Improve battery during Infinite-ReConnect

[gkoh]

@hijae I had a thought with improving battery life when using Infinite-ReConnect.
The default connect timeout is 30s, this means the device will continuously attempt connect for 30s, thus the duty cycle is effectively 100%.

What if, during Infinite-Reconnect, we reduce the connect timeout to, say, 10s.
And sleep for, say, 10s, this would reduce the duty cycle to 50%.
This should improve lifetime somewhat (although GPS looks like quite a large power sink).

We could adjust the numbers to ensure responsive to the camera going active (ie, you don't want to wait 60s for the next connect attempt).

[hijae]

I think it's a great idea, because I'm using 18650 HAT(M5StickC 18650C) to get more battery life.

[gkoh]

I think it's a great idea, because I'm using 18650 HAT(M5StickC 18650C) to get more battery life.

This one?
https://shop.m5stack.com/products/m5stickc-18650

If so, that's 2200mAh, for a total of 2400mAh.

Just to check our understanding ...
Based on my testing, GPS + connecting uses somewhere around 50-100mA (it seems to fluctuate a lot depending on which phase of the connect is happening).
If we average this to, say, 75mA, you would get ... 32 hours of continuous run.
Have you seen this?

[hijae]

I've used it for about 12 hours straight, but if you need a longer test, I'll do it.

[gkoh]

I've used it for about 12 hours straight, but if you need a longer test, I'll do it.

Not necessary, but thank you for offering.
I was interested in whether the current draw estimates were accurate or even realistic.

I will work on this change, 10 seconds connect, 10 seconds sleep, during multi-connect.