Rich,
vacation was great, thanks for all the good wishes !
ideally the Wait state (atmega in IDLE, RFbee in WOR) would be the default state, however WOR is less stable than Receive (else TI would certainly have done the same thing 
) I’d rather leave the decision to the user.
Hibernate is a tricky thing, because it will only work with external interrupts and basically requires additional custom coding (e.g. like Andy’s project)
thats why I’m a bit reluctant to put such functionality in the default firmware. The hints are there so if some one wants to customize (like Andy did) the pointers are there. Same goes basically with the whole watchdog thing. If one really wants to go this route then it’s imho much more easy to write custom code than trying to create a command structure to capture this behaviour.
There seems to be a bit more life in Firmata again, so I’m waiting for them to come with an updated version which we can run via serial and radio. That would be nice for a 2.0 firmware and might make hibernate and sleep via firmata commands instead of AT commands.
IDLE is indeed a bit of strange beast as TX does basically the same, so yes we could ditch IDLE.
@Icing: what do you think about removing IDLE mode ?
Cheers,
Hans