If you would be so kind does anyone know of a simple timer example that you can point me to? I’ve tried quite a few examples and haven’t had any luck because the are all older. What I’m trying to do is pretty simple, turn on a light every day at 6AM and turn it off at 10PM using RTC. Thanks so mu…

You may want to look into this [image] Battery saving help Getting Started Actually I would not check for a specific hour alone. Imagine what is if your device wakes up between 3am and 9am for some reason? Then the device would not go back to sleep or if this happens at 2…

Thanks for that Scruff I didn’t think of that. The system is never asleep as I have it doing things pretty much 24/7. Would you recommend that I use local time that is synced every 24 hours or so? Thanks again! Peace, EJ

[image] DailyTimerSpark library added Libraries I spend a lot of time on presence simulation projects that do things like turning on/off various things in our home at seemingly random times. The classic example of this use case is an indoor or outdoor light that comes on …

Thansk for responding Lowell, I was working with your library for a few hours last night and didn’t have much luck. I love the concept of the library, it’s priceless for home security. Basically I was trying to get the D7 onboard LED to turn on and off and couldn’t figure out what I was doing wron…

[image] Learjet: DailyTimer timer1(1, 24, 1, 30, EVERY_DAY, FIXED); Your timer is set to start at 1:24 AM, are you testing at that time, or are you accounting for the offset from UTC? If I set my time zone, and set the timer to a time a few minutes into the future, I see the D7 LED go on and …

Good Lord… Thanks Rik, that’s probably the issue, I hadn’t thought of Daylight Savings. Peace, EJ

[image] Learjet: Thanks Rik, that's probably the issue, I hadn't thought of Daylight Savings. the example you posted includes a web hook for obtaining your Time Zone. but for simple testing, you could just use Time.zone() in setup().

Like an idiot, I never set the Time Zone on my device so I tested it at UTC and it worked just like it should, thanks for your patience! Peace, EJ

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