What is an effective way to reduce power consumption?

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Anonymous
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Hello,

In a hands-free application using BLE communication,

What is an effective way to reduce power consumption?

The power save option is not available in my application.

CYW20706 is the main host, so I can't use the deep sleep mode.

And the application is using a periodic timer(several tens of milliseconds),

so I can't use the low power sleep mode.

Please give me some advice on waht to do.

Thank you!

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Anonymous
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Hi Aaron,

When you say 'handsfree' are you referring to HFP? What are you using BLE for?

Have you read this article? CYW20706 – BLE Low Power Beacon

You could use the wiced_sleep_config() API to reduce power consumption but if a applicaiton timer is running always, then I don't think there will be any power reduction.

You should be looking at reducing power by changing Tx power or intervals or slave latency (for BLE).

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Anonymous
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Hi Aaron,

When you say 'handsfree' are you referring to HFP? What are you using BLE for?

Have you read this article? CYW20706 – BLE Low Power Beacon

You could use the wiced_sleep_config() API to reduce power consumption but if a applicaiton timer is running always, then I don't think there will be any power reduction.

You should be looking at reducing power by changing Tx power or intervals or slave latency (for BLE).

Anonymous
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Hi yssu,

Thank you for your reply.

yes, HFP is right.

And BLE uses several services(GATT, Serial GATT, ANCS, etc) to communicate with the smartphone app.

I know the article.

I don't expect to use wiced_sleep_config() API to reduce power consumption,

My application has several periodic timers

So I asked if there was any other way, especially in hfp.

Thank you.

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Anonymous
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There is nothing much you could do to reduce power consumption in an Audio application such as HFP.

You could maybe reduce the Tx power. Apart from this, I cannot think of any ways to reduce the current consumption.

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Anonymous
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Thank you, yssu.

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