Self-wake-up / a timed DeepSleep requires a tweak? about esp8266_and_arduino HOT 3 CLOSED

Hi Marmachine, I have the same needs as you, to get chaeplins circuitry working with the ability to self-wake. Have you made any progress?

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If its any help I vaguely remember reading that PIR's do get disturbed by wifi. Positioning them corretly..
If you have no need to constantly be connected then I suggest turning off your wifi and have it off untill motion trigger turns it on.

In regards to chaeplins circuit I might have cracked the nut that was bothering us.
It would seem that the resistor R1 and R4 have to high values for a proper negative pulse.

EDIT:

Removed previous "solution", it was faulty, there was still the possibility to externally reset the device while it was running.

This is my new solution, colored, i switch the first transistor in the reset line to a PNP transistor, because I could not use GPIO16 as Chaeplin did, I had to select another GPIO. All GPIOS on the ESP are at 0V when in deep-sleep except GPIO16.

For this circuit to work, the pin connected to the base of the PNP transistor needs to be held high while in operating mode. When ESP goes to sleep the pin will get pulled low, caution though, do NOT write said pin low yourself, that just fired a reset for me.
Do not forget the DIODE between GPIO16 and RST, else GPIO16 will hold rst high when opening reed.

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