Raining when deep_sleep

[qnixAVA]

Hello I'm building my solar weather station, but i'm stuck. I wanted to know if anyone got an idea to wake up the esp32 when the rain bucket works.
I manage to wake up my ESP every time I switch on my rain gauge, but the wake-up time is too long for the precipitation to be added to my rain_meter. When my esp woke up, the rain meter already gone high

If anyone got solution..

Thanks a lot

[teamsuperpanda]

I'm sure you have solved it by now but if you haven't...
As the board will be asleep you could do several things based on Home Assistant and the deep sleep timer:

• Wake it up more often to quickly check and wait say 30 sec or 1 min for the bucket to tip. If the bucket tips then turn off deep sleep bool.
• Use a third party weather provider in Home Assistant and if it is raining then turn off deep sleep.

If it is mission critical that the board is awake ASAP then maybe use the bucket pin to wake it up:
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[qnixAVA]

Hello, thank you for your reply, I did indeed succeed, although it's not extremely precise.
I use the GPIO of my rain gauge as an alarm clock, with a binary sensor with delayed_on 10m. In the event of heavy rain, the esp will be woken by the rain gauge and as long as the binary sensor remains on, deep_sleep is prevented. This solution works in the event of heavy rain, but the 0.3mm of rain on waking will never be counted in the counter...
Thanks for your answer.

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[teamsuperpanda]

I'd be curious to have a look at the code if you have it handy

[qnixAVA]

script:

• id: consider_deep_sleep
  mode: queued
  then:
  • delay: 30s
  • if:
    condition:
    or:
    - binary_sensor.is_on: prevent_deep_sleep
    - binary_sensor.is_on: GPIO13_rain
    then:
    - logger.log: 'Skipping sleep, per prevent_deep_sleep'
    - deep_sleep.prevent: deep_sleep_control
    else:
    - deep_sleep.enter: deep_sleep_control
  • script.execute: consider_deep_sleep

binary_sensor:

• platform: status
  name: "esp32stationmeteo_status"

• platform: homeassistant
  id: prevent_deep_sleep
  name: "Prevent Deep Sleep"
  entity_id: input_boolean.prevent_deep_sleep

• platform: gpio
  id: GPIO13_rain
  pin:
  number: GPIO13
  mode: INPUT_PULLUP
  inverted: True
  name: "Rain Meter GPIO13"
  filters:

  • delayed_off: 10min

deep_sleep:
id: deep_sleep_control
run_duration:
default: 30s
gpio_wakeup_reason: 30s
sleep_duration: 120s
wakeup_pin:
number: GPIO13
inverted: true
mode:
input: true
pullup: true

[exetico]

@qnixAVA : Are you happy with the solution? I'm considering ordering the MS-WH-SP-RG (I don't need the other things). Here I primary thinks about the deep-sleep logics you've implemented.

Another solution would be to have another chip counting the "pulses", with extreme low power consumption, and just reading the output of that, instead.