We have a multiprotocol project running BLE and Zigbee Stacks. The device always operate on BLE, but Zigbee is optional. The project is developed using NCS with zephyr revision v2.4.99-ncs2. Zigbee can be enabled or disabled writing to a BLE characteristic. The device is configured as a Zigbee Endpoint
Zigbee stack is started with those lines of code:
zb_af_register_device_ctx(&device_context); zb_set_ed_timeout(ED_AGING_TIMEOUT_64MIN); zb_set_keepalive_timeout(ZB_MILLISECONDS_TO_BEACON_INTERVAL(3000)); zb_set_rx_on_when_idle(ZB_FALSE); zigbee_enable();
When zigbee stack is searching network, the device is consuming around 15 mA, and after successful steering it lows down to 100 uA. If Zigbee is enabled, consumption is OK, but when Zigbee is disabled, and no network is available, the device keeps consuming 15 mA forever.
My questions are:
¿How can I disable the Zigbee stack on runtime, and avoid the consumption part due to zigbee functions?
alternatively
¿Is there a way to simulate a network join, without having a real network, so that the Zigbee EP thinks it is connected and the consumption keeps on 100 uA?
Even if we decide not to execute zigbee_enable at start up, the fact of having CONFIG_ZIGBEE=y consumes around 1 mA. So that not enabling zigbee at start up, is not an option.
Any help will be appreciated, thanks,
Jordi
