ESP-NOW
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Interestingly, this guy shows a method for "powering down" an esp8266 to a 3ua current consumption, as opposed to the commonly known 20ua current consumption:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_A_8Y4xNx8I'm not sure how that compares to completely turning off all power to the ESP8266 and then later restoring it. Does the ESP8266 startup faster if fed 3ua instead of completely disconnecting it? Or is the startup time the same?
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Interestingly, this guy shows a method for "powering down" an esp8266 to a 3ua current consumption, as opposed to the commonly known 20ua current consumption:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_A_8Y4xNx8I'm not sure how that compares to completely turning off all power to the ESP8266 and then later restoring it. Does the ESP8266 startup faster if fed 3ua instead of completely disconnecting it? Or is the startup time the same?
@NeverDie I would sure hope it would be faster, otherwise no point in doing it. You can change the circuit so that the ESP8266 doesn't even have power unless it gets an external trigger. From the video this needs some kind of external trigger either way.
I would have to test it to be sure, but it sounds like it's booting fresh each time, so I don't see how it could be faster.
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Old topic, I know. Did anything ever come of this?
I'm also thinking it would be easy & cheap to get the espnow working as a transport layer.
I found this: https://www.mysensors.org/apidocs-beta/classESPNOW.html
But it goes above my head and abilities when it comes to code.
