Power manager module

Use the power manager module to reduce the energy consumption of battery-powered devices. The module achieves this by switching to low power modes when the device is not used for a longer period of time.

Module events

Source Module	Input Event	This Module	Output Event	Sink Module
Buttons module	wake_up_event	power_manager
HID forward module
Motion module
Power manager module
Wheel module
Bluetooth LE advertising module	ble_peer_event
Bluetooth LE state module
HID forward module	hid_report_event
HID state module
HID Service module
USB state module
Source modules for module_state_event	module_state_event
USB state module	usb_state_event
Power manager module	power_down_event
			power_down_event	Sink modules for power_down_event
			wake_up_event	Sink modules for wake_up_event

Note

See the Overview: Firmware architecture for more information about the event-based communication in the nRF Desktop application and about how to read this table.

Implementation details

nrf Desktop uses the power manager module from Common Application Framework (CAF). See the CAF power manager module page for implementation details.