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Put ATmega328 in very deep sleep and listen to serial?
A board we make does this.
The RX pin is wired to INT0
INT0 pin set to input or input pullup depending on how the RX line is driven
On sleep, INT0 low level interrupt is enabled
//Clear software ...
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How best to power down an Arduino for ~5 minutes at a time?
Yes, if you want to wake an ATMEGA (the chip in the Arduino) spontaneously (no outside trigger) from Power Down mode at periodic intervals, the you will need to rely on an interrupt generated by the ...
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Put ATmega328 in very deep sleep and listen to serial?
The code below achieves what you are asking:
#include <avr/sleep.h>
#include <avr/power.h>
const byte AWAKE_LED = 8;
const byte GREEN_LED = 9;
const unsigned long WAIT_TIME = 5000;
ISR (...
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IR Receiver interrupt and arduino sleep mode
This is what I have managed to achieve ...
Library
IRLib - GitHub
Version 1.51 March 2015
Copyright 2013-2015 by Chris Young http://tech.cyborg5.com/irlib/
This library is a major rewrite ...
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How to deep sleep ATtiny/ATmega (to run for years with batteries) but still detect a button press?
ATTINY's are designed to easily do this since they can wake from power down sleep mode by a pin change...
Basically you want to...
Connect a normally-open push button between an IO pin and ground....
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How to generate hardware interrupt in mpu6050 to wakeup arduino from SLEEP_MODE_PWR_DOWN mode?
Well, this code worked. In this code, MPU's INT PIN is Active Low so generates Ground on motion which is than connected to INT0 or arduino UNO pin 2 which generates interrupt and wakes UP the MCU
#...
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Converting a standard setup/loop sketch to a low power application?
This sketch is almost identical to the powerDownWakeExternalInterrupt.ino sketch that comes with the LowPower Library. I'm using INPUT_PULLUP and a N.O. push button switch to trigger it to wake up and ...
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Attiny85 appears to be drawing 0.2mA current but battery running down more quickly
2.9V doesn't sound too bad. See a datasheet for the CR2032 I found:
It looks like slightly more than 2.9V would be the expected voltage for up to 600 hours.
3.2V looks like it is fully charged, and ...
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Arduino Nano Atmega328P not sleeping with either <LowPower> or <avt/sleep.h>
I don't know about the LowPower library. However, four your
avr-libc-based test, you forgot to actually put the device in sleep
mode with sleep_mode():
void loop() {
set_sleep_mode(...
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Power consumption issue. I made project using atmel-328p
You need to first check the individual current consumption of all elements:
pH sensor,
temp sensor,
water flow sensor
xbee.
Since many of these just have an output pin in addition to +V & ...
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error: ‘sleep’ was not declared in this scope
"sleep()" is not a function on arduino. The sleep.h file contains functions for the hardware sleep functionality used to reduce power consumption when processing isn't necessary. "delay()" is the ...
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Sleep mode and months of operation on small battery
Have a read through the Jeelabs blog which documents the author's very successful attempt at making a very low power wireless sensor node that can run for months off coin cells.
http://jeelabs.org
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How to sleep a whole circuit?
The first and most smart solution is to use a switch between the batteries and everything else. This way, you slide the switch in the off position and the whole circuit is completely detached from the ...
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Waking Arduino from sleep by holding button for more than 3 seconds
You won't manage it without external circuitry.
The problem is the Arduino has to be awake to know you held the button for 3 seconds. You can only wake immediately you press the button. However you ...
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ESP.deepSleep() - over and over?
Use a resistor between GPIO16 and RST. I usually use a 470 Ohm resistor. Shorting the pins with a wire does not work.
https://www.esp8266.com/viewtopic.php?t=14350#p64510
Maximum deep sleep is about ...
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Is SRAM erased when putting Arduino into sleep_mode_pwr_down?
Generally, Atmega sleep modes do not erase RAM. Their memory is static and as long as voltage (above 2.7V I believe) is applied, data is held.
However, this also depends on how you plan to wake up ...
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Why does using ESP8266 in deep sleep mode still drain the battery quickly?
The example shows a Sparkfun Thing, which the article notes doesn't have extra peripherals. What you show is something different, like a NodeMCU dev board, which typically has a linear regulator, ...
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Store value in EEPROM to perform different actions on reset?
While it looks interesting as idea, IHMO you have keep in mind:
Include some code for button denouncing logic. Actually you will receive couple of “resets” during ~20ms during button press. Without ...
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Can Arduino go in and out of Sleep or Deep Sleep Automatically?
The Arduino goes into deep sleep when you tell it to. It wakes up when it gets an interrupt. What that interrupt is is (pretty much) up to you.
If you are using an RTC most will have an alarm function ...
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Arduino Leonardo/Pro Micro sleep and USB
The Arduino has several sleep modes. They differ mainly by the clocks
that are kept running, the peripherals that are enabled, and the
possible wake-up sources. All these modes are described in the
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Why does my Arduino keep waking up?
Yes. Arduino's buffered serial output is interrupt-based, in that it uses interrupts to refill the UART transmit register when it runs empty, until the software-managed transmit buffer has been ...
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How to put arduino in sleep mode?
avr/sleep.h is part of the compiler. You don't need to download it.
There are other libraries that act as a wrapper to it to make life easier:
https://github.com/lowpowerlab/lowpower
https://github....
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High power consumption during power down mode
I tried your first sketch on my "bare-bones" board.
With the sketch exactly as written, it used 197 µA.
I wondered why it was that high, so I commented out this line:
Serial.begin(9600);
That ...
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How to keep accurate millis() while using ADC_sleep mode?
Rather than trying to update TCNT0, it might be better to track the number of cycles lost to ADC conversions, and in an intermediate routine – eg, omillis() – compensate for those cycles. [Edit: See ...
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WDT and RadioHead with delay()
The RH_ASK library uses timer0, which is also used for millis and delay.
Quick workaround is to use the standard AVR delay instead.
#include <util/delay.h>
...
_delay_ms(500)
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Can I set pin 13 to output 5v, then put arduino mini pro to sleep?
Given the absence of clarity on the driving state of pins during sleep, consider connecting Pin 13 to an SR Latch or the gate of a MOSFET.
An SR Latch will hold it's output high or low until a high ...
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Can I set pin 13 to output 5v, then put arduino mini pro to sleep?
can a voltage be maintained on a pin for all/any of the sleep modes?
yes.
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Pin change interrupt does not work properly to wake up arduino from sleep mode
Start by checking your calculation of time limits. I see you are mixing signed and unsigned arithmetics - not a very good idea. Check the blink-without-delay example for how to do that.
The ...
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Sleep power down mode with change interrupt
You actually don't need to to worry about interrupts at all for this
project. The IRremote library is itself based on a timer interrupt. As
soon as you irrecv.enableIRIn(), you start receiving a ...
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Use lowpower-libary and still use serial connection and other things
Yes, activating low power does disable the UART - but only while it's sleeping.
To use serial you just need to ensure that you only use it while it's not sleeping - and due to the interrupt and ...
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