iguanair device should stop reporting IR activity after period of inactivity

[IguanaBen]

Reported by seanyoung on 18 Aug 2014 11:57 UTC
If there has been no IR activity for 100ms, the iguanair can stop sending usb packets. This causes unnecessary CPU wakeups and thus battery life on mobile.

Note that most IR receivers work like this, iguanair is the exception here (see linux kernel code, drivers/media/rc/*.c).

Ideally the device would send a last usb packet which specifies it will no longer send IR data until some IR activity has been detected.

[IguanaBen]

Commented by jdunn on 18 Aug 2014 14:15 UTC
This would require some firmware changes, but is a good idea. If we're talking about just the IR data stream I'd agree with it listed as wishlist, but it would be relatively simple as firmware changes go.