Deepsleep-Mode

ESPHome
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I am happy that my first ESP32 project will work, but now I want add in my code a deepsleep mode. Goal: send automatic the temperature every hour and then fall into a deep sleep :wink:

because I am a newbie, so it’s not so easy to follow the tutorial…so I would ask for some support what code I have to add for the deep sleep mode

esphome:
  name: officetemp
  platform: ESP32
  board: esp32dev

wifi:
  ssid: "mySSID"
  password: "myPass"

  # Enable fallback hotspot (captive portal) in case wifi connection fails
  ap:
    ssid: "Officetemp Fallback Hotspot"
    password: "myPass"

captive_portal:

# Enable logging
logger:

# Enable Home Assistant API
api:
  password: "myPass"

ota:
  password: "myPass"

sensor:
  - platform: dht
    pin: GPIO5
    temperature:
      name: "Living Room Temperature"
    humidity:
      name: "Living Room Humidity"
    update_interval: 30s
    model: DHT22
2

While I am a newbie like you, I have found this snippet to work. However, deep sleep also causes you to no longer be able to update your FW over wifi, unless you have fairly long wake modes. I ended up removing it because of this. Would be much more useful I think when powering devices from batteries.

deep_sleep:
  run_duration: 6s
  sleep_duration: 1min

This will sleep for one minute, wake up, send data then back to sleep for one minute.

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To use deep sleep you need to use MQTT and you need to remove API. Then you need to create the MQTT sensors in HA manually.

Check this post for information.