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During normal operation, when a node wakes up from sleep, it looks like the radio is enabled right away and stays enabled until the node goes back to sleep. For my use case, I need the node to wake up with the radio disabled so I can acquire data for several seconds. After acquisition, I'd like to manually enable the radio to send the messages. When complete, node goes back to sleep (which automatically disables radio).

Are there commands to manually enable and disable the radio? Radio is a nRF24 on a pro-mini arduino if that matters.

I've just started playing with MyNodes and so far, it is REALLY GREAT! Thanks for all your hard work.

Newbie question: All the MySensor nodes are created in the Main Panel. How do I move them to a different panel?

The Dashboard gets really busy with just a single column of UI readings. Obviously this problem is solved if one splits up the Main Panel into multiple sub panels; ideally one panel per MySensor node. I know how to created a new panel, but there is no way to import the main panel. And in the Main Panel, I haven't found a way to export itself so I can import the MySensor nodes in the new sub panel.

@Boots33 - You'd the Man Boots!!! That was it. Commented that line out, and it's working! After inspecting the code again, I noticed the "!" (NOT) defined for "MY_W5100_SPI_EN" which indeed must have stopped Soft SPI. Thanks again!

sleep() puts the arduino (and radio) to sleep. I need a way to put the radio in a low current consumption state while the micro stays awake and acquires data from sensors and processes that info which can take a few seconds. Only then do I need to send the data after-which I can sleep.

In my use case, without transportPowerDown(), I burn an extra 14 mA for 2 seconds every minute. This equates to just over 11 mA-hr per day or over 330 mA-hr per month of needless energy consumption!

@d-smes said in transportPowerDown() with v2.2.0:

transportPowerDown()

Thanks guys; that worked! And if anyone else is interested, the radio automatically re-enables when you send a message.

@gohan - I monitor several temperatures, water levels, and flow rates associated with a duck pond and filtration system. Things can get out of whack fairly quickly due to pump inlet blockages, full filters, equipment failures, and weather induced surprises. Need quick updates so if there's a problem, I can intervene before a pump runs dry or I lose too much water.