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[alinouriani]

Hi!
I have a project in which we are logging data from the movement of old patients using IMU.
I cannot have a battery larger than 1Ah since it will become heavy and big to carry around for the patients.
I need to somehow extend the battery life to 5 days. right now it only works for max 2 days.

One solution that came to my mind and I think could be a good feature on OLA is to sleep and wake at specified times during a day. (using RTC).
For example, I need to log data for 6 hours of the day from 9 AM to 3 PM and the OLA could go to sleep at other times and save battery. This could be a great feature for projects that there is no access to the board to turn it off. Is that easy to implement?

Thanks!

[PaulZC]

Hi @alinouriani,

Can you please raise this as a "Feature Request" issue on GitHub?
The issues page is here:
https://github.com/sparkfun/OpenLog_Artemis/issues
Here is a recent example:
https://github.com/sparkfun/OpenLog_Artemis/issues/42

Please include details of how often you want the OLA to log the IMU readings when it is "awake".

Best wishes,
Paul

[alinouriani]

Okay, I have raised an issue on GitHub
Thanks.