Missing feature, sleep mode. about adafruit_bme280_library HOT 7 CLOSED

Related (implements the features you are looking for): #8
Newer PR (improvement of the first PR): #13

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is this still open? I notice that sparkfun already has this for quite some time so I might switch

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in my code I reset the chip after reading the data to reduce power usage
without reset the esp32 + sensor is at about 350µA with the ESP32 in deep sleep
with reset the esp32 + sensor is at about 12µA

a public reset function would be nice

read stuff...
I2Cbus.beginTransmission(BMX280_ADDRESS);
I2Cbus.write(0xE0);
I2Cbus.write(0xB6);
I2Cbus.endTransmission();
sleep

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this functionality is fully tested in master now :). thanks guys!

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@hoffmannjan is this documented somewhere?

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@solars I'll add proper doxygen in this repo next week probably, but for now there is some hints in the code
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_BME280_Library/pull/13/files#diff-35e01fdd369e009c1e031cd9e83dac0bR169
and you can also look at whole comments section at #13

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@solars I'll add proper doxygen in this repo next week probably, but for now there is some hints in the code
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_BME280_Library/pull/13/files#diff-35e01fdd369e009c1e031cd9e83dac0bR169
and you can also look at whole comments section at #13

Please could someone confirm which method to use for sleep mode? Should I be setting MODE_FORCED? If so, where?

Thanks

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