Using light switches when network unavailable

[Anthony101]

Thanks for the reply. I found this that you helped with:

Beehive connected

If you look at the void loop you’ll see that it only executes once, as the last line of the void loop puts the device to sleep. That code could be in void setup and have an empty void loop and it would work exactly the same way. The ESP8266 code has actually moved-on quite a bit since the version that @christophebl has posted here, as he realised that Blynk.begin was causing problems if the device wasn’t able to connect to Wi-Fi, or Blynk, for any reason. The ESP was constantly trying to connec…

I Have done the following:

void setup() 
{

  Serial.begin(9600);
  //Ethernet.begin(mac, ip);
 // Blynk.begin(auth, "blynk.cloud", 8080);

    Blynk.config(auth, "blynk.cloud", 8080);  // Initialise the Blynk connection settings
    Blynk.connect();   

  
  pinMode(3, OUTPUT); //relay 1
  pinMode(5, OUTPUT); //relay 2
  pinMode(6, INPUT_PULLUP ); //shed1 light switch
  pinMode(9, INPUT_PULLUP ); //shed2 light switch


    
   timer.setTimeout(3600000L, [] () {} ); // dummy/sacrificial Function timers with ID 0 cannot be turned on/off
   timer.setInterval(500, Timer); 



}

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

  timer.run();
}

I can now get into the timer, but Blynk doesnt connect