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    Does deepsleep work at all

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      daniel
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      @Camot do you have anything connected to P10? That's the pin used between the LoPy and the deepsleep shield for communication...

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        Camot @jmarcelino
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        @jmarcelino said in Does deepsleep work at all:

        @Camot
        Setting aside the get_wake_status() example for now does a straight up

        from deepsleep import DeepSleep
        ds = DeepSleep()
        ds.go_to_sleep(30)
        

        put the board into deep sleep for 30 seconds?

        don't think so, the board become unresponsive for 50 seconds but heartbeat continues and then it reports

        >>> ds.go_to_sleep(30)                                                                                                  
        Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                                      
          File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>                                                                                   
          File "/flash/lib/deepsleep.py", line 156, in go_to_sleep                                                              
          File "/flash/lib/deepsleep.py", line 105, in calibrate                                                                
        IndexError: list index out of range 
        

        Repeated it 3 times with ds.go_to_sleep(30), alway 50 seconds unresponsive :/

        @daniel
        no, only the Lopy, the deepsleep shield, the antenna and power with a 3.3V Step-Up/Down Regulator on the Lopy 3.3V pin.

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          jmarcelino @Camot
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          @Camot said in Does deepsleep work at all:

          no, only the Lopy, the deepsleep shield, the antenna and power with a 3.3V Step-Up/Down Regulator on the Lopy 3.3V pin.

          That's the problem then, the deep sleep shield only controls - and is powered by - the Vin (labelled 5V) pin not the 3.3V.

          Try applying your 3.3V to the Vin pin instead, the LoPy regulator should enter bypass mode and hopefully the PIC10 and extra circuitry shouldn't be affected too much.

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            Camot @jmarcelino
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            @jmarcelino said in Does deepsleep work at all:

            @Camot said in Does deepsleep work at all:

            no, only the Lopy, the deepsleep shield, the antenna and power with a 3.3V Step-Up/Down Regulator on the Lopy 3.3V pin.

            That's the problem then, the deep sleep shield only controls - and is powered by - the Vin (labelled 5V) pin not the 3.3V.

            Try applying your 3.3V to the Vin pin instead, the LoPy regulator should enter bypass mode and hopefully the PIC10 and extra circuitry shouldn't be affected too much.

            Oh, I have not read it anywhere yet. Thank you @jmarcelino
            It works with 3.3V on the 5V pin at the DS shield. The power consumption goes down to 0.4mA during deep sleep....but more than I have expected. Besides the high deep sleep current, I found something else that's odd. If I put 5v to the 5v pin, the Lopy does nothing. If I put in 3.3v at the same 5v pin, it is starting. And yes, I am using the 5v pin ....first pin right to the heartbeat.

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              jmarcelino @Camot
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              @Camot said in Does deepsleep work at all:

              If I put 5v to the 5v pin, the Lopy does nothing. If I put in 3.3v at the same 5v pin, it is starting. And yes, I am using the 5v pin ....first pin right to the heartbeat.

              Can you explain it a bit better please? Where are you supplying 5V from? Is this with the LoPy inserted into the Deep Sleep shield?

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                Camot @jmarcelino
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                  daniel
                  last edited by

                  @Camot the deepsleep shield has a battery protection mechanism (LiPo batteries get damaged if you discharge them completely), therefore when the input voltage falls close to 3.3V, the deepsleep shield will disconnect power to protect the battery. This threshold voltage can be increased with the set_min_voltage_limit() and enable_auto_poweroff() methods from the deepsleep library. In any case trying to power it with a voltage that is too low won't damage anything.

                  What do you mean with so many hardware bugs? Besides the deepsleep problem that we already acknowledged, and we did our best to compensate with the deepsleep shield, what other hardware issues have you found?

                  Cheers,
                  Daniel

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                    Thosch42
                    last edited by

                    Hi all!
                    I recognized a similar behaviour with my Lopy. The DS-shields arrived yesterdayand I start to work with them. My hardware setup is pretty simple: Expansionboard V2.1A, DS shield V1.0, LoPy, 2000mAh LiPo, attached to the Expansionboard and powered by USB.
                    I start with upgrading a OTAA LoRaWAN node. It work for a while, then it stopped working with:
                    Joined yet!!!
                    Traceback (most recent call last):
                    File "main.py", line 75, in <module>
                    File "deepsleep.py", line 156, in go_to_sleep
                    File "deepsleep.py", line 105, in calibrate
                    IndexError: list index out of range
                    MicroPython v1.8.6-724-g2b9ed601 on 2017-07-28; LoPy with ESP32

                    Cheers,
                    Thomas

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                      chumelnicu
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                      Lopy + DeepSleep Shield after 10-12 cicles of 10 minites deepsleep stop working to0

                      I use deepsleep.py library

                      I really think is one bug with deepsleep function

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                        bucknall @Thosch42
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                        Hi @Thosch42,

                        Could you please share which version on the deepsleep.py library you are using? I think myou might be on an older version of the library.

                        You can find the latest version, here - https://github.com/pycom/pycom-libraries/tree/master/deepsleep

                        Let me know if this helps,

                        Thanks!

                        Developer Evangelist - Pycom

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                          Thosch42 @bucknall
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                          @bucknall It's Version 1.0.0

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                            Thosch42 @bucknall
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                            @bucknall My last pull was yesterday, at app. 9.00 MEST, right after I held my Air Mail Bag from Pycom in my hand ;-)

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                              chumelnicu @bucknall
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                              @bucknall that from your link library i use too.

                              The question is ..Why deepsleep is working 10-12 cycles ..and after that lopy program is stop.
                              I use Lopy+deepsleep sheeld, powered from USB

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                                this.wiederkehr
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                                The relevant lines are:

                                    pulses = pycom.pulses_get(COMM_PIN, 50000)
                                    self.uart = UART(1, baudrate=10000, pins=(COMM_PIN, ))
                                    self.clk_cal_factor = (pulses[3][1] - pulses[1][1]) / EXP_RTC_PERIOD
                                

                                obviously pycom.pulses_get returned a list not compatible with the indexes in pulses[3][1] - pulses[1][1]

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                                  bucknall @chumelnicu
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                                  @chumelnicu Ok thanks for letting me know, I'll investigate this!

                                  Developer Evangelist - Pycom

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                                    chumelnicu @bucknall
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                                    @bucknall Thank you !

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                                      chumelnicu @this.wiederkehr
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                                      @this.wiederkehr And ? Solutions is .. ? :)

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                                        livius @this.wiederkehr
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                                        @this.wiederkehr said in Does deepsleep work at all:

                                        returned a list not compatible with the indexes

                                        What do you mean in "not compatible"?

                                        think about people first, then computers

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                                          this.wiederkehr
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                                          I can only guess from the source as there is no documentation for pycom.pulses_get:

                                          pulses[3][1] - pulses[1][1] should get the time difference from the second to the fourth pulse. If e.g. there is no fourth pulse there will be no list entry for pulses[3] which will result in the error 'IndexError: list index out of range'.

                                          The hacky solution would be to wrap this in a try-except block and retry if there is the IndexError ...

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                                            chumelnicu @this.wiederkehr
                                            last edited by chumelnicu

                                            @this.wiederkehr Ok .. now speak for human beings now please :)

                                            I dont know how to do that. Can you tell me the code line who is supose to fix that ?

                                            Than you ! :)

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