Disable TCP keepalives to avoid constantly waking iOS devices #36
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I've also noticed an increased battery usage of the Apple Home app on iOS 17. Thanks for your pull request. |
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It looks like Go has adopted 15s TCP keepalives as a default for _all_ TCP connections, which is quite dumb if you ask me. golang/go#48622 For the HAP server's side, it degrades iOS battery life significantly by waking the device every 15s to respond to these packets. In the case as a normal MQTT client, it increases traffic on top of the 60s keepalive we've already set at the application layer. In both cases, the solution is to just explicitly disable TCP keepalives. Upgrade hap to the latest version that contains the fix brutella/hap#36.
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I noticed that my iPhone battery life has been quite bad after deploying a HAP server, and under Battery Settings during an idle period it says "Home - 100%". Running
tcpdumpshows that after the initial connection, Linux starts sending TCP keepalives every 15s or so, and the phone always answers. I believe this is keeping the phone (and also my iPad) awake.HAP specifications section 6.2.3 also mentions this case specifically:
This patch prevents keepalives from being sent out, and I've verified that it's quiet now when there's no changes/updates to HAP states.