It seems that when I put the P1 into sleep mode and when it wakes, it now automatically turns on the wifi and connects to the cloud before I can put it back to sleep.
Did the sleep functionality change with5.0rc1?
My sleep functionality at 0.4.9 was it would sleep for 6 sec wake up to check a few pins (while keeping the wifi off) then immediately going back to sleep.
Yes, the sleep behavior changed. If the cloud connection was active before sleeping, it will be re-instated before returning from sleep. This is more consistent than the previous behavior. If you don’t want the cloud available, then you can call Particle.disconnect() before sleeping.