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by eternityforest 1321 days ago
Yeah and that's probably why IoT devs absolutely crank up the data rate and spew dozens of Bluetooth advertising packets in the air for no apparent reason, probably significantly reducing battery life that could have been 5yrs, for applications that really don't need instant response.

Something like msgpack might be able to compress ints to some degree since it can represent them as smaller data types.

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Thank you for the msgpack reference.