Power saving

Overview

Power saving lets a repeater sleep when it has nothing to transmit. This is useful for battery-powered or solar-powered nodes.

The default is off. Many repeaters are fixed relay or backbone nodes and should not sleep unexpectedly.

Commands

powersaving          — show current state
powersaving on       — enable power saving
powersaving off      — disable power saving

get power.stats      — show sleep/wake statistics
clear power.stats    — reset statistics

Behavior

When power saving is enabled:

• The repeater sleeps only when there is no outbound work pending.
• Bridge or WiFi mode blocks sleep — a bridged repeater stays awake.
• ESP32 boards wake via LoRa DIO1 or timer where supported.
• nRF52 boards use event/interrupt sleep.

Stats

get power.stats shows how often and how long the repeater has slept. Stats are RAM-only and reset on reboot or when cleared with clear power.stats.