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Add a way to disconnect the power to the board through GPIO #61

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spiccinini opened this issue Feb 4, 2020 · 3 comments
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Add a way to disconnect the power to the board through GPIO #61

spiccinini opened this issue Feb 4, 2020 · 3 comments

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@spiccinini
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The idea is to provide a way to cut the power to the LibreRouter.

@xcancerberox
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Like a self reset? or like suicide?

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spiccinini commented Feb 6, 2020

Like a self reset? or like suicide?

That functionality is already present through the watchdog that is also available at a GPIO.

This idea is to provide a way for an external board to use a GPIO ot cut the power of the board for longer periods of time. For example when connected to a solar panel and batteries in the night the LR can be turned on like for 2 minute each 10 minutes saving 80% of the battery power (even detecting if there is a station connected and keeping it on longer periods of time).

Ideally the voltage should be provided from the external source and the GPIO work from 3.3 to 24V.

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Ok, so the GPIO is an external GPIO.
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We can add there a PMOS transistor like:
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with the same transistors that we are using for POE.

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