Quiet Hours + Circuit Breaker + Adaptive TX Power
Three new features leveraging the existing SNR/RSSI infrastructure to improve reliability, power savings, and mesh network resilience.
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Quiet Hours — Configurable night-time rate limiting (e.g. 22:00-06:00) reduces forwarding from 100 to 30 packets/min. Saves battery during low-traffic periods. Requires TimeSync.
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Circuit Breaker — Automatically blocks DIRECT forwarding to neighbours with degraded links (SNR < -10dB). Transitions to half-open after 5 minutes for a test packet. Good SNR closes the breaker. FLOOD traffic is never blocked.
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Adaptive TX Power — Dynamically adjusts transmit power (5-14 dBm EU) based on average neighbour SNR. Reduces power when signal is strong, increases when weak.