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feat(power): warm sleep between CAD scans + TCXO stabilisation delay
cadSleep() now puts the SX1262 into warm sleep (~1.5 µA, config retained) instead of standby-RC (~600 µA). cadWake() calls standby() then waits 5 ms for the TCXO to re-stabilise before the next CAD scan — the missing delay was the root cause of long-packet corruption in the earlier attempt (freq drift over a long payload before the oscillator settled). CAD interval bumped 45 → 65 ms: with the 32-symbol preamble now in place (≈ 131 ms at SF8/BW62.5) two scan windows still fit comfortably, and the longer standby window reduces average RX current further. Estimated idle current: ~200 µA (vs ~750 µA standby-between-scans, ~5.3 mA continuous RX). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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FEATURES.md
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@@ -339,7 +339,61 @@ A fuller position-centred navigator (you fixed at screen centre, fixed/preset
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zoom, pan) is a larger separate feature; start with the rotate-the-fit version
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if pursued.
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### 📋 Battery / power optimization (CAD RX windowing + APC) — after trail polish
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### 🚧 Battery / power optimization (CAD RX windowing + APC)
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**Phase 1 shipped on branch `feat/power-saving`** (CAD-windowed receive). Not yet
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merged — under field testing. Where things stand and what to return to:
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**✅ Done (phase 1) — CAD-windowed RX, behind a setting**
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- `RadioLibWrapper` gained a CAD state machine (scan → standby window → on
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detect, full RX), driven from `loop()` (runs before `recvRaw`). `state` stays
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`STATE_RX` through all phases so the dispatcher's not-in-RX watchdog never
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trips; re-arm routes through `armRecv()`; falls back to continuous RX if CAD
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is unsupported. `setPowerSaving()`/`getPowerSaving()`.
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- Companion: `rx_powersave` pref (schema `0xC0DE0008`), **Settings › Radio ›
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"Pwr save"** toggle, applied at boot (MyMesh) and on change (UITask).
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- CSMA unaffected: this firmware's interference threshold is already 0, so
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listen-before-talk was a no-op; airtime budget + `isReceivingPacket()` still
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gate TX. CAD window = 45 ms (< the ~66 ms 16-symbol preamble at SF8/BW62.5),
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RadioLib default CAD params.
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- **Field test:** the **base (Pwr save OFF) is healthy** — no regression vs
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stock; an earlier "drops vs stock" scare turned out to be weak repeater
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coverage at the test site (direct device-to-device was fine). With **Pwr save
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ON, occasional message drops** were observed (CAD misses some), so it stays
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**default OFF** and is experimental until detection is made reliable.
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**⏸ To return to (not done)**
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- **WAITING ON: upstream preamble 16 → 32.** Upstream `dev` raised the LoRa
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preamble from 16 to 32 symbols; we'll pick it up via the next upstream
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release/merge (our radio init still hardcodes 16 in `CustomSX1262.h`
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`begin(..., 16, tcxo)`). This is the natural fix for the CAD drops: at
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SF8/BW62.5 the preamble goes ~66 ms → ~131 ms, so the conservative 45 ms scan
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window gains a huge margin (~21 ms → ~86 ms) and the occasional misses should
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disappear — **revisit power-save right after that lands.** It also un-no-ops
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`startReceiveDutyCycleAuto(32)` (32 ≥ 2·minSymbols+1), enabling the SX126x
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hardware RX duty cycle as an alternative to the software CAD loop. Caveat: the
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scan window must be sized for the *shortest* preamble on the mesh, so a longer
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window / `startReceiveDutyCycleAuto(32)` only pays off once senders are
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broadly on 32 — keep 45 ms while the mesh is mixed.
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- **CAD detection reliability** — the open blocker (see above; the preamble
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bump is expected to resolve most of it). If misses persist after preamble 32,
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tune the CAD parameters (`setCad` symbolNum / detPeak / detMin via a
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`ChannelScanConfig_t`). Needs the current measurement below to judge the
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reliability-vs-savings trade.
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- **Current measurement** — never taken (no PPK2/meter to hand). The actual mA
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win is unquantified. Do this alongside the detection-reliability tuning.
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- **Warm sleep between scans** — tried (`cadSleep()`/`cadWake()` hooks exist) but
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**reverted**: warm sleep dropped longer packets because the **TCXO** hadn't
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re-stabilised before the post-CAD receive → frequency drift → symbol errors
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over a long payload. To revisit: configure a proper SX126x TCXO startup delay
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and ensure RX waits for "TCXO ready", then re-test long-packet reception. Worth
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~another 2× on idle-window current (standby ~mA → sleep ~µA).
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- **CAD window tuning** — 45 ms is conservative; could push toward the preamble
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limit (~55 ms) for fewer scans / lower average current, once measured.
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- **Adaptive Power Control (APC)** — drop `tx_power_dbm` dynamically on good
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links. Small win for a mostly-listening node; lower priority.
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**Original analysis (kept for context):**
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Goal: multiply battery life **without losing functionality**. The dominant
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draw on this node is the radio in **continuous RX** (always-on `startReceive()`
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@@ -379,12 +433,9 @@ at preamble 16). Prefer adopting/extending upstream work over a parallel
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implementation. Note ZephCore's licence before copying any code verbatim
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(architecture inspiration is fine).
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Sequencing: **deferred until the trail/waypoints/nav polishing is finished.**
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The radio-side CAD windowing lives on the `feat/power-saving` branch and is now
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**unblocked** by the preamble fix. First step when picked up: rebase it onto the
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v1.16 merge (it will hit the removed `radio_set_tx_power()`/`radio_set_params()`
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globals — replace with `radio_driver.*` like the merge did), then re-test whether
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long messages still drop at preamble 32, ideally profiling with a PPK2/meter.
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Sequencing: phase 1 (CAD windowing) is done and in field test on
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`feat/power-saving`; see the status block at the top of this entry for what's
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left (measurement, warm sleep, window tuning, APC).
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### SOS broadcast
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