Hi all;
This is something I've been working on; a easy way of taking control of the Tab5's power management circuitry from vanilla MicroPython; without needing a special board build.
https://codeberg.org/easytarget/tab5-egpio-micropython
The README there has the full install and usage notes; plus a list of the (30!) methods it provides. This is deigned to be very simple in use; it is self-contained and lets you:
Control power on/off for the WiFi chip, Speaker Amplifier, USB-A port and Expansion port 5V power.
Switch WiFi between internal and external antennas
Enable and disable battery charging, set the quick charge status, read the charge indicator pin.
Read the battery voltage and current in/out.
Detect if headphones are plugged in.
Set LCD backlight brightness
Trigger a poweroff event.
Send reset signals to the LCD, TouchPanel and Camera modules.
Use it to create a power control object and set the device up as you need:
from tab5_egpio import TAB5_EGPIO
tab5pwr = TAB5_EGPIO()
tab5pwr.wlan_pwr_on()
tab5pwr.charge_enable()
# later (let the charge controller settle first)
voltage, current = tab5pwr.battery_status()
print('Battery: {:.2f}V @ {:.3f}A'.format(voltage, current))
There are some demo's in the repo that show how to use this in more detail. And I have a page where I am documenting general hardware related Tab5 micropython information at: https://codeberg.org/easytarget/m5-tab5-micropython
[note: I'm cross-posting this here from the micropython official discussions, since it is specific to the Tab5]
