meshtastic/docs/software/settings/power.md

id	title	sidebar_label
power	Power Settings	Power

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Overview

Power settings on a Meshtastic device can be set like other user-define settings with the --set command see (see Meshtastic-python). Some of these options are implicit in other commands. For example, when you set the device to router mode using is_router true, it is implied that deep sleep is disabled and we want to constantly listen for messages. Below is a list of all user-definable settings and the acceptable values that these settings can use.

For example, if we wanted to disable sleep mode, like when we put the device into router mode, we could use the command:

meshtastic --set mesh_sds_timeout_secs 4294967295

:::note See MAXUINT from mesh_sds_timeout_secs below: :::

For a description and more information on what exactly all of these mean, please refer to Power Management State Machine

Settings

Setting	Acceptable Values	Default
charge_current	MAUnset, MA100, MA190, MA280, MA360, MA450, MA550, MA630, MA700, MA780, MA880, MA960, MA1000, MA1080, MA1160, MA1240, MA1320:	MAUnset
is_always_powered	true, false	false
is_low_power	true, false	false
is_router	true, false	false
ls_secs	integer (seconds)	0
mesh_sds_timeout_secs	integer (seconds)	0
min_wake_secs	integer (seconds)	0
on_battery_shutdown_after_secs	integer (seconds)	0
phone_sds_timeout_sec	integer (seconds)	0
phone_timeout_secs	integer (seconds)	0
screen_on_secs	integer (seconds)	0
sds_secs	integer (seconds)	0
send_owner_interval	integer (sent every x network pings)	4
wait_bluetooth_secs	integer (seconds)	0

:::note When you the following settings to 0 they assume the following defaults:

• ls_secs: 1 hour
• mesh_sds_timeout_secs: 2 hours
• min_wake_secs: 10 seconds
• phone_sds_timeout_sec: 2 hours
• phone_timeout_secs: 15 minutes
• screen_on_secs: 1 minute
• sds_secs: 1 year
• wait_bluetooth_secs: 1 minute :::

charge_current

Sets the current of the battery charger

is_always_powered

Circumvents the logic block for determining whether the device is powered or not. Useful for devices with finicky ADC issues on the battery sense pins.

is_low_power

If set, we are powered from a low-current source (i.e. solar), so even if it looks like we have power flowing in we should try to minimize power consumption as much as possible. YOU DO NOT NEED TO SET THIS IF YOU'VE set is_router (it is implied in that case).

is_router

Are we operating as a router. Changes behavior in the following ways: The device will only sleep for critically low battery level (i.e. always tries to stay alive for the mesh) In the future routing decisions will preferentially route packets through nodes with this attribute (because assumed good line of sight)

ls_secs

Power management state machine option. See the power page for details. 0 for default of 3600

mesh_sds_timeout_secs

Power management state machine option. See the power page for details. 0 for default of two hours, use the MAXUINT or 4294967295 to disable

min_wake_secs

Power management state machine option. See the power pagefor details. 0 for default of 10 seconds

on_battery_shutdown_after_secs

If non-zero, the device will fully power off this many seconds after external power is removed.

phone_sds_timeout_sec

Power management state machine option. See the power page for details. 0 for default of two hours, use the MAXUINT or 4294967295 to disable

phone_timeout_secs

Power management state machine option. See the power page for details. 0 for default of 15 minutes

screen_on_secs

Power management state machine option. See the power page for details. 0 for default of one minute.

sds_secs

Power management state machine option. See the power page for details. 0 for default of one year

send_owner_interval

This sets how often to send the database of node owner information with other nodes in the mesh (per mesh network ping).

For instance the default interval of 4 will send the node owner information for every 4 mesh network pings. This information is also transmitted after the node first boots up.

wait_bluetooth_secs

Wait number of seconds for Bluetooth - Power management state machine option. See the power page for details. 0 for default of 1 minute

is_always_powered

If the device is plugged into the wall (not from battery), you may consider using this setting to always keep the device from sleeping. This is a useful setting if you are on ESP32 and using the Wifi options.

Examples

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meshtastic --set mesh_sds_timeout_secs 0

Note: Probably only want to set the wait_bluetooth_secs this high during testing:

meshtastic --set wait_bluetooth_secs 28800

meshtastic --set is_always_powered true

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