Issues with POWER_SAVINGS and removing standby for beacon mode CC2650

Marian C Moldovan

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Hello,

I am trying to use a CC2650 as a beacon sensor. Then it should be always discoverable, so the data from the sensord can be recovered every X minutes.

I am using the SensorTag code as a start to try removing POWER_SAVINGS and disable standby and idle mode by using

Power_setConstraint(Power_SB_DISALLOW);
Power_setConstraint(Power_IDLE_PD_DISALLOW);

Still no success, any thoughts?

over 10 years ago

0 Sean2 over 10 years ago

TI__Mastermind 33460 points

Hello Marian,

Are you able to verify that the device is still sleeping after removing the power savings define? Could there be another issue affecting your system

0 Marian C Moldovan over 10 years ago in reply to Sean2

Prodigy 70 points

I removed the defines of the POWER_SAVING arg and the device is still going to sleep.

0 JXS over 10 years ago in reply to Marian C Moldovan

TI__Guru** 105180 points

Hello,

Why do you want to disable sleep? You can still advertise and establish a connection with PM enabled.
Also, how are you determining the device is or isn't sleeping? You can measure the current to the CC2650 to confirm.

Best wishes

0 Marian C Moldovan over 10 years ago in reply to JXS

Prodigy 70 points

And how do I do that?

The device stops advertising after aprox 1 minute and can't be discovered or connect and recover data (also the green led stops blinking). If I want to recover data continuosly, that's a little barrier.

I am open to any solution provided.

Regards

0 Michal zzzz over 9 years ago in reply to Marian C Moldovan

Prodigy 50 points

Hi,

I'm trying to accomplish something similar. Have you done it ? if yes then how?

Cheers

Michal

0 Marian C Moldovan over 9 years ago in reply to Michal zzzz

Prodigy 70 points

Solved it making some workarounds... basically changing adv time to max value and setting gapRole_AdvNonConnEnabled to FALSE as said here e2e.ti.com/.../449175

But the best way to do it is to change the flag GAP_ADTYPE_FLAGS_LIMITED to GAP_ADTYPE_FLAGS_GENERAL in the SensorTag.c file.

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Issues with POWER_SAVINGS and removing standby for beacon mode CC2650