setEvent not firing

[stephensaid]

I have this sketch that should fire a setEvent but I'm failing to see what I'm doing wrong. I do not have wifi connection so am setting the time using compileTime().

#include <ezTime.h>

void getTime();
void displayTime();

int w = 10;
String curTime;

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(115200);
  delay(500);

  getTime();

  curTime = dateTime("H:i:s A") + "   ";
  Serial.print("dateTime: ");
  Serial.println(curTime);
  
  Serial.print("now(): ");
  Serial.println(now());

  Serial.print("now() formatted: ");
  Serial.print(hour(now()));
  Serial.print(":");
  Serial.print(minute(now()));
  Serial.print(":");
  Serial.print(second(now()));
  Serial.println();
  Serial.println();

  setEvent(displayTime, now() + w);
}

void loop() {
  events();
}

void displayTime() {
  curTime = dateTime("h:i A") + "   ";
  Serial.println(curTime);
  Serial.println();

  setEvent(displayTime, now() + w);
}

void getTime() {
  setTime(compileTime());
}

This is the output I get:

dateTime: 19:54:23 PM   
now(): 1597002863
now() formatted: 19:54:23

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[stephensaid]

I continued to investigate but am getting nowhere! Although the event is being set, it never fires.

#include <ezTime.h>

void displayTime();

int w = 10;
String curTime;

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(115200);
  while (!Serial) {};

  Serial.println("-- ezTime Test Sketch --");

  setDebug(DEBUG);
  setTime(compileTime());
  setInterval(0);

  curTime = dateTime("l, d-M-y H:i:s.v T") + "   ";
  Serial.print("dateTime:       ");
  Serial.println(curTime);

  setEvent(displayTime, now() + w);
  delay(10);
}

void loop() {
  events();
}

void displayTime() {
  Serial.println("displaying time... ");
  setEvent(displayTime, now() + w);
}

This is the output I'm getting from the above:

-- ezTime Test Sketch --

ezTime debug level set to DEBUG
dateTime:       Monday, 10-Aug-20 20:09:00.000 UTC   
Set event (#1) to trigger on: Monday, 10-Aug-2020 20:09:10 UTC

I really need some help, please.

[ropg]

After staring at it for a while, I cannot see anything obviously wrong with your code. Don't have an Arduino handy right now, but could you print the value of compileTime() as well as nowUTC(false) after printing the time?

I suspect this has something to do with not syncing with NTP, but cannot find anything obvious in the code.

[stephensaid]

Can't use nowUTC(false); it seems! It does not compile: 'nowUTC' was not declared in this scope

This is what I've got now:

#include <ezTime.h>

void displayTime();

int w = 10;
String curTime;

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(115200);
  while (!Serial) {};

  Serial.println("-- ezTime Test Sketch --");

  setDebug(DEBUG);
  setTime(compileTime());

  setInterval(0);

  curTime = dateTime("l, d-M-y H:i:s.v T") + "   ";
  Serial.print("dateTime:       ");
  Serial.println(curTime);

  Serial.print("compileTime: ");
  Serial.println (compileTime());

  Serial.print("now: ");
  Serial.println (now());

//  nowUTC(false);

  curTime = dateTime("l, d-M-y H:i:s.v T") + "   ";
  Serial.print("dateTime:       ");
  Serial.println(curTime);

  setEvent(displayTime, now() + w);
  delay(10);
}

void loop() {
  events();
}

void displayTime() {
  Serial.println("displaying time... ");
  setEvent(displayTime, now() + w);
}

And this is the output:

-- ezTime Test Sketch --

ezTime debug level set to DEBUG
dateTime:       Monday, 10-Aug-20 23:41:11.000 UTC   
compileTime: 1597102871
now: 1597102871
dateTime:       Monday, 10-Aug-20 23:41:11.002 UTC   
Set event (#1) to trigger on: Monday, 10-Aug-2020 23:41:21 UTC

Thanks for looking into this.

[ropg]

Eh, sorry, that's the private function internally. I meant UTC.now()

[stephensaid]

Here's the updated sketch.

#include <ezTime.h>

int w = 10;
String curTime;

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(115200);
  while (!Serial) {};

  Serial.println("-- ezTime Test Sketch --");

  setDebug(DEBUG);
  setTime(compileTime());

  setInterval(0);

  curTime = dateTime("l, d-M-y H:i:s.v T") + "   ";
  Serial.print("dateTime:       ");
  Serial.println(curTime);

  Serial.print("compileTime: ");
  Serial.println (compileTime());

  Serial.print("now:         ");
  Serial.println (now());

  Serial.print("UTC.now:     ");
  Serial.println(UTC.now());

  curTime = dateTime("l, d-M-y H:i:s.v T") + "   ";
  Serial.print("dateTime:    ");
  Serial.println(curTime);

  setEvent(displayTime, now() + w);
  delay(10);
}

void loop() {
  events();
}

void displayTime() {
  Serial.println("displaying time... ");
  setEvent(displayTime, now() + w);
}

Output:

-- ezTime Test Sketch --

ezTime debug level set to DEBUG
dateTime:       Tuesday, 11-Aug-20 19:23:38.000 UTC   
compileTime: 1597173818
now:         1597173818
UTC.now:     1597173818
dateTime:    Tuesday, 11-Aug-20 19:23:38.005 UTC   
Set event (#1) to trigger on: Tuesday, 11-Aug-2020 19:23:48 UTC

[stephensaid]

Hi Wondering if you had the time to have another look, please?

Thanks

[nouc23]

Hi @stephensaid. I occur similar problem. In library, during first events() call all events are cleared. You need to call events() in setup, before you call setEvent