Digging the power features!
Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2018 11:27 pm
I take it powerVoltage shows battery voltage * 1000, and powerCurrent shows milliamps?
Seems very accurate - I wrote a little Arduino program to dump voltage and current values, and you notice immediately when you fire up the camera over VNC!
Any thoughts on what the critical low voltage value is? Was thinking of writing a simple battery monitor routine that flashes the mainboard LED when voltage goes below a certain level.
I'll leave the program running for a while and see how long it takes for the battery to run down. (Can't leave it plugged in to USB since it will charge from that port... and of course, the moment I plug in to check battery, it will report the input voltage...)
Seems very accurate - I wrote a little Arduino program to dump voltage and current values, and you notice immediately when you fire up the camera over VNC!
Any thoughts on what the critical low voltage value is? Was thinking of writing a simple battery monitor routine that flashes the mainboard LED when voltage goes below a certain level.
I'll leave the program running for a while and see how long it takes for the battery to run down. (Can't leave it plugged in to USB since it will charge from that port... and of course, the moment I plug in to check battery, it will report the input voltage...)