Proper setup with external lipo battery

[billyjoker]

Hi, i have read some issues related with the power consumption and i have no clear how to do a well setup to use the Adafruit with a battery. I did some tests with "standard" code but i see that the lipo batt is drained too fast, so my questions are below:

• Should i send a command code from my controller device (Android phone) to set the Adafruit as some as a "standby mode"? I mean if exists something like power off and power on by BT commands. I do not if it is the called as "sleep mode" and "wake up"

• Should i add delays in the loop code in order to have less consumption? I've read some tips here

• Exists any convenction to proceed when the lipo batt is almost empty? i mean, advice to the user when batt is under 5%

• When i put the charger, the lipo batt will be recharging automatically? Or maybe i should to manage something programatically.

I am newby using this Adafruit device and i need some patterns to start working well with it. Thanks in advance

[hathach]

For questions please post it to our support forum, you may want to check out other power related issue comment #51 #165