By   October 2, 2015

To address the issue of my temperature reading too high on boards with temperature/humidity sensors, I opted to deploy the ESP system_deep_sleep(us) call to put the board to sleep after publishing the temperature via MQTT.

Current draw when the board boots is 145mA until it connects to the AP, then it seems to go down to about 77mA and then when it goes to sleep, it draws about 55-60uA…

Presently I have it configured to wake up, bind to my AP, after it gets an IP, publishes the temperature/humidity and go to sleep for 30 seconds.

Here is the board:

Here’s a thermal video demonstrating this. At 00:04 and 00:35, you can see the LDO heat up when it wakes up from it’s nap:

Video was taken using a Therm-App android thermal imaging camera borrowed from Angus.