ESPHome device go online every 5 minutes, do an action and disconnect

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I have an ESPHome device that i want to connect to wifi every 2 minutes, get some values from HA, reply that received the values and then disconnect the wifi until the next 2 minutes.
I have done a lot of searching but the fact that the device is disconnected make the whole process difficult…
I would like to do something like:

interval:
  - interval: 120s
    then:
      - wifi.enable:
      - delay: 40s
      - service: switch_service
        variables:
          my_state: bool
          my_number: int
          my_string: string
        then:
          - lambda: |-
              if ( my_state ) {
                  id(relay).turn_on();
                  ESP_LOGD("custom", "STATE ON curTime: %s", my_string.c_str());
              }
              else {
                id(relay).turn_off();
                ESP_LOGD("custom", "STATE OFF curTime: %s", my_string.c_str());
              }
              api.template("my_string_sensor").send_state("i received the value");
      - wifi.disable:

What is the best way to do that?
I guess i could use MQTT also, but according to documentation, the api is preferred (although going offline causes many problems).

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Would deep sleep work for your application?

Some of the ESPHome deep sleep features make this sort of thing a little easier.

Tracking data updates is still a little clunky in my opinion though.

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Unfortunately i cannot use deep sleep because I use Sonoff s26 that hasn’t the wiring for wake up

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