How to manually awake from deep sleep

[kwiley]

Say I want to run a sensor very rarely, once a day perhaps, using an ESP-01S. Upon waking from deep sleep, the sensor takes its reading, transmits the data to a web server, and quickly goes back to deep sleep. However, if I walk past the device, I want to be able to push a button that manually triggers it (wakes it up and takes a reading). In particular, I want to do this because in addition to transmitting sensor data to the server, the device also gives an immediate indication of its state with the LED, so by pressing a button you get an immediate visual sensor indication regardless of the data being sent to the server.

How would you build something like this? What would the button *do*? The battery will already be connected to VCC and GND, so it wouldn't be a matter of a conventional switch the closes and otherwise open power circuit. I'm not sure how to do this. Would the switch manually raise the IRQ alarm or something to that effect?

Thanks.

[Roberthh]

How about just forcing reset with a button? If that happens only rarely, the few seconds required to boot seem acceptable.

[kwiley]

I did a little digging and it looks like most circuits wire the RST pin to VCC with a resistor and then provide a switch to ground. So, the idea is that the reset pin spends most of its time high, but if you explicitly pull it low with a switch the board suddenly reboots?

[Roberthh]

Yes. The pin also has an internal pull-up, and adding a capacitor between the reset input and GND parallel to the switch reduces bouncing. Value about 100 nF

[kwiley]

So I put a simple momentary switch between RST and GND. It resets the board just fine, but curiously, it still resets with a DEEPSLEEP_RESET as the cause anyway. If I run the following code, which creates the main.py necessary for a proper boot-up and then puts the board to sleep, and if I then press the button before the sleep period ends, I still get the "woke from deep sleep" message.

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a = '''
import machine, time

s2 = machine.Signal(machine.Pin(2, machine.Pin.OUT), invert=True)

# check if the device woke from a deep sleep
if machine.reset_cause() == machine.DEEPSLEEP_RESET:
	for i in range(5):
		s2.on()
		time.sleep(.05)
		s2.off()
		time.sleep(.05)
	print('woke from a deep sleep')
else:
	print('ordinary reset')
'''
with open('main.py', 'w') as f:
	f.write(a)
f.close()

# configure RTC.ALARM0 to be able to wake the device
rtc = machine.RTC()
rtc.irq(trigger=rtc.ALARM0, wake=machine.DEEPSLEEP)

# set RTC.ALARM0 to fire after 10 seconds (waking the device)
rtc.alarm(rtc.ALARM0, 10000)

# put the device to sleep
machine.deepsleep()