I am glad to hear you got it sorted out. Thank you for reporting back.

Thanks
Felix

after your reply (thanxxxs!) I tested again. And this time it worked :-))) I must have messed up your original example code 'til the failure point with my supplements. This time I sticked rigoroulsy to your formulation. Success!

Regarding your literature hints: Thanks again. I had gone through relevant randomnerd tutorials before. That's how "esp_sleep_enable_touchpad_wakeup()" came to my mind... a dead end road as I learned from your remarks. The Espressif sleep docu I have yet to read.

Best,
digs

esp_sleep_enable_gpio_wakeup can only be used for light sleep but not for deep sleep. See ESP32 sleep modes.

If you want to use deep sleep check out this example.

Please also check out this article about different sleep modes.

The sleep functions are not M5Core2 specific. They are functions of the ESP32 so it should work on all devices using ESP32. It is normal for them to be found in esp32 related libraries, but not in the M5Core2 library.

Both my sleep examples have been tested on an M5Core2 (under ESP32 Arduino framework 2.0.4 and 2.0.5), so I am stumped as to why it fails for you.

Could you please post the debug log - hopefully this will shed some light on the reason for the reboot.

Thanks
Felix

meanwhile I tested your proposed solution. Unfortunately, it just lead to a continuous reboot cycle without any sleep state ever reached :-((
Substituting "deep_sleep" for "light_sleep" did not change anything.

Grepping in my Arduino libraries i found "gpio_wakeup_enable" and "esp_sleep_enable_gpio_wakeup" to be declared in various header files under
~/.arduino15/packages/esp32/hardware/esp32/2.0.5/...
~/.arduino15/staging/packages/2.0.4/...
~/.arduino15/packages/m5stack/hardware/esp32/2.0.4
but not under ~/Arduino/libraries/M5Core2....

The CST_INT definition was found under ~/Arduino/libraries/M5Core2...
whereas GPIO_INTR_LOW_LEVEL again only in the ~/.arduino15 branch

Is the multitude of declarations under .arduino15 or the absence from the M5Core2 libraries a potential explanation for failure? Could it be, that your solution works fine with one of the ESP32 development boards but not with the M5Core2?

Appreciating your response.
Best, digs

thanks a lot for the fast reply. i'll try your proposed solution asap. seems i've missed out on this basic solution, although i did quite some search before and never stumbled across such a piece of code. however, i'll get back to you.

have a good day, digs

esp_sleep_enable_touchpad_wakeup(); is meant for when some of the ESP32 GPIOs are used as capacitive touch pads. They are completely different form the M5Core2 touch screen.

Have a look at this example which puts ESP32 into light sleep which then can be woken by touching the screen.

Thanks
Felix