🔒 MicroPython on a Pico - what is "sleep"?

[obtuse parrot]

I'm trying to really understand what machine.lightsleep(), machine.deepsleep() and possibly what time.sleep() means on that device. The official docs and a chatbot are not satisfying my interest in the matter.

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[uncut iris]

time.sleep is a standard python library that allows your code to stop being processed for certain period of time

I'm sure there should be documentation

I can't find much documentation on those functions....

[obtuse parrot]

Yep. I have used time.sleep() before for pausing the logic of some code. A chatbot, with their foibles, suggested looking into that function too when I was diving into the MicroPython's docs in a parallel discussion with it. My primary interest is in power saving and didn't think the time.sleep() would do much to address that interest. But it was put in this thread's original post just to "be sure".

[uncut iris]

ohh light sleep is a function that will make the raspberry goes to sleep mode where it will disable the CPU function to the minimal while keeping the state of the ram

deep sleep on other hand will disable everything as much as possible

[obtuse parrot]

So the docs would indicate. It leads me to wonder how to test the power saving and therefore if the change in power consumption exists.

[uncut iris]

I never used those micro computers/micro controllers so idk lol I'm just reading docs

[obtuse parrot]

Appreciate your attention, but I thought my post gave the impression that I was looking for a greater understanding of the sleep functionality than is found in the docs.

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