• Ok, after a bunch of messing around I figured out what's been giving me trouble. In the process, I've learned a few things, but now have a bunch more questions... hehehe.

    1) Is it true that the gyro is the more "power hungry" part of the IMU vs the accelerometer?

    2) The puckjsv2-accel-movement module puts the accel/gyro sensor in a low power mode mostly by turning off the gyro, correct? Why does it put CTRL1_XL to 12.5Hz?

    3) Would you be willing to make some more comments about the sleep() and wake() functions in the code?

    function wake() {
      digitalPulse(LED1,1,10); // indicate awake red
      timeStationary = 0;
      advCounter = 0;
      Puck.removeAllListeners('accel');
      Puck.on("accel", onAccel);
      Puck.accelOn(26); // 26Hz
      Puck.accelWr(0x11, Puck.accelRd(0x11)|0b00001100); // scale to 2000dps
    }
    
    function sleep() {
      digitalPulse(LED2,1,10); // indicate sleeping green
      var last = getTime()+2;
      Puck.removeAllListeners('accel');
      Puck.on('accel',function(a) {
        if (getTime()<last) return; // ignore events while accelerometer settles
        require("puckjsv2-accel-movement").off()­;
        wake();
      });
      require("puckjsv2-accel-movement").on();­
    }
    

    4) For instance, in the sleep() function, why run puckjsv2-accel-movement.off(), then wake(), then puckjsv2-accel-movement.on() in that order?

    5) I seem to be seeing some lag in the gyro output immediately after waking from sleep(). Is that to be expected? Does the gyro take a moment to turn on after being shut off with Puck.accelWr(0x11,0);?

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