solar charge while asleep

bhouseski

Does the PowerFeather charge when asleep? Specifically I am testing this with ESPHome, and would like to set a deep sleep state of three minutes, with a 10 second wakeup time to gather data and such. Will the PowerFeather charge my batter with a solar panel when in a deep sleep state?

powerfeatherdev

bhouseski Charging is handled by the charger IC, so should work even if the ESP32 is in deep sleep (as long as you enabled charging before deep sleep).

bhouseski

ok good to know. we haven't had any sunny days since I uploaded ESPhome to the PowerFeather so I have not been able to test much.