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MeshCore-Solo/examples/companion_radio
Jakub 90ca21432c feat(power): CAD-windowed receive (battery saver) — phase 1
Add an optional low-power RX mode: instead of listening continuously, the
radio periodically runs a Channel Activity Detection scan and sits in standby
between scans; on detected activity it drops into a full receive to catch the
packet. Cuts average RX current several-fold (the dominant draw on this node).

- RadioLibWrapper: CAD state machine (scan → sleep window → rx) driven from
  loop(), which runs before recvRaw each cycle. `state` stays STATE_RX through
  all phases so the dispatcher's not-in-RX watchdog never trips. Re-arm routes
  through armRecv() in both startRecv() and recvRaw(); toggling on/off switches
  mode safely at the next idle. Falls back to continuous RX if CAD is
  unsupported. setPowerSaving()/getPowerSaving() control it.
- Software CSMA is already disabled on this firmware (interference threshold 0),
  so duty-cycling doesn't affect listen-before-talk; airtime budget still gates
  TX, and isReceivingPacket() still defers TX while a packet is mid-air.
- Companion: new rx_powersave pref (schema 0xC0DE0008), Settings › Radio ›
  "Pwr save" toggle, applied at boot (MyMesh) and on change (UITask).

CAD window = 45 ms (< the 16-symbol preamble at SF8/BW62.5) and CAD params use
RadioLib defaults — both will want on-hardware tuning + a before/after current
measurement to confirm reception is intact.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-10 17:21:24 +02:00
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