feat(power): 1Hz chunked light-sleep; meter backoff; log throttling

- Replace delay() with light_sleep_chunked_ms() in sender idle path
  (100ms chunks preserve UART FIFO safety at 9600 baud)
- Add ENABLE_LIGHT_SLEEP_IDLE build flag (default: on, fallback: =0)
- Meter reader task: exponential backoff on consecutive poll failures
  (METER_FAIL_BACKOFF_BASE_MS..MAX_MS) to reduce idle Core-0 wakeups
- Configurable SENDER_DIAG_LOG_INTERVAL_MS (5s debug / 30s prod)
- Configurable METER_FRAME_TIMEOUT_CFG_MS, SENDER_CPU_MHZ
- New PlatformIO envs: lowpower, 868-lowpower, lowpower-debug
- Add docs/POWER_OPTIMIZATION.md with measurement plan and Go/No-Go

include/config.h

@@ -71,6 +71,31 @@ constexpr bool ENABLE_HA_DISCOVERY = true;
 constexpr bool SERIAL_DEBUG_MODE = SERIAL_DEBUG_MODE_FLAG != 0;
 constexpr bool SERIAL_DEBUG_DUMP_JSON = false;
 constexpr bool LORA_SEND_BYPASS = false;
+
+// --- Power management (sender) ---
+// Light-sleep between 1 Hz samples: saves ~25 mA vs active delay().
+// UART HW FIFO is 128 bytes; at 9600 baud (~960 B/s) max safe chunk ≈133 ms.
+#ifndef ENABLE_LIGHT_SLEEP_IDLE
+#define ENABLE_LIGHT_SLEEP_IDLE 1
+#endif
+constexpr bool LIGHT_SLEEP_IDLE = ENABLE_LIGHT_SLEEP_IDLE != 0;
+constexpr uint32_t LIGHT_SLEEP_CHUNK_MS = 100;
+
+// CPU frequency for sender (MHz). 80 = default, 40 = aggressive savings.
+#ifndef SENDER_CPU_MHZ
+#define SENDER_CPU_MHZ 80
+#endif
+
+// Log-throttle interval for sender diagnostics (ms). Higher = less serial TX.
+constexpr uint32_t SENDER_DIAG_LOG_INTERVAL_MS = SERIAL_DEBUG_MODE ? 5000 : 30000;
+
+// Meter driver: max time (ms) to wait for a complete frame before discarding.
+// Lower values recover faster from broken frames and save wasted polling.
+constexpr uint32_t METER_FRAME_TIMEOUT_CFG_MS = 3000;
+
+// Meter driver: backoff ceiling on consecutive frame failures (ms).
+constexpr uint32_t METER_FAIL_BACKOFF_MAX_MS = 500;
+constexpr uint32_t METER_FAIL_BACKOFF_BASE_MS = 10;
 constexpr bool ENABLE_SD_LOGGING = true;
 constexpr uint8_t PIN_SD_CS = 13;
 constexpr uint8_t PIN_SD_MOSI = 15;

include/power_manager.h

@@ -9,4 +9,5 @@ void power_configure_unused_pins_sender();
 void read_battery(MeterData &data);
 uint8_t battery_percent_from_voltage(float voltage_v);
 void light_sleep_ms(uint32_t ms);
+void light_sleep_chunked_ms(uint32_t total_ms, uint32_t chunk_ms);
 void go_to_deep_sleep(uint32_t seconds);