I am working with an Argon in a solar powered audio artwork. The device sleeps for a minute between actions using System.sleep(D2, RISING, 55) and every hour or so a system status will be published. Occasionally the sleep seems to ‘skip’ completely, ie it appears to go to sleep (LED off) but immedia…

What is a known ‘feature’ is that the RTC on the Gen3 devices is really not that reliable or accurate. I have a small mesh network of sleepy end-nodes (Xenons) and I have had to add an external RTC (DS3231) to each so that the time stamping of mesh publishes is correct - otherwise it is all over the…

Hmmm, yes a ‘feature’ @armor . The accuracy isn’t a concern for this application, but the reliability is. I will be using the Argon as the gateway for a sleepy mesh of Xenons. Hoping to avoid the cost and complexity of RTCs. You may not notice the skipped sleep cycles (and it took me days to track …

Thanks @Fragma . Unfortunately I am on a tight deadline and relying on the sleep function to conserve energy. I haven’t noticed the high power consumption during sleep that you observed.

Correction @Fragma , I have noticed this high power consumption!! When driving the Argon with a bench top power supply (which shows the current) it was indeed running at 80 mA once the first Particle.connect was established and after the Argon had gone to sleep. In my case it was rectified by adding …

@AndrewS , @Fragma , it seems there is an issue: [avtolstoy] [gen3] hal: fixes early wakeup by RTC from STOP sleep mode by avtolstoy on 12:53PM - 31 May 19 UTC 1 commits changed 2 files with 24 additions and 2 deletions.

Thanks @peekay123 , I take it that means the issue is being addressed (with an ugly fix so far). When might this make it through to a release OS ? Days or weeks? I suspect the Serial1 issue mentioned is also causing my other problems, but I seem to have eliminated that by using Serial1.end() before…

Perhaps using one of the RTC Featherwings will do the trick? [image] DS3231 Precision RTC FeatherWing - RTC Add-on For Feather Boards A Feather board without ambition is a Feather board without FeatherWings! This is the DS3231 Precision RTC FeatherWing: it adds an extremely accurate I2C-i…

Hi guys! I am experiencing the same issue with Argon and Device OS 1.4.4. I looked over the community but I couldn’t find any recent information on this case. Are you familiar with what is causing it and is the only solution to turn off the wifi manually with wifi.off(). Even with wifi.off() I am ge…

Sleep[STOP] is intermittently missed and millis() wrong with Argon

Troubleshooting

Fragma June 2, 2019, 4:30pm 2

Interesting, I've seen similar but never tracked it like you have. There's some known issues with Argon sleep, might want to disable until they get resolved. Perhaps the fix to that would also resolve your issue.

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Sleep[STOP] is intermittently missed and millis() wrong with Argon

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