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Mikael Nordman <oh2aun@gmail.com> writes:
> The ESP is quite power hungry. Almost 0,5 - 1 Watt used all the time.

Any idea what is going on with that?  Crappy wifi implementation?  Bad
software?  Tons of mobile phones have wifi without using anywhere near
that much power with it on.  I linked in another post to a possible
alternative to the 8266, but I haven't tried either one yet.