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How to physically interact with an Rnode ?

RNode

Started by tukan ·

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I have flashed a few LoRa boards with an Rnode firmware.

That works.

On those boards there are typically 2 buttons : a reset button and a user button.

I have figured out two things while interacting with them :

  • a short press on the user button toggles bluetooth on / off
  • a long press on the user button probably turns off the screen ?

I am wondering how to turn off the rnode completely in order to save battery life when not in use.
Is the long press on the user button only turning off the screen or is it turning off the entire rnode ?

Are there any other physical interactions with the rnode ?

(if there is some documentation about it that I missed please point me to it)

Thanks. Tukan.

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I will just note that a long press also sometimes turns off and on bluetooth but then also shows the pin code for it. I think a 5 second hold turns it off and 10 second turns on bluetooth with the pin or something like that.

But yea I can confirm it does just turn the whole thing off (or at least makes it stop working as an rnode). If you just want to turn off the screen to save on power but still have it running you can do rnodeconf {devicePath} -D 0 to turn off the screen completely or rnodeconf {devicePath} -D 64 if you just want it to be much less bright.

tukan 8dab5fc052de8a96...

That's wonderful ! Thanks.

tukan 8dab5fc052de8a96...

I have just tried to hold the user button for more than 10 seconds and it enabled the wifi AP, where I could connect to the RNode bootstrap console.

OLIVE GARDEN 50c5efb74b3d0e31...

The rnodeconf -D setting does not work on my T114 on 1.8.6 firmware

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