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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