Connection woes II

I want to conduct a test over the weekend, specifically aimed at draining battery power!

I'm fairly sure that if no listeners are actively "listening" (that is, not requesting data from registers) then the board will save a lot of power in regards to transmitting data.

If the board doesn't take up much 'juice' in this idle state, then why not create a daemon process that is just connected to the board, but leaves it in the idle state. then any programs can query the daemon for the board and attach listeners, then the board starts sending stuff again.

Sounds like a hacky fix!