pm

The 2-year standby only works if everything is off.
That means no blinkys, no gesture ignition, no motion controls.
When I measure it, I use the “default_proffieos_config” to do it, which uses the “saber” prop.
I’m not entirely certain if other props lets everything power off or not, it may depend on styles and settings.

AchillesPDX · July 27, 2023, 4:29am

Is this fix just changing

#ifdef PROFFIEOS_VERSION

to

#ifdef PROFFIEBOARD_VERSION

?

And will that work on my v6.7 code? I’m not looking to dive into os7 just yet, but if I can change that one line of code in clock_control.h to get WAY better standby time, I’ll gladly make that change locally.

MegtoothSith · July 27, 2023, 8:55pm

No more Fredrik yelling, “Low Battery” at 3AM? Then I have to figure out who is the culrprit? Ha! Awesome find Fredrik!!!

profezzorn · July 28, 2023, 7:34pm

Yes, that is the fix.
However, there are fairly widespread reports that this “fix” also causes the board to freeze.

AchillesPDX · July 28, 2023, 7:46pm

I saw those reports as well, but on 6.7 changing that one line does NOT cause any freezes that I’ve seen yet and my saber was asleep for a day before I powered it back on with no issues.

profezzorn · July 28, 2023, 8:18pm

That’s good, but I don’t actually think it’s a 6.7 vs. 7.x issue. I suspect that using some features (like maybe gesture activation, or oled displays) causes freezing. Although I don’t know, so clues are welcome…

AchillesPDX · July 29, 2023, 12:32am

Gesture activation is on here, but I don’t have an OLED display hooked up. This is an LGT proffie board with the default wiring (though I did unhook the button LED from the speaker connector because WTF LGT?)