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tomasz90 opened this issue Apr 18, 2025 · 1 comment
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Please add zigbee light sleep if it is feasible #11257

tomasz90 opened this issue Apr 18, 2025 · 1 comment
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Area: Zigbee Issues and Feature Request about Zigbee Type: Feature request Feature request for Arduino ESP32

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Zigbee

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ESP32C6, ESP32H2

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Hi!

I would like to see zigbee light sleep feature in the arduino framework. Me like many of other tinkers would like to use low-powered connectivity, which zigbee should be. Right now, zigbee is not what we wanted to see. It is extremaly power consuming (like 30-80mA) and it is preferibly suitable for passive devices which pings data in defined intervals between deep sleep. Right now, it is for sure not suitable for battery powered devices, nor remotes, nor controllable device.

I saw light sleep example in esp-zigbee-sdk, which I tried to flash, but I found out, that my device is still consuming in range of 20mA instead of declared 0.125mA in Readme, I would not be disappointed if we could talk about consumption in the same order of magnitude, but not 150x more power consuming. Something is broken here, a manual or a code. I would like to see a light sleep functionality in arduino framework, which would be also so much easier to handle than working with esp-idf framework.

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Light sleep, make boards battery friendly.

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I have checked existing list of Feature requests and the Contribution Guide

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@tomasz90 tomasz90 added the Type: Feature request Feature request for Arduino ESP32 label Apr 18, 2025
@SuGlider SuGlider added the Area: Zigbee Issues and Feature Request about Zigbee label Apr 20, 2025
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P-R-O-C-H-Y commented Apr 22, 2025 •
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Hi @tomasz90, light sleep feature is not suitable for Zigbee library in Arduino framework as is. To really save some power, there must be set a config in ESP-IDF libs for RTOS to be in tick-less mode. This setting is not enabled for arduino framework idf libs and enabling that by default may cause unexpected behavior. So for now there is only option to use deep sleep to save the battery power and its mostly usable for any reporting devices like sensors.

If you want to develop a light sleep Zigbee device, please go directly using the ESP-IDF and ESP-ZIGBEE-SDK

@P-R-O-C-H-Y P-R-O-C-H-Y closed this as not planned Won't fix, can't repro, duplicate, stale Apr 22, 2025
@P-R-O-C-H-Y P-R-O-C-H-Y self-assigned this Apr 22, 2025
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