[ElectRabbit]

Well.. why is he using the ESP32? That thing is everything but not a low power microcontroller. The use of BLE/Wifi increases the power consumption like crazy.

I've build a solar station with an ESP32 using LoRa module. Even that wasn't much fun as I was forced to keep in light or even deep sleep as often as possible.

An option would be to use a Nordic NRF or STM32WB and use the BLE long range mode.

[KennyBlanken]

Because the two guys involved in this are "social media" expert and a "self improvement coach." Did you read the post? It says things like "you can use UDP but you'll have to adjust your server to use UDP."

This submission was a blatant attempt to boost his blog and in turn his product's website; the whole thing looks to me like a scam.

The other items on the blog are clear keyword-of-the-day click-chasing and this is obviously ChatGPT output: https://khalsalabs.com/the-essence-of-paul-graham-essay-on-h...

One of the authors seems to enjoy using ChatGPT to respond to questions on Quora to spam links to his shitty blog site about dogs. Or this:

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-learnin...

The other guy has a lot of "look at my expensive stuff" and "the secret to success!" videos (and some videos about using AI to make videos...)

The company's website is a joke. Hilariously bad attempts at SEO in the title, the ad copy is littered with grammar mistakes, and so on. "Best canadian dog tracker"...what?

[qazxcvbnmlp]

Yeah, the depth of this post is (first time making a hardware product) not (experienced insider sharing domain knowledge).

[beefnugs]

Keep reading (or dont its simple trash blog spam) but at the end a few words say "we switched to different hardware and bluetooth entirely"

So the title is wrong/clickbait, the contents smell like AI generated garbage (although shorter than I would assume) and it means very little to anyone

[ofrzeta]

Although I have heard about Nordic and STM as power saving devices I have not heard of ESP32 as a power-hungry device. I thought it was possible to go low power with certain sleep modes. For instance deep sleep consumes between 10 and 150 μA, depending on whether the ULP is active or not.