Been off trialing & negotiating potential new GW sites for BE&C & Warrington communities ready to take some of the new GW’s as well as contributing elsewhere. As well as prepping for an LPWAN/Sigfox/LoRa/LoRaWAN update pitch to a UK industry conf later in the month…
Workbench not idle though!
Took delivery of a handful of these:-
To wireless enable the RAK pilots and some new builds…forgetting of course that as Pilots are Pi3 based WiFi built in so no dongle needed! Still wont go to waste as have Pi 2 builds like this:-
So let me introduce you to Cedric:-
And his cousin Ozzie!:-
Who looks like one fierce Owl by Night!
He is RPi0W based using an early build of one of @charles bds
… unfortunately that thing still use 8mA in deep sleep
There is an ‘always-on’ LED, maybe I can win a bit there…
Edit…
De-soldering the LED brings me to 7mA, not a big win.
Powering the board directly with 3.3v gives a bigger win, I am now at 1.2mA.
I am not keen to remove the LDO, as I won’t be able upload software anymore
Remains the LiPo battery charger, but I am not sure it comes into play here.
I tested one with the U8g2 library with the full framebuffer graphics test example (using the ST7565_64128N() constructor, not UCX1701X() which didn’t work).
IIRC I measured around 260 uA while active and 14 nA in powersave mode (not using the 16 mA backlight). In powersave mode the display content is not visible.
The idea is to have a battery powered device to display some data.
MQTT wouldn’t work as it would be too power hungry.
I store all my TTN data in an InfluxDB database, and I expose a simple REST API to retrieve data.
So the ESP32 wakes up now and then (let’s say every hour), collect data, print them on ePaper and go back to sleep. If fresh data is needed, a button can trigger immediate collection.
ePaper is nice for this application as it doesn’t need power to maintain display
very hard to find single alu Pi backplates, size = 50 x 100 mm (a bit to high for 1HE )
I imported them from a French audio company… very streamlined order process ‘tres bien ’
I don’t know if I make the rack myself or use '10 inch rack materials
Grabbed a few of these on special last month for a remote control/automation on the warehouse/roller shutter in work to keep the warehouse manager happy. He’s always a couple of floors away from the door when the bell rings! Picked up some .mp3 players too for audio warnings. I plan to randomly “leak” qutoes from HAL9000 out of the speaker, just for a laugh! #micorpython#mqtt#nolora
Still wont go to waste as have Pi 2 builds like this:-
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let’s test
