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- Fri May 22, 2015 1:43 pm #18189

Thanks for your helpful reply. What is the lowest current consumption the ESP8266 can be in when it is idle and connected to an AP? Is that a specific state to be in? Something like deep sleep?

esp sdk have light sleep and modemsleep option for ap connected power save.
i measured 1-2ma in light sleep but its not stable. its changing . 1-2ma to 40ma for connected ap.

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- Sat May 30, 2015 3:31 am #18936

I didn't tested it myself.

In a way I did. Using nodemcu lua firmware rather than the naked SDK. It made a significant improvement to connect time. However, I find that establishing a connection to the AP is a lengthy process by itself.

- Sat May 30, 2015 4:13 pm #18986 Watching mine on a serial terminal it takes about 5 seconds

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- Sat May 30, 2015 7:06 pm #18996 For me, using nodemcu lua fw, I get these timings. 'wake' is timer at the very start, 'network' when status 5 reached.

Code: Select all                         wake  network
512KB module (-01, -07)  0.29s 1s
  4MB module (-201)      0.29s 3s
  4MB module (-12)       0.6s  3.3s

The esp-201 is unusual in having a fast flash(*) but slow WiFi connection.

cheers

(*) slow flash shows as slow wakeup and very slow file access. One esp-12 was fast until a fw flash when it became slow, I still do not know what changed this but I assume some parameter or autodetect.