Battery drains if WiFi is not available or working #1
Description
Subject of the issue
Battery drains fast if the WiFi is not available or the WiFi connection is not working.
Affected versions
- v1.0
Steps to reproduce
Turn off your WiFi for a while and check the battery voltage or percentage before and after.
Expected behaviour
Battery drain should be reduced, if WiFi is not available or not working, the device should not try to reconnect to the WiFi every 5 minutes. Instead it should go to sleep for a longer time between reconnect-tries and resume to normal operation if the WiFi is working again.
Actual behaviour
When WiFi is not available, the battery drain is around 3.75% per day (under normal operation it is 0.5% per day). That's because the device tries to connect to the WiFi every 5 minutes until a connection timeout occurs.