Power consumption

[tmk]

Power consumption

[technomancy]

I've noticed that my board becomes unresponsive for a second or so every so often when I'm using it with my low-voltage Thinkpad (X200s) on battery power; could it be related to this? No issues when on AC power or on any other laptops I've tried. I feel like it must be something specific to this firmware because my ErgoDox (using Blazak's firmware) doesn't exhibit this problem. I'm using the "atreus" build in my fork, if it's relevant: https://github.com/technomancy/tmk_keyboard/tree/atreus/keyboard/atreus

Any suggestions for things to try would be appreciated.

[tmk]

Hmm, it seems like your keyboard sleeps in suspend mode to save power in low battery.
My suggestions:

1. Try to stop power down of common/suspend.c(build with NO_SUSPEND_POWER_DOWN)
2. See difference in low-battery between build with LUFA and PJRC stack
3. Look into how ErgoDox implements suspend mode and port it to tmk

[technomancy]

Thanks. I actually played around with commenting out some of the features in the Makefile (BOOTMAGIC etc) and that seems to have helped. I got rid of a bunch of them; I'll see if I can narrow down which one specifically is responsible.

[technomancy]

I may have spoken too soon; while I was able to get rid of the cutting out after disabling some features, I played with it a bit more to try to figure out which ones in particular were causing trouble, and now I can't get it back to the fully-working state even with all of them disabled again. So it might have been a fluke. I'll take a look at some of your suggestions; thanks.

[technomancy]

Looks like NO_SUSPEND_POWER_DOWN did the trick; thanks!