# Deep sleep balenafin **URL:** \ **Category:** Project help\ **Tags:** raspberrypi3\ **Created:** [December 28, 2021, 8:46am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/deep-sleep-balenafin/350702 "2021-12-28T08:46:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![luca1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/919ad9/32.png) [@luca1](https://forums.balena.io/u/luca1)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2021, 8:46am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/deep-sleep-balenafin/350702/1 "2021-12-28T08:46:37Z")
Hi, I’m looking for a best way to move my balenafin with cm3 in sleep mode. Any suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![anujdeshpande](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/anujdeshpande/32/3155_2.png) [@anujdeshpande](https://forums.balena.io/u/anujdeshpande)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2021, 9:03am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/deep-sleep-balenafin/350702/2 "2021-12-28T09:03:40Z")
Hi We have a coprocessor on the balenaFin which you can use to put the Fin to sleep. Some of my colleagues have created a block to help with such things. For example see [fin/02-usage.md at master · balenablocks/fin · GitHub](https://github.com/balenablocks/fin/blob/master/docs/02-usage.md#rest-api) In the above example you will see a REST endpoint that you can use to put the Fin to sleep. May I ask what application you are working on? Are you thinking of running the Fin off a battery? ---
**Author:** ![luca1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/919ad9/32.png) [@luca1](https://forums.balena.io/u/luca1)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2022, 2:51pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/deep-sleep-balenafin/350702/4 "2022-01-03T14:51:30Z")
I’m running a balenafin 1.1.1 with a cm3 module with 8gb with raspbian 0.1.0 installed, when trying to build the docker image i run out of disk space ---
**Author:** ![phil-d-wilson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/phil-d-wilson/32/3730_2.png) [@phil-d-wilson](https://forums.balena.io/u/phil-d-wilson)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 8:28am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/deep-sleep-balenafin/350702/5 "2022-01-05T08:28:49Z")
Hi, You can add the pre-built block to your docker-compose file with this reference: `balenablocks/fin:latest` - you then won’t need to build the image. If you’re not using docker on the device then you’ll need to use the flasher to ensure you have a known version of firmata flashed to the co-processor: > then you can use firmata to sleep the device: > ---
**Author:** ![luca1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/919ad9/32.png) [@luca1](https://forums.balena.io/u/luca1)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 6:13pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/deep-sleep-balenafin/350702/7 "2022-01-05T18:13:06Z")
Hi, thanks for your help. I just create a simple docker-compose.yml with this content version: “2.0” volumes: fin: services: fin: restart: always image: balenablocks/fin:latest network\_mode: host privileged: true volumes: - “fin:/data/firmware” labels: io.balena.features.supervisor-api: “1” io.balena.features.balena-api: “1” environment: - “DEBUG=firmata,flasher,downloader,supervisor,eeprom,main” - “AUTOFLASH=1” - “AUTOCONFIG=1” expose: - “1337” If I try to get device sleep I will not get response curl -X POST [http://localhost:1337/sleep](http://localhost:1337/sleep) -H ‘Content-Type: application/json’ -d ‘{“sleepTime” : 4, “sleepDelay” : 1}’ If I run curl -X GET [http://localhost:1337/version](http://localhost:1337/version) {“fin”:11,“firmata”:{“firmataName”:"",“firmataVersion”:"",“implementationVersion”:""},“block”:“3.6.0”} curl -X GET [http://localhost:1337/firmware](http://localhost:1337/firmware) {“firmataName”:"",“firmataVersion”:"",“implementationVersion”:""} Any suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![phil-d-wilson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/phil-d-wilson/32/3730_2.png) [@phil-d-wilson](https://forums.balena.io/u/phil-d-wilson)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 10:16am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/deep-sleep-balenafin/350702/8 "2022-01-06T10:16:49Z")
Hi again, Are you still running on rasbian, and is this device being used with balenaCloud? It looks, to me, from the output of the firmware endpoint like the co-processor has not been successfully flashed with a version of firmata, and so will not be able to sleep the board. Looking at the code, there is balenaCloud-specific functionality that may stop the flashing process from succeeding if it fails: > Furthermore, the block assumes it can contact the supervisor that runs on all balenaOS devices, in order to reboot the device once the flashing process has finished. I don’t currently have a balena Fin available that I can run Raspbian on to test - and this block does not seem to be supported on non-balenaOS devices. I think your options are: - move the device to balenaOS if possible - use the block source code to make your own scripts to flash and sleep the device - raise an issue in the block GH, and ask the maintainer if they intend on supporting non-balenaOS applications. Phil ---
**Author:** ![luca1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/919ad9/32.png) [@luca1](https://forums.balena.io/u/luca1)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 10:44am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/deep-sleep-balenafin/350702/11 "2022-01-06T10:44:34Z")
Hi Philip, Yes the device running on raspbian, but it’s not connected to balenaCloud. Maybe this block not working on raspbian ---
**Author:** ![ntzovanis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/ntzovanis/32/1150_2.png) [@ntzovanis](https://forums.balena.io/u/ntzovanis)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 1:28pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/deep-sleep-balenafin/350702/12 "2022-03-09T13:28:44Z")
Hi @luca1 , As Phil mentioned, this block was intended to be used with balenaOS, so it is likely that it doesn’t work on Raspbian. I’ve created a [GitHub](https://github.com/balenablocks/fin/issues/59) issue on the repo for the maintainers to take a look. In the meantime, you can try the OS-independent solution that consists of: - Installing firmata on the co-processor by following the instructions in this repo: [GitHub - balena-io-hardware/balena-fin-coprocessor-firmata: firmata firmware for the BGM111 co-processor on the balenaFin](https://github.com/balena-io-hardware/balena-fin-coprocessor-firmata) - Running the [Sysex command](https://github.com/balena-io-hardware/balena-fin-coprocessor-firmata#power-down-0x01) directly to put the fin in sleep mode. Cheers, Nico.