@Jamin you must have a very keen eye and nimble fingers to accurately select a variable from 0 to 60 with a small slider.
It’s before your time but until recently using Blynk in this way would have crashed your system on a regular basis i.e. send on release is a “new” feature.
I guess we all have our preferences but I did purchase some IOT hardware that does use “2 small menu widgets” to set timers.
Haha well I do agree it is tricky sometimes… but far easier if you dont rely on the time output in the corner of widget and instead on a value being written back. Give it a go sometime or try my sketch above!
@Pavlo, I made a thread a few weeks ago about “Quick Menus” … take a look at Costas image above… I wish all menus looks like those numbers on the timer. Simple swipe up/down or left/right to go through menu items.
lol @costas - yes, it is due to Luddites like me campaigning for improved slider functionality that lead to the ‘send-on-release’ functionality so the slider actually works…
BUT
for OP purposes, surely it only needs 5, 10, 15, 20…55, 60? or even in tens? plants are not that sensitive
@Dave1829 I’m one of those Luddites too but we coded around (debounced) the issue until SOR was added.
You are right, even though we think of time has having 60 minutes to each hour and therefore 60 variables, for the OP’s requirement this could be reduced to 4 variables (15, 30, 45, 60) for the minutes. Even the hours could be cut down from 24 to 4 or 5 (09:00, 12:00, 16:00, 21:00 and 23:00).
for my BBQ monitor, i set my warning temps with +/- buttons,
appliance temp gets increased/decreased in lots of 10 degree C, but food temp trigger is in 1 degrees! (lamb is different to beef is different to chicken!)
For our hardware we have both sliders and buttons to change time duration and temperature settings. Plus menu’s for other stuff. It does use up all 4 tabs and over 11000 Energy units though.
One of our sliders is also a “STEP” for time and temperature changes. So you can change the increments from 1’s up to 60’s (or any number the user prefers).
Our time durations can be from 0 to 1440 (minutes per day) so the STEP makes it much easier to move the big numbers around (tied to buttons and more sliders).
This is all available now in the latest version of Blynk’s app for Android.
It also allows scheduling based on the day of the week and sunset and sunrise times.
All this can be done without stopping the app, which was annoying with the original Timer widget.
It is ok on my Samsung TAB2 10.1 (which I believe are not officially supported) and the DroidX emulator.
The S3 is ok until you add the scheduled days and then the time just becomes scrunched up to something like ---- between the widget label and the days.
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