Imp003 Deep Sleep

Hardware
1

I have the imp003 development board, which has the 32kHz xtal.
With the crystal, I thought I would be able to use server.sleepfor().

Example:
imp.onidle(function(){
server.sleepfor(300);
});

But it goes to sleep and never wakes up (and restarts) after 300 seconds. It remains offline and I have to physically reset or cycle power to make it run again.

My goal is to deep sleep, wake up every 5 minutes, check a prox sensor, report it to agent and go back to sleep. Does this not work with imp003 / development board?
Or maybe I’m doing it wrong?

2

So, it’s likely actually sleeping and waking, but when it wakes, it won’t connect unless you ask it to.

If you’re in RETURN_ON_ERROR mode then a connect must be explicit - ie with a server.connect. A server.log will not bring the connection up unless you are in SUSPEND_ON_ERROR mode.

If you still have problems, please post the full code.

3

Thanks Hugo. That answer made me see my mistake. It was actually waking up, but it fell through the functions so fast and went back to sleep I didn’t see it happen. Now I check the sensor and report it to agent, use server log so I can see that it happened, and wait 5 seconds before I sleep again. Now I can see it working. My prox sensor which is always powered draws about 5ma all the time. But making the imp sleep for 5 minutes between reports saves a lot of battery. That is a huge difference.