- Tue Oct 11, 2016 12:45 am
#56348
Hi, all!
I'm attempting to make a pretty simple IoT button using the ESP8266 (ESP12E NodeMCU Dev Board) that is 99% of the time in deep sleep mode. The 1% of the time it's active, I want it to reconnect to the network, send a command, maybe flash an LED upon success, and then go back to sleep.
The catch: I want to use a CapSense trigger to activate the wake/connect/send/LED/sleep sequence. I was just recently able to get the CapSense library working on the ESP8266 using the newer V5 update. There's been conversation about waking an Arduino from sleep using CapSense here: http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=306889.0 but I'm a little nervous to try to find/implement an ESP8266 equivalent. Does anyone know how to make this work or if it's even possible at all? (I still don't understand how a processor can check if a CapSense is triggered while sleeping...)
Thank you in advance for your help!
Joshua
I'm attempting to make a pretty simple IoT button using the ESP8266 (ESP12E NodeMCU Dev Board) that is 99% of the time in deep sleep mode. The 1% of the time it's active, I want it to reconnect to the network, send a command, maybe flash an LED upon success, and then go back to sleep.
The catch: I want to use a CapSense trigger to activate the wake/connect/send/LED/sleep sequence. I was just recently able to get the CapSense library working on the ESP8266 using the newer V5 update. There's been conversation about waking an Arduino from sleep using CapSense here: http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=306889.0 but I'm a little nervous to try to find/implement an ESP8266 equivalent. Does anyone know how to make this work or if it's even possible at all? (I still don't understand how a processor can check if a CapSense is triggered while sleeping...)
Thank you in advance for your help!
Joshua
