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Never sleep - How to?

PostPosted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 6:01 pm
by FlexSlowly
Hi, ESP8266-01 running as a webserver using Ardino IDE sketch from AdaFruit and a DHT22 sensor and I do not want it to sleep. It is plugged into the mains so I don't care about conserving, I want it avalaible at all times.

It keeps going into deep sleep and I cannot wake it with a browser call.

Code: Select all/* DHTServer - ESP8266 Webserver with a DHT sensor as an input

   Based on ESP8266Webserver, DHTexample, and BlinkWithoutDelay (thank you)

   Version 1.0  5/3/2014  Version 1.0   Mike Barela for Adafruit Industries
*/
#include <ESP8266WiFi.h>
#include <WiFiClient.h>
#include <ESP8266WebServer.h>
#include <DHT.h>
#define DHTTYPE DHT22
#define DHTPIN  2

const char* ssid     = "YourRouterID";
const char* password = "YourRouterPassword";

ESP8266WebServer server(80);
 
// Initialize DHT sensor
// NOTE: For working with a faster than ATmega328p 16 MHz Arduino chip, like an ESP8266,
// you need to increase the threshold for cycle counts considered a 1 or 0.
// You can do this by passing a 3rd parameter for this threshold.  It's a bit
// of fiddling to find the right value, but in general the faster the CPU the
// higher the value.  The default for a 16mhz AVR is a value of 6.  For an
// Arduino Due that runs at 84mhz a value of 30 works.
// This is for the ESP8266 processor on ESP-01
DHT dht(DHTPIN, DHTTYPE, 11); // 11 works fine for ESP8266
 
float humidity, temp_f;  // Values read from sensor
String webString="";     // String to display
// Generally, you should use "unsigned long" for variables that hold time
unsigned long previousMillis = 0;        // will store last temp was read
const long interval = 2000;              // interval at which to read sensor
 
void handle_root() {
  server.send(200, "text/plain", "Hello from the weather esp8266, read from /temp or /humidity");
  delay(100);
}
 
void setup(void)
{
  // You can open the Arduino IDE Serial Monitor window to see what the code is doing
  Serial.begin(115200);  // Serial connection from ESP-01 via 3.3v console cable
  dht.begin();           // initialize temperature sensor

  // Connect to WiFi network
  WiFi.begin(ssid, password);
  Serial.print("\n\r \n\rWorking to connect");

  // Wait for connection
  while (WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED) {
    delay(500);
    Serial.print(".");
  }
  Serial.println("");
  Serial.println("DHT Weather Reading Server");
  Serial.print("Connected to ");
  Serial.println(ssid);
  Serial.print("IP address: ");
  Serial.println(WiFi.localIP());
   
  server.on("/", handle_root);
 
  server.on("/temp", [](){  // if you add this subdirectory to your webserver call, you get text below :)
    gettemperature();       // read sensor
    webString="Temperature: "+String((int)temp_f)+" F";   // Arduino has a hard time with float to string
    server.send(200, "text/plain", webString);            // send to someones browser when asked
  });

  server.on("/humidity", [](){  // if you add this subdirectory to your webserver call, you get text below :)
    gettemperature();           // read sensor
    webString="Humidity: "+String((int)humidity)+"%";
    server.send(200, "text/plain", webString);               // send to someones browser when asked
  });
 
  server.begin();
  Serial.println("HTTP server started");
}
 
void loop(void)
{
  server.handleClient();
}

void gettemperature() {
  // Wait at least 2 seconds seconds between measurements.
  // if the difference between the current time and last time you read
  // the sensor is bigger than the interval you set, read the sensor
  // Works better than delay for things happening elsewhere also
  unsigned long currentMillis = millis();
 
  if(currentMillis - previousMillis >= interval) {
    // save the last time you read the sensor
    previousMillis = currentMillis;   

    // Reading temperature for humidity takes about 250 milliseconds!
    // Sensor readings may also be up to 2 seconds 'old' (it's a very slow sensor)
    humidity = dht.readHumidity();          // Read humidity (percent)
    temp_f = dht.readTemperature(true);     // Read temperature as Fahrenheit
    // Check if any reads failed and exit early (to try again).
    if (isnan(humidity) || isnan(temp_f)) {
      Serial.println("Failed to read from DHT sensor!");
      return;
    }
  }
}

Re: Never sleep - How to?

PostPosted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 6:47 pm
by Barnabybear
Hi, what makes you think it is going into deep sleep?

Re: Never sleep - How to?

PostPosted: Wed Dec 16, 2015 1:07 am
by lethe
The ESP should not enter deep sleep randomly, only if you explicitly call the deep sleep function.
If the ESP stops responding, it may be due to a bug in your code (or the arduino libraries. I would expect a lot more complaints in this case, though).

I did not really check your code, but at first glance: you are checking in gettemperature() whether the read values are NaN, but don't do anything to prevent or fix this. So the subsequent call webString="Temperature: "+String((int)temp_f)+" F"; will cast a NaN and try to construct a String from that...

Re: Never sleep - How to?

PostPosted: Wed Dec 16, 2015 3:03 pm
by FlexSlowly
>> I did not really check your code, but at first glance:

Thanks, but that code is directly from the Adafruit site as are the suggested libraries freshly downloaded. If I cycle the thing on/off with the power it sends fine for about three minutes then the LED goes really dim and that's the last of it until I power cycle it again.

About ready to give up on these flaky things. Been reading lots of reports about them randomly stopping or restarting. Not for me. :)