CM5 Power Consumption / Runtimes

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Increasing run-time

i did my own take on this, but made it in bash #!/bin/bash brightness=$(cat /sys/class/backlight/backlight@0/brightness) maxBrightness=$(cat /sys/class/backlight/backlight@0/max_brightness) if (( $1 > 0 )) then if (($brightness+$1 < $maxBrightness)) then echo $(($brightness+$1)) > /sys/class/backlight/backlight@0/brightness; else echo $maxBrightness > /sys/class/backlight/backlight@0/brightness fi; else if (($brightness > …

Battery Compartment Clearance?

Uconsole is set to land Tuesday. I’m going to get it and take some measurements and see how my 21700 battery holder fits. If I do not have any luck, I will definitely pay for shipping from Australia. Right now I’m a little torn. I love the Aluminum back because I have some ideas for heat sinking the CM4 but then I have the issue of the bigger batteries fitting and the poor wireless performance. Best case scenario, my heatsink idea can be implemented as I have it in my head and the 21700 batter…