(solved) unable to enter deep sleep

[mzimmers]

Hi all -

I'm attempting to enter deep sleep mode when the following conditions are met:

1. Line power is removed (running on battery)
2. Battery voltage drops below a certain threshold.

I'm successfully invoking the code below:

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    esp_sleep_pd_config(ESP_PD_DOMAIN_RTC_SLOW_MEM, ESP_PD_OPTION_OFF);
    esp_sleep_pd_config(ESP_PD_DOMAIN_RTC_FAST_MEM, ESP_PD_OPTION_OFF);
    esp_sleep_pd_config(ESP_PD_DOMAIN_RTC_PERIPH, ESP_PD_OPTION_OFF);
    esp_sleep_pd_config(ESP_PD_DOMAIN_XTAL, ESP_PD_OPTION_OFF);

    ESP_LOGI(TAG, "shutdown(): entering deep sleep.");
    vTaskDelay(1);
    esp_deep_sleep(0xffffffffffffffff);

And here's what happens:

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I (4289) PowerMgr: shutdown(): entering deep sleep.
I (12) boot: ESP-IDF v3.1-dirty 2nd stage bootloader
I (12) boot: compile time 10:05:01

What could be waking me up? I don't want anything but line power to wake me up, and I'm not restoring line power in my testing.

[mzimmers]

Well, I managed a workaround. Evidently the esp_deep_sleep() routine doesn't like the value 0xffffffffffffffff, and it ends immediately. I tried this instead, and it works:

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    const uint64_t SLEEP_TIME = (uint64_t) 0x7fffffffffffffff;
    esp_deep_sleep(SLEEP_TIME);

Perhaps somewhere in the ESP internals, the uint64 is being treated as a int64?

Doesn't really matter to me, as 0x7fffffffffffffff microseconds is still a very very long time.

[WiFive]

https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/bl ... des.c#L426

[mzimmers]

Bam. Should we alert someone to modify the docs (or the software)?

[WiFive]

I guess docs could be updated since a 63-bit value is ~300 millennia but other users may try "sleep forever" as max(uint64_t). If you don't want to wake up by timer then you could call esp_deep_sleep_start instead.