Hi all,
I was hoping someone can help me with my project. At the moment my sketch works, and values are updating correctly on my Blynk app. My problem is trying to save some power.
I’m running a nodeMCU with a GSM800L and a JSN-SR04T distance sensor…also running on battery. The app sends values to Blynk successfully and the NodeMCU sleeps for as long as I set it, but while the nodeMCU sleeps, the light on the SIM800L still blinks…I wanna know if there is a way to save more power? My sim800 DTR pin is connected to pin 10 (read this is needed to activate sleep mode on the sim800L. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
#define SIM800_TX_PIN 12
#define SIM800_RX_PIN 13
#define TINY_GSM_MODEM_SIM800
#define SONAR_NUM 2 // Number of sensors. Change to suit your requirements.
#define PI 3.1415926535897932384626433832795
#include <ESP8266WiFi.h>
#include <TinyGsmClient.h>
#include <BlynkSimpleSIM800.h>
#include <SoftwareSerial.h>
#include <NewPing.h>
#define uS_TO_m_FACTOR 60000000 // Conversion factor for micro seconds to minutes
#define SerialMon Serial
//#define SerialMon2 Serial
// Time to sleep (in minutes):
const int sleepTimeM = 10;
char auth[] = "3a585bcf0xxxxxxa8189e3624579e12";
char apn[] = "";
char user[] = "";
char pass[] = "";
const int MAX_DISTANCE = 225; //max distance to measure
const int Diameter1 = 182; //internal Diameter of tank 1 in cm
//const int Diameter2 = 182; //internal Diameter of tank 2 in cm
const int Depth1 = 220; //total depth of tank 1 in cm , from sensor to base inside
//const int Depth2 = 220; //total depth of tank 2 in cm, from sensor to base inside
const unsigned int Period = 60000; //period between pings, in milliseconds. i.e 1 munute = 60,000. max 65535. Want longer? use unsigned long
const int PingPin1 = 5; // GPIO5, D1
const int EchoPin1 = 4; // GPIO4, D2
const int Area1 = PI * ((Diameter1 / 2) * (Diameter1 / 2)); //area of base of tank 1
int Litres1, Distance1, WaterDepth1; // WaterDepth2, Litres2,Distance2;
#include <SoftwareSerial.h>
SoftwareSerial SerialAT(SIM800_TX_PIN, SIM800_RX_PIN);
TinyGsm modem(SerialAT);
BlynkTimer timer; //config timer
NewPing sonar = NewPing(PingPin1, EchoPin1, MAX_DISTANCE); // Each sensor's trigger pin, echo pin, and max distance to ping.
void sendSensorReadings()
{
//***********Readings Tank 1
Distance1 = sonar.ping_cm(); //get distance to the top of the water tank 1
if (Distance1 >= Depth1 || Distance1 == 0 ) Distance1 = Depth1; //check it does not go negative
WaterDepth1 = Depth1 - Distance1; //calculate the depth of the water
Litres1 = (Area1 * WaterDepth1) / 1000; //calculate the volume of the water in litres
//***********SEND INFO TO BLYNK
Blynk.virtualWrite(V1, WaterDepth1); //send depth to Blynk server
Blynk.virtualWrite(V2, Litres1); //send litres to Blynk server
Blynk.virtualWrite(V3, Litres1 / 10); //send litres to Blynk server. for vertical level widget & chart,
//scaled to 1/10 as Blynk only goes up to 9999 and we need up to 16000
delay(50);
digitalWrite(13, HIGH); //flash the LED on D7, just to let us know it's running
delay(50);
digitalWrite(13, LOW);
//************************* can be commented out, test use only
Serial.println();
Serial.println();
Serial.println("Tank 1 water distance: " + String(Distance1)); //print depth
Serial.println("Tank 1 water depth: " + String(WaterDepth1)); //print depth
Serial.println("Tank 1 Litres: " + String(Litres1)); //print litres
//Go to sleep
ESP.deepSleep(sleepTimeM * uS_TO_m_FACTOR, WAKE_RF_DEFAULT); // Sleep for 5 Minutes
}
void setup()
{
WiFi.disconnect();
WiFi.mode(WIFI_OFF);
WiFi.forceSleepBegin();
delay(1);
timer.setInterval(Period, sendSensorReadings); // Setup a function to be called every n seconds
delay(10);
Serial.begin(9600);
delay(10);
SerialAT.begin(57600);
delay(3000);
Serial.println("Initializing modem...");
modem.restart();
Blynk.begin(auth, modem, apn, user, pass);
String modemInfo = modem.getModemInfo();
SerialMon.print("Modem: ");
SerialMon.println(modemInfo);
String ip = modem.getLocalIP();
SerialMon.print("IP: ");
SerialMon.println(ip);
pinMode(10, OUTPUT);
digitalWrite(3, HIGH);
SerialMon.println("AT+CSCLK=4");
}
void loop()
{
Blynk.run();
timer.run(); // Initiates BlynkTimer
}
