The current state of this project is refinement.  I have the physical and electronic design complete and have been tweaking the code.  I am using Platform IO for development and now need to reduce the time it takes to connect to the wifi router.  With the current code it does not always connect after waking from deep sleep because of the limit I created on the number of attempts to reduce battery drain.  Hopefully using static IP and setting the channel will decrease the time it takes to connect.