Hello @canmobilities,
The occasional blank cloud message bug should be resolved in the next firmware release (along with an easy-to-use firmware updater client!)
Thank you for the questions you asked. Here are responses, in order:
- Power savings - We are working to release sleep/low-power modes with our production firmware shipment this month. The Snooze library on the Teensy is fantastic, and we’ll try to make our implementation as similar as possible.
- Charging - I’m going to ask @DazzlingDuke to chime in on this one, because I’m focusing mostly on firmware.
- Clock - Yes, the Dash has more RTCs than we even know what to use them for! As the Dash associates with the cellular network, network time is provided to the modem during the association (and in a handshake that doesn’t consume any of the device’s data plan). We are working on syncing the RTC with this time. As RTC is useful in both power saving implementations and proper crypto implementation, this is a dependency of some of the other features that are planned in our stock firmware. You will be able to set/read this value in a similar fashion as on a Teensy using their Time abstraction methods.
- OTA Firmware updates - The firmware that shipped with Beta dev kits does not yet support OTA updates; however, I can say that, over this past weekend, we made significant progress on implementing OTA updates for both underlying system firmware AND user programs. We plan to release a firmware update for the Beta dev kits to add OTA update support when we ship the rest of the dev kits this month.
Thanks,
Pat