ESP8266 Community Forum

- Sat Feb 11, 2017 2:06 pm #62412 The ESP8266-01?

You can...if you have some decent soldering skills, attach the GPIO16 pin from the SMD chip to the RST pin.
Option 2 is say using a small MCU, like an ATTiny85 to provide a route to ground (via a transistor say) to reset the ESP8266-01. The Attiny85 uses very little power in Watchdog mode and can be used as "waking timer".

- Sat Feb 11, 2017 4:56 pm #62419 I suppose I'll have to ask some of my college ECE techs and see if they can help me solder that on Monday... I don't have any flux, nor the tip or ability to do so right now... Dang. Thanks!

Has anyone done this before? What sized soldering iron tip did you use?

- Sun Feb 12, 2017 3:41 pm #62468 All you need is a normal fine tip solder iron, some practice with soldering and a steady hand. I killed the first board I tried, the second is working fine.

It is easier if you use a very thin wire (more easily bent to the exact right position). Solder to the RST pin first, then to the SMD chip.

- Sun Feb 12, 2017 5:01 pm #62476 and if you really just short gpio16 to rst with a wire you won't get happy at all.
Just use board search on "deep sleep" or at least read this thread:
viewtopic.php?f=160&t=13625