ESP8266 and widget Time Input

Need Help With My Project
1

Hi everyone, I’m trying to use the Time Input widget to turn on a led but I’m having a lot of difficulties.
Using both the timer and the eventor I can make the project work but I can not get the On / Off function from the Time Input.
I can read the time set by the serial monitor but I can not figure out how to read the On / Off command from the widget.

[19518] Connected to WiFi
[19518] IP: 192.168.1.230
[19518] Blynk v0.4.0 on NodeMCU
[19518] Connecting to blynk-cloud.com:8442
[19623] Ready (ping: 0ms).
Start: 16: 46: 0
Stop: 16: 48: 0

as you understand, I’m not a programmer.

Thanks for your help

2

Hi, you must include your code too… you must attach a virtual pin to the widget… and with BLYNK_WRITE(VX) you can know when the time changes… you are trying to make a scheduler with only a time input widget?

Time input widget let you enter a time or an interval… you must check actual time, compare with start and stop time… and do led on/off manually…

3

Thanks, below the code to read the Timer Input set V1, at the On-Off event I would like to pilot a Led connected to pin D5 (GPIO14) …

/* Comment this out to disable prints and save space */
#define BLYNK_PRINT Serial

#include <SimpleTimer.h>
#include <ESP8266WiFi.h>
#include <BlynkSimpleEsp8266.h>

char auth[] = “xxx”;
char ssid[] = “xxx”;
char pass[] = “xxx”;

BLYNK_WRITE(V1) {
TimeInputParam t(param);

// Process start time

if (t.hasStartTime())
{
Serial.println(String("Start: ") +
t.getStartHour() + “:” +
t.getStartMinute() + “:” +
t.getStartSecond());
Digital.Write
}

// Process stop time

if (t.hasStopTime())
{
Serial.println(String("Stop: ") +
t.getStopHour() + “:” +
t.getStopMinute() + “:” +
t.getStopSecond());
}

void setup()
{
// Debug console
Serial.begin(9600);

Blynk.begin(auth, ssid, pass);
Blynk.syncAll();
}

void loop()
{
Blynk.run();
}

4

you must use the ```cpp for post your code like this:

this is a code formatted block

Time input isn’t an alarm input… you must compare actual time with star/stop times… and do the trick

The on/off was made by the eventor… you simply erase the eventor and you want to get the same results?

5

You have to include RTC widget and compare now time to start and stop time

http://docs.blynk.cc/#widgets-other-rtc2

6

I would have liked to use the Time Input as the Timer widget.
Is it possible to write the times read by the Time Input in the Timer via code widget?

7

Describe what the “timer” is for you…

if you want make a scheduler you must have a start time, a stop time, know the actual time (with a RTC for example) and after check the time-range you are do the led on/off

an “old finger” isn’t equals to a “gold finger” so a “time widget” isn’t equal to a “timer widget”

You must make your own by yourself

8

If you see the operation of the Blynk Timer widget you do not need to write code or check the time with RTC, because you can directly associate a digital pin to the On / Off event.

So I wanted to use the Time Input widget interface to recreate the Timer widget event but I can not tell if this object can return the event’s On / Off value.

As you can see from the print screen of the serial monitor I can get the set time, I would need to detect a 1/0 value to the On-Off event of the Timer Input …

9

I think now i understand you… you wants to change the timer widget star/stop times using a time input widget?

If you ignore the time input widget and simply put the correct values at timer widget with pin=V0 for example… you can do this:

BLYNK_WRITE(V0)
{
 digitalWrite(PinLed,param.asInt());
}