Battery powered motor actuator?

[waspie]

I am new to mysensors. I tried some searches but didn't find an answer.
I am currently using some ESP controllers to open/close registers/dampers and was looking to maybe battery power them using mysensors to eliminate a bunch of wires.

Can mysensors remotely wake a node when a message is sent to it? i'd be using a pro mini or sensebender with nrf24.

It seemed to me that when the arduino is put to sleep the radio sleeps too so I'm leaning toward this not being possible?

[mfalkvidd]

@waspie yes that is correct. The power consumption of the nrf24l01+ is 12.6mA in listen mode which will consume the battery too fast.

If you can tolerate a delay, using smartSleep can be an option. https://www.mysensors.org/download/sensor_api_20#sleeping

[waspie]

@mfalkvidd thanks. I did start to see some stuff about smart sleep. In my brief but if finding stuff I think I pieced together that when the controller (oh2.4) sends something the gateway holds onto it until the node checks in?

[mfalkvidd]

@waspie almost. The gateway does not store anything though. Storage is handled by the controller.