Jeelabs Room board - power usage

[vanisher]

I'm using the default sketch (from the workshop ).

Every 300 ms the sensors are read.
Every 2nd cycle the jeenode reports to the jeelink.
PIR movements are reported direct

If i increase the report period, will that save battery consumption?

[Digit]

Absolutely.
Don't know how the sketch works exactly, but you could start with motion triggering an interrupt to get the Arduino out of sleep.
And you could do a periodic keep-alive.

With 300 ms the batteries won't last very long I guess...

[vanisher]

Hi Robert,

Little type.. 300 are tents of seconds, so basicly every minute an update is send.

I don't need every minute an update of light/temp/humidity. Once every 5 minutes would be more then enough I guess
Maybe for the bathroom a shorter period would be better as soon as i have the Vent connected to homeseer.

[jakkes]

Hello, would you like to share your sketch? I lost mine somehow....

[vanisher]

Hey,

I used the lowpower version from: http://jeelabs.net/pub/wk103/HomeSeer/Workshop/JeeNode/

I only had to swap the portnumbers.