Hello!
It is likely that the Spotter is using its power controller to turn the Bristlemouth bus on/off. This is a power saving feature for sensor applications that allows for set sampling times, say a pattern of 5 minutes on every 30 minutes. Turning the power controller off will leave the bus enabled all the time. You can check if it is enabled and turn it off in the Spotter CLI.
To check if it is on you connect to the Spotter USB and type:
bridge cfg get 0 s bridgePowerControllerEnabled
And you should receive a response similar to:
Succesfull status request send
2024-03-05T19:11:47.140Z [BRIDGE_CFG] [INFO] Response msg -- Node Id:0,Partition:system, Commit Status:0
Here we can see that it currently off because the value that is saved is 0: Commit Status:0. If it were 1, the power controller would be enabled.
To turn the power controller off you can use:
bridge cfg set 0 s u bridgePowerControllerEnabled 0
bridge cfg commit 0 s
If you want to see all of the configs, type:
bridge cfg status 0 s
Right now the bridge cfg commands only allow for you to set/get the configs of the Spotters bridge. However, in an upcoming release you will be able to use these commands with any node that is connected to the Spotter.
Hope this helps!