Ref my posting here about an outdoor, solar-powered setup, I’m wondering if there’s a way to turn down power consumption as much as possible. I noticed the screen does come on every now and then, which is completely wasted. Can that be turned off? Any other things than can be turned off or tuned?
As you say, it is possible to turn off the screen, but the device does need to reboot and reset occasionally (esp. when installing updated firmware) and so will default to ON in that case until you turn it off (by pressing and holding the button).
We are looking into the possibility of changing the default so that screens will turn off after a period, but this is not yet available as we will need to review whether this is the right approach before updating the firmware.
Unfortunately there is nothing else to ‘tune’ or change. This is already a small load and the majority of the power is used by the chips that are running constantly to analyse the images taken by the camera, as this is the core purpose.